The star cluster Westerlund 2
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This is incredible!
MWC 922, The Red Square Nebula
Cassini, Jupiter and Saturn
I wish I could live somewhere with a view like this.
Falling asleep most nights with the stars above and the cool air coming in through the open window. Sure is a fun way to live.
Check out our new video to see every NASA astronaut class. Some patterns emerge.
The loneliest of galaxies
Now at the age of 13, she had already: Attended Space Camp 7 times, Space Academy 3 times and Robotics Academy 1 time. Became the first person to complete all the NASA Space Camps in the world, including Space Camp Turkey and Space Camp Canada. Witness 3 Space Shuttle launches. Attend Sally Ride Camp at MIT, and three Sally Ride Day camps. Speak several foreign languages: Spanish, French, Chinese and some Turkish. She also delivers motivational speeches to other children.
She is determined to be the first person to land on Mars & NASA is already training her.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — a whopping 69,536 x 22,230 pixels. The enormous image is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40,000 light-years.
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(WARNING: May cause existential crisis)