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Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch
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Title: Long exposure of winter stars over the farafer gate
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Tranquility Base Panorama
On July 20, 1969 the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle safely touched down on the Moon.
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Apollo 11 Launches Humans to the Moon
Everybody saw the Moon. Nobody had ever been there.
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25 Brightest Stars in the Night Sky
Do you know the names of some of the brightest stars?
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Earthrise 1: Historic Image Remastered
"Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! Here's the Earth coming up. Wow is that pretty!"
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Ultraviolet Earth from an Observatory on the Moon
Which planet is this? Earth. The featured false color picture shows how the Earth shines in ultraviolet (UV) light.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Parker vs Perseid
The brief flash of a bright Perseid meteor streaks across the upper right in this composited series of exposures made early Sunday morning near the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Launch of the Parker Solar Probe
When is the best time to launch a probe to the Sun?
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Kepler's House in Linz
Four hundred years ago today (May 15, 1618) Johannes Kepler discovered the simple mathematical rule governing the orbits of the solar system's planets, now recognized as Kepler's Third Law of planetary motion.
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