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Gewoon iedere dag op apod.nasa.gov kijken

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Universes in mirror, like those in windshield, are larger than they appear.

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Where Water and Quakes Once Tore Across the Surface of Mars An image captured by the ESA’s Mars Express craft, as it orbited over the magnificent Martian canyon known as Valles Marineris.

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Is er nou nog steeds geen nieuws over die laatste witte stukjes die "zeker NIET" van Curiosity zelf kwamen?

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Martian fapsel.

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View from an altitude of about 120 miles above the lunar landscape in the vicinity of the Meton and Barrow Craters in the Moon's far north. Taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, September 5, 2009. NASA GSFC/Arizona State University/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures. (c) All Rights Reserved.

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View of the solar corona and magnetic loops during an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth. In this image, the outer plasma atmosphere of the Sun, 200 times hotter than the Sun's surface, is occulted by our planet. The graduated reduction in our view is due to the variable density of Earth's atmosphere, which blocks ultraviolet light. Taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, April 2, 2011. NASA GSFC/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures. (c) All Rights Reserved.

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Sunset on Mars. Appearing only about two-thirds the size it does from Earth, the Sun sets behind the 50-mile-distant rim of Gusev Crater. The blue glow is caused by light-scattering dust suspended in the atmosphere. Mosaic composite photograph. Taken by Spirit Rover, May 19, 2005. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures. (c) All Rights Reserved.

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Saturn's tiny moon Mimas in transit across rippling ring shadows on the planet's northern hemisphere during that hemisphere's winter. Mimas is only 246 miles in diameter. South is up. Mosaic composite photographs. Taken by Cassini, January 18, 2005. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures. (c) All Rights Reserved.

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Transit of Io across Jupiter. South is up in this view. Mosaic composite photograph. Taken by Cassini, January 1, 2001. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures. (c) All Rights Reserved

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Enceladus vents water into space from its south polar region. The moon is lit by the Sun on the left, and backlit by the vast reflecting surface of its parent planet to the right. Icy crystals from these plumes are likely the source of Saturn's nebulous E ring, within which Enceladus orbits. Mosaic composite photograph. Taken by Cassini, December 25, 2009. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures. (c) All Rights Reserved.

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Frosted Mars Dunes in Winter
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, November 26, 2006

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Europa, Jupiter’s Ocean Moon
Galileo, March 29, 1998

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Saturn, Mimas and Tethys
Cassini, July 16, 2005

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Valles Marineris Canyon on Mars
Viking Orbiter 1, July 16, 1978

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The mosaic we are releasing today does not contain Earth: Along with the sun, our planet is hidden behind Saturn. However, it was taken when Cassini was closer to Saturn and therefore shows more detail in the rings than the one from six years ago. It also is displayed as it truly is, in false-color ... leaving a rather eerie and surreal impression on the viewer. Of all the many glorious images we have received from Saturn, none are more strikingly unusual than those we have taken from Saturn's shadow. They unveil a rare splendor seldom seen anywhere else in our solar system. This one is our special gift to you, the people of the world, in this holiday season that brings to a close the year 2012. We fervently hope it serves as a reminder that we humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreamers, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent. We hope it reminds you to protect our planet with all your might and cherish the life it so naturally sustains.

From all of us on Cassini, the happiest of holidays to everyone.

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Morning Star | Dawn on Saturn is greeted across the vastness of interplanetary space by the morning star, Venus. Venus appears just off the edge of the planet, directly above Saturn's G ring in this image. Lower down, Saturn's E ring makes an appearance, looking blue thanks to the scattering properties of the dust that comprises the ring. [Ed.: Venus is the upper bright spot; the other white dot, near the E ring, is a distant star.]


Earth's Twin Seen From Saturn | Peering over the shoulder of giant Saturn, through its rings, and across interplanetary space, Cassini spies the white, cloudy terrestrial planet, Venus. More details and hi-res images at CICLOPS.

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http://phys.org/news/2013-03-planck-...-universe.html

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http://io9.com/if-earth-had-a-ring-l...turn-508750253

blijft gaaf.

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Je zou er zo aan gewend zijn, da's het erge.

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The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earth during a gravity assist swingby of its home planet on Aug. 2, 2005. Several hundred images, taken with the wide-angle camera in MESSENGER's Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), were sequenced into a movie documenting the view from MESSENGER as it departed Earth.

Comprising 358 frames taken over 24 hours, the movie follows Earth through one complete rotation. The spacecraft was 40,761 miles (65,598 kilometers) above South America when the camera started rolling on Aug. 2. It was 270,847 miles (435,885 kilometers) away from Earth - farther than the Moon's orbit - when it snapped the last image on Aug. 3.

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When Curiosity looks up into the sky, what does it see? On August 1st, it saw the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos and was able to capture them in a single image.
This is a raw image from Curiosity, taken from the surface of Mars. Phobos is the moon that appears larger in the image; Deimos is the smaller blob.

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Mn nerdinstincten flipten echt bij deze site:

http://nova.astrometry.net


Upload een astro-foto en je krijgt een geannoteerde terug met precies aangegeven welk stukje lucht het is.

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Ik zag hem gebruikt worden door een bot op reddit en kreeg een spontane nerdboner.

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"In the worst-case-scenario simulation, M31 slams into the Milky Way head-on and the stars are all scattered into different orbits," said Gurtina Besla of Columbia University in New York, N.Y. "The stellar populations of both galaxies are jostled, and the Milky Way loses its flattened pancake shape with most of the stars on nearly circular orbits. The galaxies' cores merge, and the stars settle into randomized orbits to create an elliptical-shaped galaxy."

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NASA recently released a 1.5 billion pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, which contains over 100 million stars and spans more than 40,000 light years – and that’s just a section of the galaxy.
This image, created from a mosaic of 411 Hubble pictures, was then used by YouTuber daveachuk to create this incredible fly-through video.



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Hubble Goes High-Definition to Revisit Iconic 'Pillars of Creation'

January 5, 2015


Although NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken many breathtaking images of the universe, one snapshot stands out from the rest: the iconic view of the so-called “Pillars of Creation.” The jaw-dropping photo, taken in 1995, revealed never-before-seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula, or M16.

Though such butte-like features are common in star-forming regions, the M16 structures are by far the most photogenic and evocative. The Hubble image is so popular that it has appeared in movies and television shows, on T-shirts and pillows, and even on a postage stamp.
And now, in celebration of its upcoming 25th anniversary in April, Hubble has revisited the famous pillars, providing astronomers with a sharper and wider view. As a bonus, the pillars have been photographed in near-infrared light, as well as visible light. The infrared view transforms the pillars into eerie, wispy silhouettes seen against a background of myriad stars. That’s because the infrared light penetrates much of the gas and dust, except for the densest regions of the pillars. Newborn stars can be seen hidden away inside the pillars.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/...s-of-creation/

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On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3.

The image above includes an image of Earth to show the size of the CME compared to the size of Earth.

Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO





SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit - 304 Angstrom NASA image captured June 6, 2012.

On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.

Credit: NASA/SDO, AIA

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http://www.iflscience.com/space/how-...e-closer-earth