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What surrounds us is brilliant.

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"What an astonishing thing a book is..."

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Stunning view of the Earth...taken with a 121 megapixel camera...the most detailed image to date.

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Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104) viewed edge on by Hubble. Located in the constellation Virgo, 28 million light years from Earth, and spanning 50,000 light years across.

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A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012.

by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

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As spotlights play on the rocket and launch pad at dusk, the last moon shot, Apollo 17, is pictured here awaiting its December 1972 night launch.

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Astronomy Art. Pioneer 10 looking back at the sun from Neptune's orbital distance.

Stephen Hawking and Jane Hawking

lunar eclipse

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Rhea is the second largest of Saturn’s moons at 1,528 kilometers across.

The Tinker Bell Triplet - 3 merging galaxies...

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Beautiful shot of the LMC (Large Magellanic Cloud) - seen in the southern hemisphere

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I never get tired of the Crab Nebula

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Amazing image of Jupiter taken in infrared Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) prototype mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope

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wondering what else is out there on a daily basis

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Astronomers have created a super high resolution topographic map of the moon.

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NASA STS-131 Launch.

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This nebula-like cluster is so bright, so rich with star-like objects at the center it looks like a celestial cloud. I thought, maybe this is a section of space, magnified, telescoped and possibly viewed through a fish eye lens. But is it really? Click through to the full article to find out! Whatever it is, it was photographed by Norwegian photographer Christoper Jonassen.

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Children of the Stars by James Neeley

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Giant moon on the beach

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M31 Andromena, M32, M110 galaxies

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Jupiter and Io

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Assortment of Hubble photos

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Milky Way arched Night © Pignotti Maurizio

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Man. How could you not be interested in/want to fund outer-space research. Our universe is so beautiful and interesting.

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NASA announced today that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to today's announcement).

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Oreo Phases of the Moon

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from Mother Earth

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The Milky Way, as seen from Namibia.

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Sun sun sun

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Brandy Urrutia This is a great picture

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Ddrops Company So convincing. Well done.

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DoSouth.com Great shot!

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Jescika alves Amazing!

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Wow, this is incrediable!

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Dark side of the moon.

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Reminds me of the statue of liberty for some reason.

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