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Little Planet
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Black Hole Safety Video
If you were a small one-eyed monster, would you want to visit a black hole?
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Eye Sky a Dragon
What do you see when you look into this sky?
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Little Planet to Exoplanets
Of course this little planet is really planet Earth in a digitally stitched 360 x 180 degree mosaic captured high in the Chilean Atacama desert.
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A Total Solar Eclipse Reflected
If you saw a total solar eclipse, would you do a double-take?
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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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La Silla Eclipse Sequence
The road to the high mountaintop La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert also led to totality in the path of July 2nd's total solar eclipse.
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Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited
This close-up was taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Little Planet Lookout
Don't panic. This little planet projection looks confusing, but it's actually just a digitally warped and stitched, nadir centered mosaic of images that covers nearly 360x180 degrees.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: R Leporis: A Vampire's Star
Better known as Hind's Crimson Star, R Leporis is a rare star in planet Earth's night sky. It's also a shocking shade of red.
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