For The First Time, NASA’s Curiosity Rover Has Captured A Color Image Of A Sunset On Mars.  (NASA

The Infrared Visible Andromeda: This remarkable synthetic color composite image was assembled from archives of visible light and infrared astronomy image data. The field of view spans the Andromeda Galaxy are also included in the frame. via NASA

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Any minute now, NASA’s Juno will be entering Jupiter’s orbit. So here is a photo of an aurora on Jupiter.

98% waning gibbous Moon | 11% waning crescent Moon 

by Bartosz Wojczyński

This is Pluto as never seen before in human history.

The Pinwheel Galaxy - this giant disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light-years across; nearly twice the diameter of the Milky Way. It is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars, approximately 100 billion of which could be like our Sun in terms of temperature and lifetime [6000x4690]

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The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) Image Credit: NASA/ESA

All here… Sorry, Pluto, you don’t belong here

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Moon and Venus by frankastro

A Gallery of ‘Tadpole Galaxies’

These postage-stamp-size images reveal 36 young galaxies caught in the act of merging with other galaxies. These galaxies appear as they existed many billions of years ago. Astronomers have dubbed them “tadpole galaxies” because of their distinct knot-and-tail shapes, which suggest that they are engaging in galactic mergers.

Credit: NASA, A. Straughn, S. Cohen, and R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and the HUDF team (Space Telescope Science Institute) Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0604a/