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Fantastic Space

Everything beautiful about the sky above (or below), what's in it, and the machines that take (or took) us there. I'm a sucker for auroras and spiral galaxies; you have been warned.

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Expedition 31 Crew Prepares For Launch

Star trail composite taken from the International Space Station.

"Strand of Pearls" by Rick Whitacre - absolutely beautiful!

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Shuttle Enterprise Flight To New York. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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Saturn V in 1968 Credit: NASA

Discovery

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sophia dengo That's our girl!

Five in Five!!! 5 Sounding rockets launched in ~5 minutes from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms // Image Credit & Copyright: M. Taha Ghouchkanlu

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Hurricane from above

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Stephan's Quintet Image Data: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing: Al Kelly

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Eastern Seaboard at Night, image credit NASA

Amazing Astronomy: Victorian-Era Illustrations of the Heavens via Live Science

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Milky Way over Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada; photo by Eric Frigon

Aurora Borealis Over the Midwest, January 25, 2012

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36" slab of Fukang pallasite meteorite (that's THREE FEET LONG, folks! Sadly, seller's website has vanished.) Extraterrestrial stained-glass window? YES, PLEASE.

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Lani Foo Holy crap!

Saturn's moon Enceladus in High Definition, approximate true color.

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"Green Vision" by Marc Adamus. Aurora borealis reflected on a frozen lakeshore in the Yukon Territory. Stunning.

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Helix Nebula As Seen By Hubble and the Cerro Toledo Inter-American Observatory Credit: NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), and M. Meixner, P. McCullough

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Most Detailed Look Ever Into the Carina Nebula

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More pillars in the Carina Nebula.

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The Pleiades, as imaged by Hubble in 2004.

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True color image of Jupiter, featuring the impact sites of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

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Sleeping Beauty Galaxy (M64)

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Carina Nebula pillar

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A bouncing Moon boulder // look at it go!

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Camping under the Aurora Borealis

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Inside the Eagle Nebula (in far-infrared and X-ray wavelengths)

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Dust of the Orion Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Nicolás Villegas

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Western Europe at night, as seen from the ISS

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Space Shuttle Endeavour in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Nov. 26, 2011

January Aurora (many more at the source link!)

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Aurora Borealis waterfall

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In the Shadow of Saturn

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A Persistent Electrical Storm on Saturn

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Saturn at Equinox

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Check out this view of the happy face crater (Galle Crater) on Mars!

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Space Shuttle Endeavor

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January Aurora Over Norway Image Credit & Copyright: Bjørn Jørgensen

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The atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan

Aurora - Simavika, Kvaløya, Troms, Norway - Jan. 6, 2012. Photo by Bernt Olsen.

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In the Arms of M83

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Space Shuttle Atlantis, final landing, July 21, 2011

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Space Shuttle Atlantis, on its last visit to the International Space Station // July 19, 2011

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521

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NGC 281, the Pacman Nebula

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A dust pillar in the Eagle Nebula

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Aurora Borealis over Norway

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Horse Drawn to Water, composite image by Terry Hancock and Marc Hoeksema

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NGC 7635, The Bubble Nebula

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