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Monday, October 30, 2017

Antares & The Milky Way | ESO

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Brilliant blue stars litter the southern sky and the galactic bulge of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, hangs serenely above the horizon i...

Abell’s richest cluster | Hubble Space Telescope

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The Universe contains some truly massive objects. Although we are still unsure how such gigantic things come to be, the current leading th...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Here Comes The Sun | International Space Station

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Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy: "We see 16 sunsets every day, here's just one of them // Так выглядел один из 16 уникальных закатов,...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Our gleaming Milky Way

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This image taken at Paranal shows our beautifully gleaming Milky Way galaxy. The thick strip of glimmering stars is the plane of the Gala...

Cosmic archaeology: A galaxy cluster | Hubble

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is chock-full of galaxies—each glowing speck is a different galaxy, bar the bright flash in th...

Saturn's Grandeur | NASA Cassini Mission

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The Cassini mission was a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propuls...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

From Africa to Eastern Europe | International Space Station

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\ A series of night photos were taken by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli of Italy every second to create this timelapse of the Earth (Africa t...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Hubble observes first kilonova | NASA/ESA

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Hubble observes source of gravitational waves for the first time | Hubblecast 103: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ha...

First Light from Gravitational Wave Source | European Southern Observatory

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Artist Illustration: Merging neutron stars scatter gold and platinum into space Oct. 16, 2017: ESO’s fleet of telescopes in Chile have dete...

A Glimpse of Our Galaxy's Future | Hubble

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This image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows what happens when two galaxies become one. The twisted cosmic knot seen...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

ALMA looks to the night sky

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This photo shows ALMA hard at work in the Atacama desert, looking up at the Nights Sky. ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Our Way

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This beautiful image of the Milky Way was taken by ESO Photo Ambassador Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mateos. it clearly shows the interstellar dust t...
Monday, October 09, 2017

Dwarf Galaxy ESO 553-46 | Hubble Space Telescope

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Size can be deceptive | Some of the largest galaxies in the Universe are dormant, while some dwarf galaxies, such as ESO 553-46 imaged h...

Earth by Moonlight | International Space Station

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Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy: "Night planet Earth illuminated by the Aurora and Moonlight." "Ночная планета Земля в лунном с...
Thursday, October 05, 2017

ASPIRE Successfully Launches from NASA Wallops

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Oct. 4, 2017: A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket carrying a parachute test platform was successfully launched at 6:45 a.m. EST, Octo...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

SLS Core Stage Pathfinder Arrives at NASA Michoud

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The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage pathfinder, which is similar in similar in size, shape and weight to the 212-foot-tall core s...