Bright Dragon’s Egg
A pair of brilliant stars is eroding a surrounding cloud of dust in this recent image from the European Southern…
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A pair of brilliant stars is eroding a surrounding cloud of dust in this recent image from the European Southern…
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This map shows the path of the April 8 total eclipse across the United States, with times of greatest eclipse…
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A pair of high-altitude NASA jets will chase the April 8 solar eclipse, as depicted in this composite image. Using…
Earth hangs above a large boulder examined by Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmidt in December 1972. A…
Thousands of galaxies crowd this Webb Space Telescope image of a giant galaxy cluster known as El Gordo–"the fat one."…
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, periodically gets walloped by comets or asteroids, producing massive explosions. The most…
A NASA technician frees the final bolts on the Osiris-Rex asteroid sample capsule after months of delays. The bolts had…
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This image reveals the aftermath of not one, but two supernova explosions in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion galaxy…
A satellite streaks in front of a pair of interacting galaxies in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The number of…
The Curiosity rover shot a series of images of its location in Gale Crater on Mars in November, which NASA…
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