A Fiery Sunset Seen By An Astronaut Aboard The International Space Station looks Toward The South Atlantic.

Here is the Cat’s Eye Nebula (aka NGC 6543) taken from Hubble. It is one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen. Planetary nebulae form when Sun-like stars gently eject their outer gaseous layers, creating amazing and confounding shapes as seen in the image.

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Ancient layered rocks on Mars appear in pale whitish and bluish tones. The various colors and tones of the rocks record changes in the composition of the sediments.

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Star formation in the tadpole nebula. Dusty emission in the Tadpole nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Auriga.

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Photograph of Earth below Saturn's rings taken by the Cassini spacecraft.

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Sharpless 129 is an H-alpha emission nebula commonly called the Flying Bat Nebula located in Cepheus very close to the famous IC 1396 (the nebula that contains the Elephant's Trunk). The large blue/green nebula inside it, which is over a degree long, is formally known as Ou4 but is colloquially called the Squid (or Giant Squid) Nebula.

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Wonderful shot of the Milky Way taken in Canada!

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Great image of the Kolhar Dunes on Mars!

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Great snap of Phobos (the largest of the two natural satellites of Mars) hovering over the planet itself.

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Truly great view of the Earth taken from the International Space Station.

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