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Unusual Sight: Space Shuttle Speeding Across the Ocean
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2012 Jun 01

Aerial view of the space shuttle replica 'Explorer' being hauled via barge to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Credit: [url=https://twitter.com/Astro_Box/]Gregory Johnson[/url].

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Bystander, you really 'tugged' on my funny-bone with this one.

Aboard the International Space Station in May 2012, Expedition 31 astronaut Don Pettit opened the shutters covering the cupola observation windows in time to watch the moon rise. The time-lapse scene was photographed from the airlock of the Station's Russian segment.

Credit: NASA

Astronaut opens up the window to see the Moon rise
Discover Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 Jun 01

Earth and Sky Photo Contest 2012
Credit: Babak Tafreshi and The World at Night (TWAN)
Base link: http://vimeo.com/41781867
TWAN link: http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/news.asp?newsID=6071

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=28508

Venus, from one side of the Sun to another
Credit: Cenk E. Tezel & Tunç Tezel
Base Link: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... o-another/
TWAN Link: http://twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3003606

Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565)
http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Galaxies/ ... GC4565.htm
Copyright: Ken Crawford

IDA: New Zealand's Aoraki Mackenzie Named Dark Sky Reserve

A truly unique perspective on astronomy and art, astronaut Don Pettit's beautiful star trail pictures taken from on board the ISS!

Image copyright: Don Pettit/NASA Image copyright: Don Pettit/NASA
more of his astounding images can be viewed at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_jsc_p ... 257865460/

RCW 24 widefield
http://www.cosmicphotos.com/gallery/ima ... lbum_id=11
Copyright: Jason Jennings

Star Trails over Mexican Hat
Copyright: Greg Brush This was an all night capture of the stars over Mexican Hat, Utah.
["My God, It's Full of Stars!"]

NGC 5367
http://www.pbase.com/kwiechen/image/143909530
Copyright: Kai Wiechen

Atacama crescents near Cerro Armazones (E-ELT site in Chile)
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... scents.htm
Copyright: Rainer Sparenberg and Stefan Binnewies

Uncovering the Veil (Nebula)
NASA Image of the Day | 2012 June 12

The Veil Nebula, left behind by the explosion of a massive star thousands of years ago, is one of the largest and most spectacular supernova remnants in the sky.

The image was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in November 1994 and August 1997.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration; Acknowledgment: J. Hester (Arizona State University)

Proposed European Extremely Large Telescope (39.3-meter)
Illustration Credit :ESO
Found link: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1225/
Note the comparative size of the cars!

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=28868

Chance Alignment Between Galaxies Mimics a Cosmic Collision
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and W. Keel (University of Alabama)
Base Link: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 9/image/a/
Asterisk Cross Post: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=28888
(Hubble Space Telescope Image)

Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Base Link: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/newsrel ... e20120613/
Asterisk Cross Post: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28884

Coffee Bean Nebula (RCW 98) widefield
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/rcw9 ... FSQ106.htm
Copyright: Steve Crouch

Late Afternoon Shadows at Endeavour Crater on Mars
or
"My Blue Mars"
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
Found: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15684

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28679

Dusty Mars Rover's Self Portrait
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
Found: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15115

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 67#p175267

Zooming in on the Center of the Milky Way
Credit: ESO/MPE/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/VISTA/J. Emerson/Digitized Sky Survey
Found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhHUNvEKUY8

Saturn, raw | Discover Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 June 17
W00074443.jpg | NASA JPL-Caltech | Cassini Solstice Mission | 2012 June 15

Dark Horse Nebula
http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/wi ... l/info.htm
Copyright: José Joaquín Pérez

2012 Noctilucent Cloud Season Begins
NASA | Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) | 2012 June 18

Milky Way to Concordia Base… Come In, Concordia Base…
Universe Today | Jason Major | 2012 June 18