Atlas V Rising 

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First time stacking a photo of the milky way! taken 30 miles from Fargo ND http://space-pics.tumblr.com/ source:http://imgur.com/r/Astronomy/hQfdwrV

New Horizons captures images of water ice and blue skies on Pluto    

New Horizons, the spacecraft that keeps on giving.

May 1, 1979 – The prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise rolls out from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

(NASA/Kennedy Space Center)

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This volcano in Indonesia emits electric-blue “lava” 

Kawah Ijen, in Indonesia’s Ijen volcano complex, is the biggest “acidic volcanic crater lake” in the world. It also happens to emit lava which appears luminescent and electric-blue. The lava, like all other lava, starts out red. Then it hits the “pockets.” (Photos via @reubenwu)

Very true.

The first structural test article of Orion’s Service Module arrived at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio yesterday (November 9). Manufactured by Airbus Defense and Space in Europe, (the same company who built the Automated Transfer Vehicle), the European Service Module will provide Orion’s electrical, propulsion and umbilical capabilities during flight. A single Orbital Maneuvering System engine leftover from the Space Shuttle program will power the spacecraft, and four 11-kilowatt solar panels will generate electrical power. The STA will be used for fit checks and other engineering tests at NASA’s Plumb Brook facility, which is a sub-facility of Glenn. An Antonov-124 aircraft, the second largest cargo plane in the world delivered the ESM STA to Cleveland International Airport November 9.

A Reddit user captured several phenomenal photos of the solar eclipse, from the cockpit of an airplane.

This is what our night sky could look like guys.