Saturn’s Iapetus, the ‘Painted Moon.’ Photo by the Cassini Imaging team.
NGC 6369: The Little Ghost Nebula. Photo by Hubble Heritage.
A two-fer of images from the incomparable Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, enhanced form a 1979 Voyager image // via APOD.
Sol
Solar flare on March 7, 2011
From NASA/Goddard’s Solar Dynamics Library.
Persistent Active Region, Jan. 29-31, 2011
From NASA Goddard’s Flickr stream.
Dancing Auroras
Infrared image of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
via APOD.
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