Space Facts & Astronomy
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The Horsehead Nebula
Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, this dusty interstellar molecular cloud has by chance assumed an immediately re...
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The Heart of the Soul Nebula
This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of g...
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Flying Over the Earth at Night
Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in...
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The Sun and Its Missing Colors
It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced...
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Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater
Fifty three years ago, in December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours...
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The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae
Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long. Recently discove...
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Galaxies in the Furnace
An example of violence on a cosmic scale, enormous elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 lies about 75 million light-years away tow...
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Visualization: Near a Black Hole and Disk
What would it look like to plunge into a monster black hole? This image from a supercomputer visualization shows the en...
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M77: Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center
What's happening in the center of nearby spiral galaxy M77? The face-on galaxy lies a mere 47 million light-years away t...
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3I ATLAS: Tails of an Interstellar Comet
How typical is our Solar System? Studying 3I/ATLAS, a comet just passing through, is providing clues. Confirmed previo...
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The Surface of Titan from Huygens
If you could stand on Titan -- what would you see? The featured color view from Titan gazes across an unfamiliar and dis...
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Moon Games
This is not a screen from a video game. Nestled below the treeline, the small mountain church does look like it might be...
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