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Dry Ice Sled Streaks on Mars: What creates these long and nearly straight grooves on Mars?

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APOD Turns Eighteen

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Delphinid Meteor Mystery: Over a five hour period last Tuesday morning,

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Sharpless 115

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Four Planet Sunset: You can see four planets in

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Star Forming Region NGC 3582: What's happening in the NGC 3582 nebula?

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The Large Magellanic Cloud in Ultraviolet: Where are the hottest stars in the nearest galaxies?

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Messier Craters in Stereo: Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky

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NGC 6302: The Butterfly Nebula: The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth's night sky are often

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M57: The Ring Nebula: Except for the rings

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Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur: Few astronomical sights excite the imagination like the

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Curiosity: Wheels on Mars: Could life ever have existed on Mars?

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A Roll Cloud Over Uruguay: What kind of cloud is this?

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The Milky Trail: Have you ever hiked the

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The Eagle and The Swan: The Eagle Nebula and the Swan Nebula span

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One Armed Spiral Galaxy NGC 4725: While most spiral galaxies, including our

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NGC 6960: The Witch s Broom Nebula: Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of

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The Large Cloud of Magellan: The 16th century Portuguese navigator

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Bird Sun Dog: Have you ever seen a little rainbow off to the side of the Sun?

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PanSTARRS Anti Tail Grows: As planet Earth approached the plane of the

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Lunar Corona over Cochem Castle

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Caterpillar Moon: A close series of consecutive exposures are combined in this intriguing

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Messier 109: Beautiful barred spiral

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Red Sprite Lightning with Aurora: What's that in the sky?

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The Red Rectangle Nebula from Hubble: How was the unusual Red Rectangle nebula created?

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Blue Sun Bursting: Our Sun is not a giant blueberry.

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Earths Richat Structure: What on Earth is that?

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Comet PanSTARRS with Anti Tail: Once the famous

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The Waterfall and the World at Night

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Four X-class Flares: Swinging around the Sun's eastern limb on Monday,

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Kepler's Supernova Remnant in X Rays: What caused this mess?

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Partial Solar Eclipse with Airplane: It was just eight minutes after sunrise, last week, and already there were four thi...

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Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus: Sometimes the sky above can become quite a show.

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Cape York Annular Eclipse: This week the shadow of the New Moon

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Messier 77: Face on

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Ring of Fire over Monument Valley: As the New Moon

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Earth's Major Telescopes Investigate GRB 130427A: A tremendous explosion has occurred in the nearby universe and major t...

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Galaxy Cove Vista: To see a vista like this takes patience, hiking, and a camera.

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Tails of Comet Lemmon: What caused the interestingly intricate tails that Comet Lemmon displayed earlier this year?

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A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana: Is that a spaceship or a cloud?

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Hungarian Spring Eclipse: Last week, as the Sun set a Full Moon rose over

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Horsehead: A Wider View: Combined image data from the massive,

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Saturn Hurricane

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Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Cluster: This huge ball of stars predates our Sun.

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Humanity Explores the Solar System: What spacecraft is humanity currently using to explore our

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Milky Way and Stone Tree: What's that next to the Milky Way?

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A Raging Storm System on Saturn: It was one of the largest and longest lived storms ever recorded in our Solar System.

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Sharp Stereo: Get out your

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A Year on the Sun: Our solar system's

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Lunar Eclipses: The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is

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