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Clouds on Venus Copyrights: Franz Klauser Venus_IRSUVSUV_BA190_0002 19-08-59_g3_b3_ap21_small.jpg Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and the Moon Copyrights: Tunc Teze 20130804_small.jpg 20130805_small.jpg Internation Space Station Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi ISS2013.08.04II_small.jpg Ganymede (painting) C...

M16 and M17 mosaic
Copyrights: Jose Mtanous NASA's Curiosity Nearing First Anniversary on Mars
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems Cave Nebula
Copyrights: Albert Barr

When galaxies switch off — Hubble's COSMOS survey solves "quenched" galaxy mystery Credits: NASA, ESA, M. Carollo (ETH Zurich) Sample of non-star-forming galaxies from the COSMOS survey - more about: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1313/ heic1313a.jpg A Reflection Nebula in Scorpiu...

Mega-Mosaic of the Cone nebula Region Copyrights: Robert Gendler, Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), DSS Cone-Subaru-DSS-SS.jpg Supernowa SN2013ej in M74, July 31 2013, New Mexico Copyrights: Ian Sharp sn2013ej_20130731_ids.jpg Supernova SN2013ej in M74, July 30 2013, Nernio, Spain Copyrights: Ian Sharp sn20...

Close-up view of Andromeda Galaxy (M31) Copyrights: NAOJ An article and larger version of the image: http://www.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2001/09/07/index.html M31_m_small.JPG Andromeda Galaxy (M31) - a new view on origins of Dark Matter and Dark Energy Credit: HSC Project/NAOJ An article and larger ve...

BORREGO STARDANCE - 5 stills
Copyrights: Gavin Heffernan

Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae Copyrights: Phil Baker Combined-Mosaic-2B_small.JPG Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower Copyrights: John Chumack DeltaAquaridMeteorsChumackLRweb.jpg ALMA Space Observatory Copyrights: Adhemar Duro More ALMA pictures: http://dashburst.com/pic/alma-space-observatory-brazil/ ALMA.jpg

M7 (Ptolemy Cluster) Copyrights: Roberto Colombari M7_3_apod_small.jpg Polaris is several km that way Distance: 4077487635167800km (2718325090111867m) Copyrights: James McCormac More sizes can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmccormac001/8555077162/sizes/l/in/photostream/ 8555077162_607...

Venus and Zodiacal Light Copyrights: Luis Argerich j3_EOS 6D_2013_07_07_8123_16 _small.JPG Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower Copyrights: John Chumack M20130729_044745_USA_Ohio_Meteor_small.JPG Chromosphéric Cloud Copyrights: J P Brahic S093808(260713)c.jpg Washington Monument and Venus Copyrights: Dennis...

Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) Copyrights: James Collins NGC7023c_small.JPG Witch's Broom Nebula (NGC 6960) Copyrights: Robert Fields Group1-RGB final v2 jpg_small.JPG Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31730 http://im...

NGC 6559 and some of the surrounding dark lanes in Sagittarius Copyrights: Bryan Cogdell NGC6559_BAC_webresize2_small.jpg Milky Way Galaxy Copyrights: Jonathan Minto Milkyway1_small.jpg Milkyway2_small.jpg LDN 588 in Serpens Copyrights: Mark Elvov ldn588rgbL3_small.png Comet Lemmon - July 13th Copy...

Yellowstone at Night - Milky Way arch over Old Faithful Copyrights: Wally Pacholka Yellowstone at Night - Milky Way arch over Old Faithful -500wp.jpg Venus and the Sun Copyrights: Amin Rabinia Amin_Rabinia.jpg Comet Lemmon,Open Cluster M52,Bubble Nebula(NGC 7653) & NGC 7538 in Cassiopeia region...

The eyes of spiders and stars Copyrights: Dani Caxete Sometimes in our nighttime observations, to illuminate the field with the flashlight, we have seen little lights to shine like stars. You have to try to approach off suddenly. This is due to reflection of the eyes of the spiders and their effect...

NASA Study Shows Disks Don't Need Planets to Make Patterns
Credits: NASA Goddard/W. Lyra (JPL-Caltech), M. Kuchner (Goddard)

Massive star formation
Copyrights: David A. Hardy
Image prepared for press release by Manchester University More about the topic can be found here: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1331/

Mount Gongga (Minya Konka) Copyrights: Jeff Dai minya konka1200_small.JPG Milky Way Galaxy Copyrights: Jeff Dai bamei milkyway2000_small.JPG NGC6960, the Lacework Nebula (remastered) Copyrights: Ryan M. Hannahoe in collaboration with Salvatore Grasso NGC6960-LRGB-Hannahoe-Grasso-web-large_small.JPG...

NGC 6188, NGC 6164-5, NGC 6200 Copyrights: Harel Boren NGC-6188-NGC-6164-5-1570x1043-pix-2_small.JPG Analemma of the moon Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado moanalem.jpg Summer Triangle and Milky Way above Monte Bravo Copyrights: Miguel Claro MilkyWayMonteBravoMourao-net_small.JPG MilkyWayMonteBravoMou...

Magellan Clay and the Milky Way galaxy Copyrights: Igor Chilingarian Clay_MW_20130627_v2_small.JPG Magellan Baade, zodiacal light and red airglow Copyrights: Igor Chilingarian 1391_Baade_airglow_small.JPG Milky Way galaxy and red airglow (x2) Copyrights: Igor Chilingarian MW_airglow_20130627_v2_sma...

Moon crescent, Venus and Jupiter...
Picture taken in March 2012

Einstein's Train and Milky Way Copyrights: Jordi Busqué Einstein's train, with the General Relativity field equations is in a train cemetery in Bolivia. vdB152-LRGB_small.jpg Strong Air Glow, Milky Way and the Great Lake Alqueva Copyrights: Miguel Claro MilkyWayMourao-Airglow-LABEL-net_Small.jpg La...

A Monster Sized Sunspot "AR1785 Copyrights: John Chumack sunFD070713Chumack2HRweb_small.jpg sunspot1785ChumackLRweb_small.jpg Milky Way from Mount Rainier Copyrights: Alison Mehravari 9240893331_60c0369108_b_small.jpg Larger size can be found here: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2806/9240893331...

Galactic center above the palm trees Copyrights: Yuri Beletsky jp_mw_SMALL.jpg Ghost in Cefeo Copyrights: Salvatore Spinoso vdB152-LRGB-26-20-16-21x600-bis-PS-ok_SMALL.jpg Sunrise Copyrights: Cassandra Fallscheer MKsunrise_small.jpg Clouds in Cygnus Copyrights: Cristina and Leonardo Orazi SadrWF_SN...

Sagittarius area with eleven Messier's objects
Copyright: Fernando Cabrerizo The Cygnus Wall (NGC 7000) in Hubble Pallet
Copyright: Ton and Marc Dix

Efrain Morales wrote:Saturn on July 4th, 01:30ut. The moons Tethys, Enceladus and Dione are visible in this FOV.

Truly amazing!!!

Pelican Nebula Copyrights: Robert Fields Pelican Nebula SII_Ha_OIII_small.JPG Pelican Nebula RGB_small.JPG Apocalypse now Copyright: Michael Vlasov 02.thunderstorm at sea l_small.JPG Larger version can be found here: http://www.deepskywatch.com/images/gallery/thunderstorm1/02.thunderstorm%20at%20se...