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Horsehead and Orion Nebulas
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The Galactic Center in Infrared
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Spitzer's Orion
Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula!
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Crescent Saturn
Saturn never shows a crescent phase from Earth.
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A View Toward M106
Big, bright, beautiful spiral, Messier 106 dominates this cosmic vista.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Earthrise: A Video Reconstruction
About 12 seconds into this video, something unusual happens.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Arp 188 and the Tadpole's Tail
Why does this galaxy have such a long tail? In this stunning vista, based on image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Across Corona Australis
Cosmic dust clouds are draped across a rich field of stars in this broad telescopic panorama near the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Stars and Dust in Corona Australis
Cosmic dust clouds and young, energetic stars inhabit this telescopic vista, less than 500 light-years away toward the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Curiosity Vista from Vera Rubin Ridge
If you could stand on Mars -- what might you see? If you were NASA's Curiosity rover, just last month you would have seen the view from Vera Rubin Ridge, an intriguing rock-strewn perch on the side of Mount Sharp.
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