Space Shuttle Endeavor Getting Moved

The Storm That Missed Earth – “A typical CME [coronal mass ejection] travels at about 1 million mph [1,609,344 kilometers per hour]. This model of the [23 July 2012] event shows the CME (red) speeding in the direction of STEREO A at 6.7 million mph [10,782,604.8 kilometers per hour].” [1024 x 576] by trot-trot

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NASA Ultra Deep Field 2014 - 10,000 Galaxies

In 2004, NASA pointed the Hubble into a very small section of space and the result was amazing…

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah (Canon Rebel T6, Rokinon 14mm f/2.8, 25 seconds, ISO 1600). I-80 traffic created the light trails. by Woosh_Cecil

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Dueling Bands in the Night : What are these two bands in the sky? The more commonly seen band is the one on the right and is the central band of our Milky Way galaxy. Our Sun orbits in the disk of this spiral galaxy, so that from inside, this disk appears as a band of comparable brightness all the way around the sky. The Milky Way band can also be seen all year – if out away from city lights. The less commonly seem band, on the left, is zodiacal light – sunlight reflected from dust orbiting the Sun in our Solar System. Zodiacal light is brightest near the Sun and so is best seen just before sunrise or just after sunset. On some evenings in the north, particularly during the months of March and April, this ribbon of zodiacal light can appear quite prominent after sunset. It was determined only this century that zodiacal dust was mostly expelled by comets that have passed near Jupiter. Only on certain times of the year will the two bands be seen side by side, in parts of the sky, like this. The featured image, including the Andromeda galaxy and a meteor, was captured in late January over a frozen lake in Kanding, Sichuan, China. via NASA

Remnants from a star that exploded thousands of years ago created a celestial abstract portrait, as captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Pencil Nebula.

Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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2 years ago I took my first photo of the Milky Way - I still get giddy when looking up at the endless blanket of stars. [3975x5962] [OC] by Jorgey94

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Milky Way over Emu Downs Wind Farm - Cervantes, Western Australia

35mm - ISO 4000 - f/2.2 - 30s

The pixel scale of the Hubble Space Telescope’s WFC3 camera with the Event Horizon Telescope for Black Hole image by akashdalai

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