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Animation of Mars rotating
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This phenomenal animation shows
Mars rotating over a 2.5 hour
period in Dec 2009. Note the
bluish ...
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Ghostly X-ray hand
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Enceladus plumage
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Chandra took this image of hot
gas around a pulsar.
Original ...
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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2009
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Geysers of water erupt from the
south pole of Saturn's ...
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Easter Island, Island Universe
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Virtual Sunspot
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This spectacular picture from
Easter Island shows the Milky
Way, the Magellanic clouds, and
a ...
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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2009
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This is not a real image, but a
model of a sunspot made using
complex 3d computer coding of
the ...
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Hubble spots a busy spiral
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Hubble's butterfly
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NGC 4522 is a spiral galaxy
actively churning out stars and
dust. I love all the ...
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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2009
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How appropriate that Hubble took
an image of the Butterfly Nebula
shortly after being ...
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Rosetta's Earth
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LRO spots that one small step
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The European Rosetta probe took
this dramatic crescent Earth
shot on its way past our home
world. ...
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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2009
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The LRO probe took this hi-res
image of the Apollo 11 landing
site. ...
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Erlanger Crater
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Martian Swirlies
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LRO snapped this shot of a polar
lunar crater whose rim is the
only thing lit by the ...
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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2009
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Dust devils on Mars blew away
the red dust, leaving behind
swirled tracks showing the
darker ...
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Tiny slice of Spitzer 2.5 gigapixel mosaic
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ISS transits the Moon
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800,000 Spitzer Space Telescope
images were stitched together to
make a 2.5 billion pixel survey
of ...
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Uploaded on Dec 2, 2009
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This image, taken by German
astronomer Bernhard Christ
(http://www.sternfreunde-ruessel
sheim.de/) ...
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Uploaded on Nov 15, 2009
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Snow Dalek (blog)
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Exterminate!
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Resized version of Snow Dalek
for my blog.
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Uploaded on Nov 15, 2009
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Happily, my trusty sonic
screwdriver prevented the Snow
Dalek from plunging or beating
me.
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Snow Dalek 5
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Snow Dalek 4
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