Sept 7, 2013
Saturn Storm Circles Planet The huge storm churning through the atmosphere in Saturn's northern hemisphere overtakes itself as it encircles the planet in this true-color view from NASA’s Cassini...
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Horsehead Nebula Revealed Stunning new view from ESA’s Herschel space observatory of the iconic Horsehead Nebula in the context of its surroundings. The image is a composite of the wavelengths of 70...
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Stunning Pleiades This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona. The Pleiades are an open cluster easily visible to the...
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Kenny Rogers Bee Anthopora bomboides collected in Allegany County, Maryland. Image: Sam Droege/Flickr
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Rodin's The Thinker Cricket Velarifictorus micado, or the Japanese burrowing cricket. Image: Sam Droege/Flickr
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Woolly Mammoth Spider Wasp Pepsis ruficornis, or the Pompilid spider wasp. Image: Sam Droege/Flickr
View ArticleSept 10, 2013
So Many Sun Loops In profile, the magnetic field lines emerging from several active regions were easily observed as they reached across from one magnetic pole to another (Sept. 4-5, 2013). When viewed...
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Moving Mars Dunes Having operated at Mars for more than seven years, MRO and the HiRISE camera continue to make new discoveries. One of these is that many sand dunes and ripples are moving, some at...
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Comet or Asteroid? With the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that what was thought to be a large asteroid called Don Quixote is in fact a comet. In Figure 1, the left...
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Atlas of Vesta's Numisia An atlas of the asteroid Vesta, created from images taken during the Dawn mission’s Low Altitude Mapping Orbit (LAMO), is now accessible for the public to explore online. The...
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Massive Galaxy Cluster This new image from Hubble of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689 shows the phenomenon of gravitational lensing with unprecedented clarity. This cluster acts like a cosmic...
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Former Martian Ice Lake Aram Chaos, the lumpy, bumpy floor of an ancient impact crater on Mars, formed as a result of catastrophic melting and outflow of a buried ice lake. A new study combines...
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Dumbbell Nebula The Dumbbell Nebula -- also known as Messier 27 or NGC 6853 -- is a typical planetary nebula and is located in the constellation Vulpecula (The Fox). The distance is rather uncertain,...
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Cosmic Alignment Comet Lemmon, GC 47 Tucanae and the SMC
Cosmic Alignment Comet Lemmon, GC 47 Tucanae and the SMC At a glance, this image may seem like a post-processed montage of objects from three separate images. However the truth is that they were all...
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