ERIS, the Very Large Telescope’s newest infrared eye on the sky, captured this stunning image of the inner ring of the galaxy NGC 1097. This galaxy is located 45 million light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Fornax. ERIS has captured the gaseous and dusty ring that lies at the very centr

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A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of the galaxy's ring of stars, revealing more detail than any existing photo of this object...

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Clustered at the center of this image are six brilliant spots of light, four of them creating a circle around a central pair. (See comments)

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The first anniversary image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture..( see comments)..

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..Pillars of Creation.. By combining images of the iconic Pillars of Creation from two cameras aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, the Universe has been framed in its infrared glory..( see comments)..

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The subject of this image is a group of three galaxies, collectively known as NGC 7764A. They were imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, using both its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).( See comments)

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The LAMP mission, short for Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, launched on Saturday, Marc 5, 2022, aboard a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket.

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Astronaut Bruce McCandless Floating Free.. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS 41-B mission specialist, participates in a historical spacewalk. He is pictured a few meters away from the cabin of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger. This spacewalk represented the first use of a nitrogen-prope

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This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5037, which is found in the constellation of Virgo and was first documented by William Herschel in 1785.( see comments)

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Jupiter in Ganymede’s Shadow  During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet on Feb. 25, 2022. JunoCam captured this image from very close to Jupiter, making Ganymede’s shadow appear especially large. At the time the raw image was ta

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Meteor shower in the Chilean Desert The Eta Aquariids meteor shower, which peaked in early May this year, was captured in this stunning image by astrophotographer Petr Horalek. ( see comments)

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ERIS, the Very Large Telescope’s newest infrared eye on the sky, captured this stunning image of the inner ring of the galaxy NGC 1097. This galaxy is located 45 million light-years away from Earth, in the comments Fornax. ( see comments)

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M31: The Andromeda Galaxy the Big Sister- The most distant object easily visible to the naked eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy. ( see comments)

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Clustered at the centre of this image are six luminous spots of light, four of them forming a circle around a central pair. Appearances can be deceiving, however, as this formation is not composed of six individual galaxies, but only three: to be precise, a pair of galaxies and one distant quasar.

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This image of Ganymede was obtained by NASA's Juno Spacecraft JunoCam imager during a flyby of the icy moon on 7 June 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS .

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Invisible Galactic Gale- NGC 4666 takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic spiral galaxy lies about 80 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, and is undergoing a particularly intense episode of star formation.( see comments)

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This swirling mass of celestial gas, dust and stars is a moderately bright spiral galaxy named ESO 021-G004, located just under 130 million light-years away.( see comments)

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This view of the crescent Earth over the Moon's horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. Apollo 15 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on July 26, 1971 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. Aboard was a crew of three astronauts: David R. Scott, mission commander; James B. Irwin, lun

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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two of the galaxies in the galactic triplet Arp 248 — also known as Wild's Triplet — which lies around 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The two large spiral galaxies visible in this image — which flank a smaller,

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Jupiter’s southern hemisphere Jupiter’s southern hemisphere was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno orbiter after the camera returned to normal operation.. ( see comments )

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy NGC 6984, an elegant spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus roughly 200 million light-years away from Earth. The galaxy is a familiar sight for Hubble, having already been captured in 2013. (See comments)

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A galactic powerhouse. This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3254, observed using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

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This image of Ganymede was obtained by NASA's Juno Spacecraft JunoCam imager during a flyby of the icy moon on 7 June 2021.

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NASA’s Webb Catches Fiery Hourglass as New Star Forms.NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within the dark cloud L1527, providing insight into the beginnings.

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-Brilliant Halo at La Silla- A spectacular lunar halo — known as a 22° halo — formed in the sky above ESO’s La Silla Observatory.

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Black hole hidden in the star cluster -A team of astronomers has discovered a star in cluster NGC 3201, which behaves very strangely. It appears to orbit an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the Sun,( see comments)

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The long journey of the Voyagers to the stars .. Voyager 1 and 2, launched a few days apart in 1977 are still in operation and represent the farthest objects ever launched into space by man. ( see comments)

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Bright foreground star isn’t enough to distract from the grandeur of the galaxy UGC 3885, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. While this foreground star is incredibly bright to..

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. Look for them at the center of the red diffraction spikes, appearing as an orange-white splotch. Herbig-Haro 46/47 is an important object

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Stars in the Early Universe - This June 2020 image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.

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This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space, but don’t be fooled — it keeps a violent secret. It is believed that this galaxy consumed another smaller galaxy to become the large and beautiful spiral that we observ

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This reprocessed colour view of Jupiter’s moon Europa was made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.

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Jupiter in Ganymede’s Shadow- During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet on Feb. 25, 2022. JunoCam captured this image from very close to Jupiter, making Ganymede’s shadow appear especially large. At the time the raw image was ta

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Apollo 11 Mission - View of moon limb,with Earth on the horizon. -July 1969- This view from the Apollo 11 spacecraft shows the Earth rising above the moon's horizon.( see comments)

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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest in the solar system ...

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1500 light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears like a billowing fire. The bright star Alnitak, ..( see comments )

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