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Crab Nebula The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, the gaseous remains of a star that exploded. The stellar explosion was observed about 1000 years ago. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope, NASA |
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Hubble Ultra Deep Field The Hubble Ultra Deep Field shows approximately ten thousand galaxies in a patch of the sky one-third the apparent size of the full moon. These galaxies are at many different distances from us, stretching across the known universe. This image is the deepest visible light exposure ever taken. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope, NASA |
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Spiral Galaxy Messier 51 Messier 51 is a galaxy composed of billions of stars, bright gas clouds, and dark dust lanes. The two prominent spiral arms are in a pancake-shaped disk that we view face-on. A smaller companion galaxy appears on the right side of the image. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope, NASA |
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Mars Global Mosaic This image of Mars is a composite of thousands of images taken by the Viking Orbiters in the 1970s. Prominent features include the North Polar Cap (top center), the volcanoes of the Tharsis plains (left of center), and Mariner Valley (below center), a canyon ten times deeper and a hundred times longer than the Grand Canyon on Earth. Credit: Viking Mission, NASA |
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Orion Nebula The Orion Nebula is a giant gas cloud where stars are being born. Massive stars at the center of this image formed a few million years ago, and their radiation heats the gas and makes it glow. Several thousand other stars are forming deeper within the nebula. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope, NASA |
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Saturn This image of the planet Saturn shows the banded structure of its deep gaseous atmosphere. Saturn’s ring system shows only its basic features from Earth, including a few main rings and some empty gaps. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope, NASA |
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The Sun in Ultraviolet Light This image of the Sun is taken in ultraviolet light, which shows off its high energy charatceristics. While visible light features black sunpots, ultraviolet light reveals the magnetic storms raging in the Sun’s atmosphere above those sunspots. Credit: SOHO Mission, NASA |
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