A Runaway Star lights The Flaming Star Nebula In This Cosmic Scene. Otherwise Known As IC 405, The Flaming

The amount of trackable objects currently orbiting Earth. These include satellites and are mainly referred to as forms of space debris.

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Moonrise from space taken at the ISS!

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This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, named the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

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Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet. It is also the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System. The image shows the stunning diversity of Europa’s surface geology. Long, linear cracks and ridges crisscross the surface, interrupted by regions of disrupted terrain where the surface ice crust has been broken up and re-frozen into new patterns.

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NGC 6302, also called the Bug Nebula, Butterfly Nebula, is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius. The structure in the nebula is among the most complex ever observed in planetary nebulae.

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Victoria is an impact crater on Mars located at 2.05°S, 5.50°W in the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars.

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A high resolution photo of Venus.

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This illustration shows an alien planet named OGLE-2007-BLG-349 orbiting a pair of red dwarf stars. It was originally thought that the exoplanet may only have one sun according to astronomers. However, the Hubble Space Telescope has found a second star.

A subsurface ocean lies deep within Saturn's moon Dione, according to new data from the Cassini mission to Saturn.

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A close up view of Saturn's north polar hexagon.

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