Planetary Nebula NGC 2818 from Hubble.
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Astronauts talking about viewing the earth from the moon, from The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendent Experience in Space Flight
Hubble Finds an Einstein Ring : These graceful arcs are a cosmic phenomenon known as an Einstein ring - created as the light from distant galaxies warps around an extremely large mass, like a galaxy cluster. (via NASA)
If you couldn’t tell already, NASA is having a great year. From Pluto to food grown in space, even in the face of budget cuts, the nation’s space agency had some stellar highlights. Most mysteriously of all, a spacecraft found two eerily bright lights on a distant dwarf planet.
Hubble captures stunning image of Messier 94 Galaxy showing a starburst ring.
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Timelapse of Europa & Io orbiting Jupiter, shot from Cassini during its flyby of Jupiter