If You Couldn’t Tell Already, NASA Is Having A Great Year. From Pluto To Food Grown In Space, Even

M104: The Sombrero Galaxy.

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- Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Jupiter in Near-Infrared & Jupiter and Ganymede in Near-UV and Blue

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Galaxies in Pegasus.

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The stunning Sombrero galaxy

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Sunset from the International Space Station, taken by Scott Kelly

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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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Antennae galaxies, an intense star-forming region created when two galaxies began to collide some 200 million to 300 million years ago. The bright, blue-white areas show newly formed stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen, which are colored pink. A similar collision is expected between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearby Andromeda galaxy in several billion years.

Source: national geographic

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This Distant World May Be The First Ringed Planet Discovered Outside Our Solar System

Planet J1407b is 430 light years from Earth and 10-40 times the size of Jupiter. It’s too soon to tell if these truly are rings, but if they are…

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Jupiter’s south pole, taken by Cassini