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Mystic Mountain These dust clouds will likely be evaporated by nearby stars in a few million years

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Rosette Nebula 3,000 light years away

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NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery

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Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy

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Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray

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Largest moon in the Solar System, Ganymede

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Galaxy M101

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Here's an infographic of 25 brightest stars in the night sky

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Seagull Nebula

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M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy What can only wonder what secrets this galaxy holds

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The Fairy of Eagle Nebula

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Kemble’s Cascade of Stars

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Welcome everyone from TikTok! Here's the Ring Nebula from Webb and Hubble! Please enjoy your stay!

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Etched into the canvas of our universe is a beautiful cosmic rose made up of interacting galaxies

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Imagine filling the whole Earth with grains of sand. Now imagine each grain of sand is a star. The number of stars in the universe would be like filling billions of Earths with sand. The human mind is not capable of comprehending the true scale of our universe.

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People thought this was a meteor shower. It was actually Starship exploding and raining debris back to Earth yesterday.

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Hourglass Nebula

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The awe-inspiring Horsehead Nebula

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NGC 1566: A Spiral Galaxy from Webb (left) and Hubble (right)

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Mars Engulfed by the Moon

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NGC 1499: The California Nebula

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NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars

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LBN 86: The Eagle Ray Nebula

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North Star: Polaris and Surrounding Dust

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Jellyfish Nebula 140 light years across

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Tarantula Stars R136 from Webb

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Homunculus Nebula surrounding Eta Carinae In the 1840's, a Great Eruption of Eta Carinae unfolded. For several years, Eta Carinae became the second brightest star in our night sky. What you see today is a result of that eruption.

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LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion

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Mimas, one of Saturn's moons Commonly described as a big dirty snowball, Mimas is made up of mostly water ice with a bit of rock

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The Dark Tower in Scorpius

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The Running Chicken Nebula No, I didn't name it. I don't see the chicken either! 😅

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Heart and Soul Nebula

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Arp 273 - Interacting galaxies 300 million light years away

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Big and Small Supernova Remnants Exploded 40,000 and 50,000 years ago respectively

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Pillars of Creation in Near Infrared and Mid Infrared light

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An enormous mosaic of Stephan’s Quintet

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Centaurus A - 11 million light years away Closest active galaxy to Earth. At the center of it is a supermassive black hole.

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Cats Eye Nebula

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Clouds of Orion

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Colliding Galaxies

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Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The closest star-forming region to Earth.

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NGC 1850 168,000 light years away

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Stunning image of Venus On its way to study the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe took this picture of the nightside of Venus at a distance of 7,693 miles.

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Uranus up close Near Infrared Image

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The Butterfly Nebula

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WR 124 star is destined for a spectacular explosion Near Infrared and MIRI composite image

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Near Infrared view of the famous Pillars of Creation

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Happy New Year! 🎉 Firework Nebula - the result of a nova explosion!

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