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Space Shuttle "Discovery" April 17,2012

The Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Final Launch seen from a commercial plane window, captured by Stefanie Gordon

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Jupiter and Venus

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Milky wat over Jakcson Lake

Endeavour is silhouetted against the layers of Earth's atmosphere

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The space shuttle Endeavour rushes past Earth while docked to the International Space Station

amazing

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beautiful

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LOVE! transporting the shuttle on a 747

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the sun will become a red giant in about 5 bill years

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Jupiter From Hubble Space Telescope

indicates that an asteroid that hit Jupiter

planets

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jupiter

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Europa. Jupiter's ice moon (life under ice?)

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universe diagram

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our solar system scale

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antares

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the relative scale is mind blowing

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supernova remnant

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supernova remnant

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The synthesis of the heavy elements is thought to occur in supernovae, that being the only mechanism which presents itself to explain the observed abundances of heavy elements.

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horse head orion nebula

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edge of orion nebula

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Eagle nebula pillars

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galaxies evolve

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"early galaxies" and the spirals "late galaxies."

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black hole

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massive black holes at the centers of galaxies tend to 'light up' with radiation as galaxies merge.

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Milky Way's churning center. Astronomers believe there is a supermassive black hole in the galaxy's core, visible here as a bright white spot.

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big bang expansion

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physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. so fascinating.

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Stephen Hawking circa 1963 looks like my Great Uncle Al Miller.

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