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Otjizonjati outcrop on Mars





3D perspective view of Mars' polar ice cap.



NASA : 2016 Mercury Transit in 4K UHD





The Race To See The Black Hole At The Center Of Our Galaxy



Airglow









New images by ISS astronauts





New images of Ceres (by Dawn)





This enhanced color view from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto's great ice plains, where at lower right the plains border rugged, dark highlands informally named Krun Macula.





The recently launched Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over the United Kingdom

 
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Sun today





Earth from ISS



Poyang Lake, Chine: image by ASTER instrument



Radio image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot



Venus: image by Akatsuki instrument



This graphic overlays Martian atmospheric temperature data as curtains over an image of Mars taken during a regional dust storm. The temperature profiles extend from the surface to about 80 km up. Temperatures are color coded, ranging from minus -153° C [purple] to -23° C [red].



Titan



Supermassive black holes





Cerberus Fossae, Mars. The narrow linear features are graben, formed by a block of material moving downward along paired faults.






Single frame enhanced NavCam image taken on June 2016, when Rosetta was 23.6 km from the center of the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The average scale is 2 m/pixel and the image measures about 2.1 km across.




Milky Way rising over the horizon

 
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Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth




This graphic maps the first 14 sites where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover collected rock or soil samples for analysis using the rover's onboard laboratory. It also presents images of the drilled holes where 12 rock-powder samples were acquired. At the other two sites Curiosity scooped soil samples.




Occator Crater, home of the brightest area on Ceres, also has an intriguing rim. The jagged slopes of this 80-million-year-old basin, and linear features on its floor, contrast with the relatively smooth terrain around it, blanketed by ejecta from the ancient impact. Boulders and braided fractures are also visible along the rim.


Astronomers Find Largest Known Planet To Orbit Two Suns [Kepler-1647b 3700 ly from Earth]


One minute over Hawaii, California and Utah








New images by ISS astronauts
 
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Marathon valley on Mars



New image of Ceres's surface


Small Asteroid (2016 HO3) Is Earth's Constant Companion


JOI: Into the Unknown (NASA Juno Mission Trailer)


Thrashing black holes make gravitational waves


We'll Have To Wait 1,500 Years Before Aliens Contact Us


LIGO again detects gravitational waves
 
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Scientists Detect Oxygen In Galaxy 13.1 Billion ly From Earth


Why with Nye (Ep. 5)



This beautiful image was captured on Tuesday, 14 June, by Diego Aloi, working as part of the local engineering team at Malargüe station. The dish is located 30 km south of the city of Malargüe, ~ 1200 km west of Buenos Aires, Argentina.



Sun, Venus and farside CME



Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA captured a series of photos on April 25, 2016, for this composite image of the setting sun reflected by the ocean.



Comet 67P



Pluto's moons Charon, Nix and Hydra. Charon and Nix were imaged in color by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, but Hydra was not.



A comparison of the compositional spectra of Pluto's moons Charon, Hydra and Nix to pure water ice.
Nix's surface displays the deepest water-ice spectral features.



Tupo crater, Ceres.
 
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NASA just extended the New Horizons mission for another flyby


Glaciers on Pluto


After Five-Year Journey, NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter’s Orbit


 
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This is amazing. Knowledge is just like some crazy ocean engulfing everything. It's getting harder to keep up :eek: I just love this :D


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Chaotic orbit of Comet Halley explained

[An accurate integration of the orbits of the 8 planets and Halley’s Comet for the next 10k years]


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Mystery solved: Martian moons formed by a giant impact


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A complete overview of all of Juno's science instruments and their placement on the spacecraft



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This illustration displays how supermassive black holes eject intergalactic gas as they consume matter.




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This image of Jupiter's rings came from NASA's Galileo mission, which became the first spacecraft to orbit the planet. Galileo explored Jupiter and its moons from 1995 through 2003. Credit: NASA, JPL




Illustration of Jupiter's interior layers, including its potential dense inner core. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech



Dark hydrogen would be found beneath the surface of gas giant planets like Jupiter.



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Renowned UK astro-imager Damian Peach created this stunning video of a rotating Jupiter with images captured from Barbados in early to mid-June, 3 weeks before Juno's arrival at the gas giant.



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First Evidence for Water Ice Clouds Found outside Solar System




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Celestial circles




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A false-color image of the Netherlands, as seen in infrared by ESA's Proba-V minisatellite, with vegetation shown in red, woodland in red–brown and built-up areas as green.



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Plumes of icy material extend above the southern polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in February 2005.




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Enceladus and its paper-thin crust





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Launched from Japan on February 17, 2016, the Japanese space agency (JAXA) Hitomi X-ray Observatory functioned for just over a month before contact was lost and the craft disintegrated. But the data obtained during those few weeks was enough to paint a startling new picture of the dynamic forces at work within galaxies.



 
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Astronomers Discovered An Exoplanet Stuck Between 3 Suns


Hubble Takes A Close-Up Of The Crab Nebula's Beating Heart


Saturn's Moon Titan May Have Ingredients To Support Life


Monitoring Air Quality


Earth from Space: Malaspina Glacier

 
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Some Mercury fun:



The globe on the left was created from the MDIS monochrome surface morphology base map campaign. The globe on the right was produced from the MDIS color base map campaign.




Mercury's sodium tail

The amount of sodium in Mercury's exosphere depends on the planet's position in its orbit around the Sun. In this video, the large whitish-reddish mass is the sodium in exosphere around Mercury (dark blue circle). In the upper left corner, Mercury's position (purple ball) in its orbit (light blue circle) around the Sun (yellow ball) is shown. (TAA stands for true anomaly angle - the angle between Mercury, the Sun, and the closest point to the Sun along the orbit, which is known as the perihelion point.)

As Mercury orbits, the distance between the planet and the Sun changes and so does the speed at which Mercury is moving relative to the Sun. These changes, in turn, affect both the brightness of the sodium emission and the amount of radiation pressure a sodium atom experiences. These factors yield the greatest amount of sodium in the exosphere when Mercury is at a middle distance from the Sun.




Gravity Anomalies

Red tones indicate mass concentrations, centered on the Caloris basin (center) and the Sobkou region (right limb). Such large-scale gravitational anomalies are signatures of subsurface structure and evolution. The north pole is near the top of the sunlit area in this view.
 
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Around local midnight time on April 8, 2015, astronauts aboard the ISS took this photograph of Paris, often referred to as the “City of Light.”







An illusion of perspective, Saturn's moon Tethys seems to hang above the planet's north pole in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.



For only the second time in a year, a camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite captured a view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth.



OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 3 July 2016, when Rosetta was 11.2 km from the center of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.





Astronomers with the Outer Solar System Origins Survey have discovered a new dwarf planet 2015 RR245.
 
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6-minute footage called Vorticity by storm chaser photographer Mike Olbinski, will show you Nature's force, like never before…







This week's CometWatch images were taken with Rosetta's NAVCAM, when the spacecraft was ~ 12 km from the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.




These images show Homshuk and Sekhet craters on Ceres.



Images of Jupiter, taken through the narrow angle camera of NASA's Cassini spacecraft from a distance of 77.6 million km.
The image on the left was taken through the blue filter. The one in the middle was taken in the UV. The one on the right was taken in the near infrared.



Dragon on its way to ISS, Falcon on its way home



Dione (1123 km across) & Epimetheus (113 kilometers across) are seen in this view, above the rings at left and right respectively.



Mars today
 
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Venus' surface revealed through the clouds

Using observations from ESA's Venus Express satellite, scientists have shown for the first time how weather patterns seen in Venus' thick cloud layers are directly linked to the topography of the surface below. Rather than acting as a barrier to our observations, Venus' clouds may offer insight into what lies beneath.

As well as helping us understand more about Venus, the finding that surface topography can significantly affect atmospheric circulation has consequences for our understanding of planetary super-rotation, and of climate in general.





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New raw image of Saturn by Cassini



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There Are A LOT More Galaxies Than We Previously Thought Existed


NASA's Kepler Spots Over 100 New Exoplanets, Some In Habitable Zone

 
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Two new Kuiper Belt objects, 2014 FZ71 and 2015 FJ345, are among the most distant bodies in the Solar System. They are always further than 50AU from the Sun, and only Sedna and 2012 VP113 have larger perihelia.



An arrow indicates the approximate position of 2014 FZ71, which moves relative to the background stars and galaxies in this sequence of 3 images taken approximately 3 hours apart.

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Rosetta's last act :(


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SpaceX Capsule Arrives at ISS


SpaceX wants to land 3 rockets at once


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One Year on Earth Seen From 1 Million Miles


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NASA'S Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets



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On July 20, 1976, at 8:12 a.m. EDT, NASA received the signal that the Viking Lander 1 successfully reached the Martian surface. This color image of the Martian surface in the Chryse area was taken by Viking Lander 1, looking southwest, about 15 minutes before sunset on the evening of August 21.



In February 1917, Albert Einstein wrote in a letter: “It is a pity that we do not live on Mars and just observe man's nasty antics by telescope.” We do have a telescope at Mars, but we use it to image Mars rather than Earth, such as this image of bizarre landforms in Gorgonum Basin.
 
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Martian news



Sun's rays illuminate the SpaceX Dragon after it was attached to the ISS's Harmony module.



OSIRIS wide-angle camera image taken on 16 July 2016, when Rosetta was 12.8 km from the center of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.



Bright galactic center above the pitch black volcanic landscape of La Palma.




Sun today


Tropical storm



Liber Crater is featured at lower left in this image from Ceres.
 
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Saturn's A & F rings



Sun today



Aurora Australis - From Wellington, New Zealand. Taken by Jonathan Usher on July 25, 2016.



This image shows a double impact feature at high northern latitudes on Ceres, just south of the large crater named Ghanan.




Mars today



The rugged coastal landscape of Stavanger in southwest Norway, with its distinctive rocks and hills was captured by the Sentinel-2A satellite on 15 March 2016.



The island of Tongatapu and the nearby smaller islands – all part of the Kingdom of Tonga archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean – are pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 23 May.

 
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As it reaches the end of its life...
Philae, the first robot to land on a comet, has reached the end of its life and is bidding a final farewell to Earth through a series of sad tweets.

“It’s time for me to say goodbye,”Philae tweeted on Tuesday. “Tomorrow, the unit on@ESA_Rosetta for communication with me will be switched off forever…”

http://time.com/4424055/comet-philae-farewell-earth/
 
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Earth is entering a broad stream of debris from comet Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. NASA cameras detected the first Perseid fireballs of 2016 on July 26th.



No sunspots for today. Blank Sun is a sign that Solar Maximum is over and Solar Minimum is coming - a natural transition of the 11-year sunspot cycle.



The Sentinel-3A satellite caught this image of a dust storm blowing east across the Red Sea on 25 July 2016.



OSIRIS wide-angle camera image taken on 20 July 2016, when Rosetta was 9.1 km from the center of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.



Annona and Mondamin craters on Ceres.





Mars today (Opportunity rover)



Latest discoveries:



 
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Blue hole, sounds pretty cool :D


Urmia turns red :wtf:

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Some space madness beyond Solar System:





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Self-explanatory and informative diagrams:




 
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Wild looking ice flows off of Newfoundland



On July 27, 2016 the Aqua satellite captured this close up image of the Soberanes fire in northern California




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Jeeeezuss.... data overload... images are taking forever to load.....
I know. But those images are awesome, I don't mind waiting for them to load. Everyday there's a new stream of data on Solar System and beyond. We're living in a really good and interesting time when every single day brings a tiny piece of knowledge.


New images of Martian landscape:







A complex of craters in mid-southern latitudes on Ceres, just west of the peaks known as Niman Rupes.



Aurora. Photo Taken by Jim Bishop on July 28, 2016 @ Manitoba, Canada

 
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