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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Major-element Composition of Mercury Surface Materials
PIA14341:
Major-element Composition of Mercury Surface Materials
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-17 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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The immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31, is captured in full in this image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, and is located 2.5 million light-years from our sun.
PIA12832:
Our Neighbor Andromeda
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-06 Carina Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This infrared snapshot of a region in the constellation Carina near the Milky Way was taken shortly after NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ejected its cover. The 'first-lighy' picture shows thousands of stars and covers an area three times the s
PIA12486:
WISE 'First-Light' Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-06 Cassiopeia Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This mosaic of images from NASA's WISE Telescope is in the constellation of Cassiopeia. This region contains a large star forming nebula within the Milky Way Galaxy, sometimes called the Heart Nebula, and is over 6 thousand light-years from Earth.
PIA12865:
Maffei 1 and 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-13 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This picture of the open star cluster NGC 7380 is a mosaic of images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission spanning an area on the sky of about 5 times the size of the full Moon.
PIA12868:
NGC 7380
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-26 C/2008 Q3 (Garradd) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is a mosaic of 3 individual WISE frames spanning an area on the sky about 7 times the size of the full Moon in portions of the constellations Bootes and Canes Venatici.
PIA12985:
M3 & Comet Garradd
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-16 Perseus Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is a view within the constellation Cassiopeia of another portion of the vast star forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.
PIA13044:
IC 1795
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-23 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is a view of an area of the sky over 12 times the size of the full Moon on the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Corona Australis.
PIA13064:
Star Clusters Young and Old, Near and Far
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-30 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This heroic image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is of a special cloud of dust and gas in the constellation Canis Major catalogued as NGC 2359, or more commonly known as Thor's Helmet.
PIA13083:
Thor's Helmet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-20 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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The Seagull nebula, seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, draws its common name from it resemblance to a gull in flight.
PIA13111:
Seagull Nebula -- Running with the Big Dog
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-24 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a huge mosaic of two bubbling clouds in space, known as the Heart and Soul nebulae.
PIA13112:
Heart and Soul
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-07 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This mosaic image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is located in a constellation in the southern sky, Pavo, which is Latin for peacock.
PIA13114:
NGC 6744 -- A Sibling of the Milky Way
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-14 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer features comet 65/P Gunn. Comets are balls of dust and ice left over from the formation of the solar system. The comet's tail is seen here in red trailing off to the right of the comet's nucleus.
PIA13115:
WISE Catches Comet 65P/Gunn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-06 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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Sending chills down the spine of all arachnophobes is the Tarantula nebula, seen in this image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer; the nebula is the largest star-forming region known in our entire Local Group of galaxies.
PIA13118:
WISE Spies the Tarantula Nebula
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer takes in several interesting objects in the constellation Cassiopeia which are not easily seen in visible light. The red circle visible at upper left is SN 1572, often called Tycho's Supernova.
PIA13119:
Tycho's Supernova Remnant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-16 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image is an all-sky infrared map consisting of data taken by previous missions: the Infrared Astronomical Satellite; NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer; and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey.
PIA13120:
WISE Eyes the Whole Sky Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-16 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image shows the famous Pleiades cluster of stars as seen through the eyes of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer; they are what astronomers call an open cluster of stars, loosely bound to each other to eventually go their separate ways.
PIA13121:
Seven Sisters Get WISE
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-27 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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New stars are forming inside this giant cloud of dust and gas as seen in infrared light by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, spanning across the constellation Vela.
PIA13122:
WISE Peers into the Stellar Darkness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-16 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a favorite observing target of amateur astronomers, Omega Centauri. This celestial cluster of stars can be found in the constellation Centaurus.
PIA13125:
Omega Centauri
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-02 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer has uncovered a striking population of young stellar objects in a complex of dense, dark clouds in the southern constellation of Circinus.
PIA13443:
Star Formation in the Circinus Molecular Cloud Complex
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-02 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This mosaic image taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, features three nebulae that are part of the giant Orion Molecular Cloud. Included in this view are the Flame nebula, the Horsehead nebula and NGC 2023.
PIA13448:
A Flame in Orion's Belt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-04 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows of one of our closest neighboring galaxies, Messier 33. Also named the Triangulum galaxy, M33 is one of largest members in our small neighborhood of galaxies -- the Local Group.
PIA13452:
WISE Spies a Galactic Neighbor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-18 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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On the morning of February 1, 2011, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, took its last snapshot of the sky. WISE's final picture shows thousands of stars in a patch of the Milky Way galaxy in the constellation Perseus.
PIA13458:
WISE's Last Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-01 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This large mosaic image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, features the wreckage of an exploded star, as well as other stars nearing the end of their lives.
PIA13885:
Beyond the Veil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-08 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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In the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, opposite the galactic center, lies the nebula SH 2-235. As seen in infrared light, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer reveals SH 2-235 to be a huge star formation complex.
PIA13995:
WISE Eyes Evolution of Massive Stars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-14 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, shows a giant nebula around Lambda Orionis, inflating Orion's head to huge proportions.
PIA14040:
Orion's Big Head Revealed in Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-05 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, shows three different nebulae located in the constellation of Perseus. NGC 1491 is seen on the right side of the image, SH 2-209 is on the left side and BFS 34 lies in between.
PIA14092:
Nebulae: Not as Close as They Appear
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-09 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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Best known as a swan winging its way across the night, the constellation Cygnus is easily seen in the northern hemisphere's summertime sky. NASA's WISE telescope captured this image of a huge complex of star-forming clouds and stellar clusters.
PIA14102:
Star Formation in the Heart of the Swan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-24 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer highlights several star-forming regions. There are five distinct centers of star birth in this one image alone. The largest, brightest cloud, in the upper right is known as Gum 22.
PIA14105:
Star Formation Everywhere You Look
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-25 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer takes in an area of the sky in the constellation of Scorpius surrounding Jabbah (Arabic name means 'the forehead of the scorpion') which is larger than a grid of eight by eight full moons.
PIA14881:
Jabbah and Associates
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-29 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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With its all-sky infrared survey, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has identified millions of quasar candidates. Quasars are supermassive black holes with masses millions to billions times greater than our sun.
PIA15810:
A Sky Chock-Full of Black Holes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-05 Orion Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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The Orion nebula is featured in this sweeping image from NASA's WISE. The constellation of Orion is prominent in the evening sky throughout the world from about December through April of each year.
PIA16684:
The Cosmic Hearth
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-02 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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Probing Jupiter's atmosphere for the first time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's new Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) provides a sharp glimpse of the planet's ring, moon, and high-altitude clouds.
PIA01255:
Hubble Provides Infrared View of Jupiter's Moon, Ring, and Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-02 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a picture of a 400-km-high (250-mile-high) plume of gas and dust from a volcanic eruption on Io, Jupiter's large innermost moon.
PIA01256:
Hubble Captures Volcanic Eruption Plume From Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-02 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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These images, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal changes in Jupiter's auroral emissions and how small auroral spots just outside the emission rings are linked to the planet's volcanic moon, Io.
PIA01257:
Hubble Images Reveal Jupiter's Auroras
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-02 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant planet, on July 24, 1996. The conspicuous black spot on Jupiter is Io's shadow.
PIA01258:
Rare Hubble Portrait of Io and Jupiter
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope pair of images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io shows the surprising emergence of a 200-mile diameter large yellowish-white feature near the center of the moon's disk (photo on the right).
PIA01260:
Hubble Discovers Bright New Spot on Io
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This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope 'family portrait' of the four largest moons of Jupiter, Io, Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede,first observed by the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei nearly four centuries ago.
PIA01261:
Hubble Gallery of Jupiter's Galilean Satellites
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These four NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter, as seen in visible (violet) and far-ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, show the remarkable spreading of the clouds of smoke and dust thrown into the atmosphere.
PIA01266:
Jupiter's Upper Atmospheric Winds Revealed in Ultraviolet Images by Hubble Telescope
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This picture is a composite of a black and white near infrared image of Jupiter and its satellite Io and a color image of Io at shorter wavelengths taken at almost the same time on March 5, 1994 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
PIA01267:
Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Volcanoes on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This series of 10 Hubble Space Telescope images, taken on Nov. 21, 1995, captures several small moons orbiting Saturn. Hubble snapped the five pairs of images while the Earth was just above the ring plane and the Sun below it.
PIA01271:
Moons Around Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of Saturn with its rings barely visible. Normally, astronomers see Saturn with its rings tilted. Earth was almost in the plane of Saturn's rings, thus the rings appear edge-on.
PIA01272:
Edge-on View of Saturn's Rings
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Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture taken on August 10, 1995.
PIA01273:
Hubble again views Saturn's Rings Edge-on
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This four-picture sequence (spanning 30 minutes) shows one of four moons discovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, in images taken of Saturn on May 22, 1995, when Saturn's rings were tilted edge-on to Earth.
PIA01274:
Hubble Discovery Image of New Moon Orbiting Saturn
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured Saturn on May 22, 1995 as the planet's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This ring-plane crossing occurs approximately every 15 years when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01275:
Saturn's Rings Edge-on
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This sequence of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on May 22, 1995, documents a rare astronomical alignment, Saturn's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This occurs when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01276:
Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing
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This sequence of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on May 22, 1995, documents a rare astronomical alignment, Saturn's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This occurs when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01277:
Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing (Satellites Labeled)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Uranus Hubble Space Telescope
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Uranus reveals the planet's rings, at least five of the inner moons, and bright clouds in the planet's southern hemisphere.
PIA01281:
Hubble Observes the Moons and Rings of Uranus
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Uranus reveals the planet's rings and bright clouds and a high altitude haze above the planet's south pole.
PIA01282:
Hubble Observes the Planet Uranus
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-09-26 Titan Hubble Space Telescope
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Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. Images were captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during 14 observing runs between Oct. 4 - 18.
PIA01465:
Hubble Observes Surface of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-21 Moon Hubble Space Telescope
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Hubble shoots the moon in a change of venue from peering at the distant universe, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a look at Earth's closest neighbor in space, the Moon.
PIA01541:
Crater Copernicus
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-18 Venus Hubble Space Telescope
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Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken on January 24 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 70.6 million miles (113.6 million kilometers) from Earth.
PIA01544:
Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble
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This is a spectacular NASA Hubble Space Telescope close-up view of an electric-blue aurora that is eerily glowing one half billion miles away on the giant planet Jupiter.
PIA03155:
Satellite Footprints Seen in Jupiter Aurora
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These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03156:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03158:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1996
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03159:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1997
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03160:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1998
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03161:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1999
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03162:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 2000
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-15 Hubble Space Telescope
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Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this 'deepest-ever' view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field, made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
PIA12110:
Hubble Deep Field Image Unveils Myriad Galaxies Back to the Beginning of Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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This synthesized composite of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images captures the positions of comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never-before-seen close passage of a comet by the Red Planet.
PIA17802:
Close Encounters: Comet Siding Spring Seen Next to Mars (Synthesized Image)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-08 Vesta Dawn
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped these images of the asteroid Vesta in preparation for the Dawn spacecraft's visit in 2011. The images show the difference in brightness and color on the asteroid's surface.
PIA13428:
The Faces of Vesta
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Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the potato-shaped asteroid in preparation for the visit by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in 2011. This is one frame from a movie showing the difference in brightness and color on the asteroid's surface.
PIA13427:
A New Spin on Vesta
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-21 Io Hubble Space Telescope
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While hunting for volcanic plumes on Io, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured these images of the volatile moon sweeping across the giant face of Jupiter.
PIA01540:
Hubble Clicks Images of Io Sweeping Across Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-17 Jupiter Juno
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Radio emissions collected during Juno's June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede are presented here, both visually and in sound.
PIA25030:
Audio of Juno's Ganymede Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-07 Earth WATSON
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During 2019 field tests near Greenland's Summit Station,the WATSON instrument is put through its paces to seek out signs of life, or biosignatures, 360 feet (110 meters) down a borehole.
PIA24169:
WATSON's Field Test in Greenland
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The tether attached to the top of WATSON and the drill also acts as the power cable and data feed. Care must be taken to ensure a tight connection between the tether and instrument, else the instrument could be lost in the ice.
PIA24170:
Preparing WATSON for Borehole Descent
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WATSON produced this fluorescence map of a borehole in Greenland's ice. The left panel shows nebulous blobs of biosignatures, and the right panel shows a colorized version, grouping together similar organic chemicals.
PIA24140:
Fluorescence Map of a Greenland Borehole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence for a material dubbed 'dirt' in Saturn's rings.
PIA06350:
'Dirty Rotten' Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The glow of Titan's extensive atmosphere shines in false colors in this view of Saturn's gas-enshrouded moon acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer during the July 2, 2004, flyby.
PIA06418:
Glowing Titan
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The glow of Titan's extensive atmosphere shines in false colors in this view of Saturn's gas-enshrouded moon acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer during the July 2, 2004, flyby.
PIA06419:
Glowing Titan
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These images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the surface of Titan at two different infrared wavelengths revealing complex landforms with sharp boundaries.
PIA06982:
Behold Titan's Surface
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These two color composite images of Saturn's moon Iapetus from NASA's Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer were obtained on Dec. 31, 2004, an hour and a half before the New Year.
PIA07000:
VIMS Iapetus Two Shooter
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This color composite image of Saturn's moon Iapetus from NASA's Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer was obtained on Dec. 31, 2004.
PIA07002:
VIMS Shows Iapetus Surface Composition
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NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer analyzed the surface composition of Saturn's moon Iapetus as Cassini flew over the polar region on Dec. 31, 2004.
PIA07003:
Iapetus Surface Composition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This map of a portion of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan shows predictions for the areas that will be covered by selected combinations of images anticipated from the camera on Huygens probe as it descends through Titan's atmosphere.
PIA07229:
Expected Footprints of 36-Image Panoramas from Huygens Camera
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On Oct. 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew over Saturn's moon Titan at less than 1,200 kilometers at closest approach. Cassini acquired several infrared images with spatial resolution ranging from a few tens of kilometers to 2 kilometers per pixel.
PIA07961:
Map of Titan in Infrared
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Details of the circular feature, which scientists think is an ice volcano, which could be a source of methane in Titan's atmosphere, show up at wavelengths larger than 1.3 microns. Images were taken during NASA's Cassini Oct. 26, 2004, flyby of Titan.
PIA07963:
Titan Volcano in Several Infrared Wavelengths
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This false-color mosaic of Saturn's largest moon Titan, obtained by NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows what scientists interpret as an icy volcano.
PIA07965:
Titan Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This visual and infrared mapping spectrometer image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Enceladus, shows the dark cracks at the south pole dubbed 'tiger stripes' for their distinct stripe-like appearance.
PIA03551:
Tiger Stripes are Cubs
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During a non-targeted flyby by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Nov. 26, 2005, Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer measured the spectrum of the plumes originating from the south pole of the icy moon.
PIA06443:
Enceladus Plume
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This composite image, composed of two images taken with NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows a crescent view of Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA08733:
Titan's Crescent View
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This image depicts Saturn's moon Titan as seen by NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer after closest approach on a July 22, 2006, flyby.
PIA08736:
Clouds over Titan
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NASA's Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer has imaged a huge cloud system covering the north pole of Titan.
PIA09171:
Titan's Giant North Pole Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings reflect sunlight most strongly when Earth is located directly between Saturn and the sun. This mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a small bright spot moving from the outermost B ring across the Cassini Division.
PIA09213:
Cat's Eye Rings and Peek-a-boo Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-04 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Hyperion, the eighth largest of Saturn's moons, is covered in craters and landslides. This color map shows the composition of a portion of Hyperion's surface determined with the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09214:
Organics Sprinkled on Hyperion
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This is a color map of the composition of a portion of Saturn's moon Hyperion's surface about 75 kilometers on a side. Map was made with data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Hyperion.
PIA09215:
Hyperion's Kaleidoscope of Color
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a close flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007, and the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer obtained these images showing surface composition and particle size.
PIA10010:
Tiny Grains on Iapetus
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a close flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007, and the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer obtained these images during that event.
PIA10011:
Iapetus' Equatorial Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Change is detected on Saturn's moon Titan, in these three composite images from data taken during flybys in October 2005, January 2006 and March 2006 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11700:
Titan's Chilly Volcanoes?
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This infrared projection map of Titan was composed from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.
PIA11701:
Infrared Map of Titan's Active Regions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This infrared image taken by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Hotei Arcus, a region on Saturn's moon Titan where changes in brightness have been measured several times during the last four years.
PIA11839:
Hotei Arcus in Infrared
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Lots of clouds are visible in this infrared image of Saturn's moon Titan. These clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower, more lingering fashion, new results from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show.
PIA12004:
Titan's Lingering Clouds
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This infrared image of Saturn's moon Titan shows a large burst of clouds in the moon's south polar region. These clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower, more lingering fashion.
PIA12005:
Titan's South Polar Cloud Burst
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2009, shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn's moon Titan. The glint off a mirror-like surface is known as a specular reflection.
PIA12481:
Reflection of Sunlight off Titan Lake
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This pair of false-color images, made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows clouds covering parts of Saturn's moon Titan in yellow, while Titan's hazy atmosphere appears magenta.
PIA13400:
Clouds Clearing around Titan's North Pole
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This graphic, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the percentage of cloud coverage across the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. The color scale from black to yellow signifies no cloud coverage to complete cloud coverage.
PIA13401:
Mapping Titan's Cloud Coverage
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained these false-color images of a circular feature in a region known as Xanadu on Saturn's moon Titan. The images show Titan in infrared wavelengths of radiation.
PIA14311:
Circular Feature at Xanadu, Titan
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This series of false-color images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the dissolving cloud cover over the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, allowing scientists to see the underlying northern lakes and seas, including Kraken Mare.
PIA15230:
Snapshots of Titan's North Polar Cloud
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This series of images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows several views of the north polar cloud covering Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA15231:
Changes in Titan's North Polar Cloud
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