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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.
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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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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Stephan's Quintet Image Data: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing: Al Kelly
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Amazing Astronomy: Victorian-Era Illustrations of the Heavens via Live Science
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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
True color image of Jupiter, featuring the impact sites of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
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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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Space Shuttle Endeavour in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Nov. 26, 2011
Check out this view of the happy face crater (Galle Crater) on Mars!
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January Aurora Over Norway Image Credit & Copyright: Bjørn Jørgensen
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Aurora - Simavika, Kvaløya, Troms, Norway - Jan. 6, 2012. Photo by Bernt Olsen.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis, on its last visit to the International Space Station // July 19, 2011
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Horse Drawn to Water, composite image by Terry Hancock and Marc Hoeksema
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