Colorful Aurora Over Iceland!

The distinctively fluted surface and elongated hills in this image in Medusae Fossae on Mars are caused by wind erosion of a soft fine-grained rock. Called yardangs, these features are aligned with the prevailing wind direction. This wind direction would have dominated for a very long time to carve these large-scale features into the exposed rock we see today. The image was acquired at 15:25 local Mars time on June 28, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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An image of a fresh crater on Mars! The crater spans approximately 30m (100 ft) in diameter and is surrounded by a large, rayed blast zone. Because the terrain where the crater formed is dusty, the fresh crater appears blue in the enhanced colour of the image, due to removal of the reddish dust in that area.

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The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus.

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When an asteroid or other object impacts the surface of a planet, material that was originally beneath the surface is thrown up and out causing scenes like this image captured by NASA’s Mars orbiter. Source: NASA

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A shot caught by Mars Rover showing a crumbling layered butte on Mars.

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.

Here is a coloured snapshot of Saturn's North Pole from the Cassini spacecraft.

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Here is a great shot caught by the Hubble Telescope showing Uranus and its Moons in enhanced colour. 

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Wonderful image of a rocket powering through the clouds taken back in 2011.

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UV Spectrograph of Mars!

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