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Space

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Amazing what images can be captured with some of our huge telescopes.

Saturn storm

The first person in space, Yuri Gagarin, aboard Vostok prior to blast off, April 12, 1961

The Hourglass Nebula 8,000 light years away.

Using Gravity to Peer into the Most Violent Places in the Universe: Colliding Black Holes

Soviet propaganda poster - peace in space!

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва) a Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman in space.

Yuri

What if?

Angling Saturn | Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Saw Endeavour today flying over Pasadena very very low. Very impressive.

Victoria Crater, Mars

NASA's pictures of the eruption on the sun are amazing!

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, is an orbiting space telescope observing the universe in ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the history of star formation in the universe.

Long exposure photos taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit from the International Space Station.

Star trails taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit from the International Space Station.

Michael Benson Saturn, Mimas and Tethys, Cassini, July 16, 2005, 2011

Michael Benson Night Side of Saturn, Cassini, October 28, 2006, 2011

Michael Benson The Ultraviolet Sun, TRACE, July 30, 1999, 2010

Michael Benson Uranus with Rings, Voyager, January 24, 1986, 2010

Michael Benson Volcanic Io with Two Eruptions Visible, Galileo, July 3, 1999, 2010

Stunning Star Trail Photographs from the International Space Station taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit

Shuttle Endeavour Punching a Hole in the Sky by Trey Ratcliff

Space Shuttle flies over NYC. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A ring of fire is seen over Tokyo during the annular eclipse Picture: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/GettyImages

Combination picture of an annular solar eclipse where the moon passes in front of the sun.

Tycho's Supernova Remnant

In the center of a swirling whirlpool of hot gas

What is creating the strange texture of IC 418?

The Sleeping Beauty galaxy may

Believe it or not, this is the North Pole of Saturn.

How do spiral galaxies form stars?

What shapes the remarkable dust tapestry of the nearby Milky Way Galaxy?

The Once and Future Stars of Andromeda

The Sun Unleashed

In the Vicinity of the Cone Nebula

Fast Gas Bullet from Cosmic Blast N49

Light Echoes from V838 Mon

When the price gets down to a mere $50,000, then I'm booking a ticket on Virgin Galactic to see the curvature of the earth which I missed with the Concorde.

Layered Hills in Arabia Terra on Mars - Where is John Carter?

Deep Orion Over the Canary Islands - My Middle Name is Orion

Angry Sun Erupting

White dwarf in the constellation Aquarius

Star Formation in Orion

Herschel Sees Through Ghostly Pillars

Milky way

Earth from space

Bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106

Gas clouds in the constellation Orion