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The monster sunspot group AR 1476, upper left, measures more than 60,000 miles from end to end. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft snapped this photo Monday.
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The largest solar flare in five years errupted from the sun's surface March 6, 2012.
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In this photo provided by the Smithsonian Institution via NASA, space shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. (AP Photo/Smithsonian Institution via NASA, Carolyn Russo))
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Facebook user: Jason Greashaber "5 Minutes to Midnight" - Sigma 150-500mm on Nikon D7000 - Castle Rock, CO
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Endicott, N.Y. iWitness Weather contributor Binghamton Beach Bum sent us this view of the moon on Saturday.
Stanwood, Mich. iWitness Weather contributor Yamikaze sent us this up-close image of the moon taken this past Friday night.
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Carrabelle Beach, Fla. iWitness Weather contributor Charlotte Peebles Austin sent us this image of the moon reflecting on the water as it began to rise in the night sky on Saturday.
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Another image from iWitness Weather contributor Idaho Bob showing the moon setting behind the Owyhee Mountain Range.
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iWitness Weather contributor Idaho Bob captured this image of the moon setting on April 6. He added this comment about the image: "It was a nice,crispy,spring morning for a lovely moonset. Taken from Tablerock area looking over Boise,ID as the moon made its way behind the Owyhee Mountain Range".
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Atlanta, Ga. iWitness Weather contributor Kristin1 captured this image of the moon in the night sky from Atlanta, Ga.
Reno, Nev. iWitness Weather contributor Catilac captured this image of the moon setting on Easter Sunday morning in Reno, Nev.
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Spicer, Minn. iWitness weather contributor Richard Smith snapped this photo of the full moon over the weekend. Richard commented, "I was taking some pictures of a beaver that lives here on Nest Lake,(we call him "Nesty, the Nest Lake Monster" ). I turned around, and the moon was coming up over the trees, so I snapped this picture."
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International space station coming over the horizon in view of the #aurora last night 3/8/2012.
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International space station coming over the horizon in view of the #aurora last night on 3/8/12.
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The crew of the International Space Station shot some spectacular video of the aurora borealis, or northern lights.
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A towering dust devil, casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this image acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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The active region 1429 unleashed a powerful X5.4-class solar flare. X-class flares are the strongest of the flares. They are major events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms. Credit: NASA/SDO
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Sunspot 1429 is where a major solar flare erupted on the sun during the evening of March 6, 2012. Credit: NASA/SDO/HMI
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Large, violent tornadoes can leave scars on the earth that are easy to spot on high-resolution satellite imagery. The segment of the damage path depicted above is from an EF4 tornado that moved near Berry, Alabama during the Superoutbreak of 2011 on April 27. The damage path was 116 miles long. (Image, information credit: NASA Earth Observatory (EO-1 satellite))
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According to NASA, Chile's Puyehue Cordon Caulle volcano has been erupting for 8 months. The satellite image above shows the ash plume blowing in a southeast direction on January 26, 2012. Also clearly visible in this satellite photo is ash (light gray color) covering the slopes of the volcano. (Image, information credit: NASA/Earth Observing-1 satellite)
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You may have seen images like this on weather.com before. Under clear skies, smoke from large wildfires can easily be seen from satellites in space. This image is from the Wallow Fire in Arizona on June 7, 2011. This was the largest wildfire in Arizona history. (Image, information credit: NASA/GSFC modis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
The blue-colored swirl at the bottom right of this satellite image is an ocean eddy. According to Dennis McGillicuddy at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, eddies are huge masses of water spinning in a whirlpool pattern. They often spin off of major ocean current systems. The blue tint is a result of microscopic plant-like organisms called plankton, which grow as a result of the eddy stirring up nutrients from the deep to the surface. This image is from December 26, 2011 around 500 mil...
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Europe was stuck in a frigid, snowy pattern from late January through the first part of February in 2012. We've seen the amazing images of the snow from ground level. However, we can use satellite imagery to see snowcover on the ground when skies are clear enough. Highlighted on the image above is the snowcover over France on February 11, 2012. (Image, information credit: NASA/GSFC modis.gsfc.nasa.gov
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These icebergs were captured by satellite floating around in the South Pacific Ocean 1,500 miles east-southeast of New Zealand. The larger of the two icebergs highlighted above is an estimated 22 miles long. It formed in 2003 after breaking off a larger iceberg that originated from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica during March of 2000. (Image, information credit: NASA/GSFC modis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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For reference, the far right side of this image is the western coast of Africa. Strong winds blew a cloud of dust from the continent into the Atlantic Ocean. The high-resolution satellite imagery from February 7, 2012 above clearly shows this dust (brown, hazy area) over the far eastern Atlantic and the Cape Verde Islands. (Image credit: NASA/GSFC modis.gsfc.noaa.gov)
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New data has indicated that the Earth’s sister planet, Venus, is slowing down, and scientists are stumped as to why, according to a CBC News report. Scientists were surprised to learn from the European Space Agency’s Venus Express orbiter, used to map Venus’ surface, that Venus is rotating 6 and a half minutes slower than it was 16 years ago. credit: NASA
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A Delta II rocket launches the new satellite from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. This is the first NASA satellite mission to address the challenge of acquiring a wide range of land, ocean, and atmospheric measurements for Earth system science while simultaneously preparing to address operational requirements for weather forecasting. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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From its vantage512 miles above Earth, the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the new Earth-observing satellite gets a complete view of our planet every day. This image from November 24, 2011, is the first complete global image. Rising from the south and setting in the north on the daylight side of Earth, VIIRS images the surface in long wedges measuring1,900 miles across. The swaths from each successive orbit overlap one another, so that at the end of the day, the sensor has a complete view of the globe. The Arctic is missing because it is too dark to view in visible light during the winter. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory)
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Image of Eastern U.S. from NASA's Newest Earth-Observing Satellite Suomi NPP A 'true-color' image of the Eastern United States taken on January 19, 2012. This image was taken between 5:57 pm USA EST and 6:04 pm USA EST. (Image credit: NASA/Suomi NPP/Atmosphere PEATE/Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison/Liam Gumley
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Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. (Image credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring)
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Anyone howl at the full #snow moon last night? Great shot from #Maine here, courtesy of spaceweather.com/
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The difference between these two GOES images (upper right corner) highlight today's X1.7 flare.
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This coronagraph image from the NASA/ESA SOHO satellite shows the non-Earth-directed CME erupting from today's flare.
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The new image of Earth is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. Both of these new 'Blue Marble' images are images taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Compiled by NASA Goddard scientist Norman Kuring, this image has the perspective of a viewer looking down from 7,918 miles (about 12,742 kilometers) above the Earth's surface. The four vertical lines of 'haze' visible in this image shows the reflection of sunlight off the ocean, or 'glint,' that VIIRS captured as it orbited the globe. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA and the Department of Defense. Image Credit: NASA/NOAA
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The colorful globe of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, passes in front of the planet and its rings in this true color snapshot from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 21, 2011 at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles (2.3 million kilometers) from Titan. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit www.nasa.gov/... and saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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The Earth's moon has been an endless source of fascination for humanity for thousands of years. When at last Apollo 11 landed on the moon's surface in 1969, the crew found a desolate, lifeless orb, but one which still fascinates scientist and non-scientist alike. This image of the moon's north polar region was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC. One of the primary scientific objectives of LROC is to identify regions of permanent shadow and near-permanent illumination. Since the start of the mission, LROC has acquired thousands of Wide Angle Camera images approaching the north pole. From these images, scientists produced this mosaic, which is composed of 983 images taken over a one month period during northern summer. This mosaic shows the pole when it is best illuminated, regions that are in shadow are candidates for permanent shadow. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
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This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, provides a look generally northeastward: Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); western Lake Ontario shoreline with Toronto (left edge); Montreal (near center). An optical illusion in the photo makes the atmospheric limb and light activity from Aurora Borealis appear "intertwined." Image Credit: NASA
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Saturn and Dione appear askew in this Cassini spacecraft view, with the north poles rotated to the right, as if they were threaded along on the thin diagonal line of the planet's rings. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Dione (698 miles, or 1,123 kilometers across). The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 12, 2011. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 35,000 miles (57,000 kilometers) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Wide Angle Camera (WAC) provides the most complete look at the size and shape of the surface features on the farside of the moon to date. This global mosaic is comprised of over 15,000 WAC images acquired between November 2009 and February 2011, centered at 180° longitude, 0° latitude. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a similar barred spiral, and the study of galaxies such as NGC 1073 helps astronomers learn more about our celestial home. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA. Image credit: NASA, ESA
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Jason Greashaber For those wondering, this was taken on a very stable tripod (sandbagged for additional stability), mirror lock-up mode was used and a remote release to eliminate even the slightest vibration.