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This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows what lies near the sword of the constellation Orion -- an active stellar nursery containing thousands of young stars and developing protostars. Many will turn out like our sun. Some are even more massive. These massive stars light up the Orion nebula, which is seen here as the bright region near the center of the image.
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April 13, 2012 -- Astrophotographer Alan Friedman captured this gorgeous portrait of the sun on April 7 from his home in Buffalo, NY, using a backyard solar telescope and a new Grasshopper CCD camera by Point Grey Research. Viewed in a wavelength emitted by hydrogen alpha (Ha) the suns surface details become visible, showing the complex texture of our home stars true face. media-cache5.pint... ckarpyszyn space
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National Geographic: Stars in Scorpius Image courtesy NASA The star cluster Prismis 24 hangs above the monstrous emission nebula NGC 6357, seen here in this 2006 image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Located 8,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius, blazing stars some hundred times more massive than our sun lie buried within the nebula and are heating up the gas surrounding the cluster, creating the cavernous bubble visible at the bottom of the image.
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Heralded as the most famous celestial band -- second only to the rings of Saturn -- the Ring Nebula (also categorized as M57) glows with impressive "looping structures," in a way that looks stunningly like a giant blooming flower floating in space. Luckily for us, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image in beautiful detail, considering the Ring Nebula exists 2,000 light years away from Earth.
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An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle patroled the launch area as the Space Shuttle Atlantis roared into space on its final flight in May.
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16 Astronaut Edward White floats in zero gravity of space northeast of Hawaii, during the first-ever spacewalk for an American, on June 3, 1965, during the flight of Gemini IV. (NASA/JSC/ASU)
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Stellar Babies by nasa.gov: Infant stars glow gloriously pink in this infrared image of the Serpens Constellation's star-forming region, located approximately 8484 light-years away. #Stellar_Babies #nasa #Serpens_Constellation #nasa
Soap Bubble Nebula! This is one huge bubble... as large as our Solar System - more pic's @ site
This is the sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point. And, you also see the sun below the moon. An amazing photo and not one easily duplicated.
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Beautiful image from Neenah, Wis. Venus is closest to the Moon and Jupiter is at the top left
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A large solar flare erupts from the sun on 01/27/2012. Photo credit: NASA
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The International Space Station's commander has again seen the grandeur of comet Lovejoy in new pictures taken from the orbiting outpost, this time also capturing the Earth's horizon and background stars in exquisite detail.
Feb. 20, 2012. A rainbow is seen in space as a result of a star cluster millions of miles away, in Castelluccio Plateau, Sibillini Mountains National Park, Sibillini, Italy.
Galaxies are fascinating not only for what is visible, but for what is invisible. Grand spiral galaxy NGC 1232, captured in detail by one of the new Very Large Telescopes, is a good example. The visible is dominated by millions of bright stars and dark dust, caught up in a gravitational swirl of spiral arms revolving about the center. Open clusters containing bright blue stars can be seen sprinkled along these spiral arms, while dark lanes of dense interstellar dust can be seen sprinkled between them. Less visible, but detectable, are billions of dim normal stars and vast tracts of interstellar gas, together wielding such high mass that they dominate the dynamics of the inner galaxy. Invisible are even greater amounts of matter in a form we don't yet know - pervasive dark matter needed to explain the motions of the visible in the outer galaxy.
Amateur astronomer Lester Barnes sends this spectacular Dec. 23rd picture of Comet Lovejoy from Port Lincoln, South Australia.
The Rose Galaxy (actually two interacting galaxies, the larger one (UGC 1810) being a spiral disk that is pulled into a rose shape by its companion galaxy below it, UGC 1813.
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Messier 27, aka the Dumbbell nebula, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
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