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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-11-30 Black Hole 925x1197x3
This graphic shows the computer simulation of a black hole from start to finish. Plasma is falling slowly toward the black hole in a (at the upper left). The plasma has a magnetic field, shown by the white lines.
PIA04206:
Black Hole Simulation
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.325 MB)     JPEG (106.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-01 Protostellar Disk L1157 Owens Valley Millimeter Array
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These observations of interstellar dark cloud L1157, are located in the Cepheus constellation. The multi-colored area shows a dust disk surrounding a newborn star.
PIA04211:
Protostellar Disk L1157
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.409 MB)     JPEG (34.08 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-15 Sedna Samuel Oschin Telescope
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Artist's Concept of Sedna
PIA05566:
Artist's Concept of Sedna
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-15 Sedna Samuel Oschin Telescope
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Sedna Size Comparisons (Artist's Concept_
PIA05567:
Sedna Size Comparisons (Artist's Concept_
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-15 Sedna Samuel Oschin Telescope
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Sedna Discovery Image
PIA05568:
Sedna Discovery Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-15 Sedna Samuel Oschin Telescope
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Sedna Orbit Comparisons
PIA05569:
Sedna Orbit Comparisons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-15 Sedna Samuel Oschin Telescope
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This image shows the location of the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed 'Sedna,' in relation to the rest of the solar system in 2004.
PIA05565:
Sedna Orbit Animation Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-16 Tempel 1 Kitt Peak National Observatory's 2.1 m Telescope
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Kitt Peak Observes Comet
PIA07881:
Kitt Peak Observes Comet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-03 HD 189733 1088x745x3
This artist concept shows the planetary system called HD 189733, located 63 light-years away in the constellation Velpecula.
PIA12505:
Probing Exoplanets From the Ground (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.435 MB)     JPEG (122.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-14 Hale Telescope
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This image taken with the Palomar Observatory's Hale Telescope, shows the light from three planets orbiting a star 120 light-years away. The planets' star, called HR8799, is located at the spot marked with an 'X.'
PIA13034:
Portrait of Distant Planets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.363 MB)     JPEG (21.36 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-14 4000x2666x3
Astronomers have obtained the first clear look at a dusty disk closely encircling a massive baby star; this artist's concept shows what such a massive disk might look like.
PIA13275:
Disk Around a Massive Baby Star (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (31.99 MB)     JPEG (690 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-28 VB 10 2400x3000x3
This artist's diagram compares our solar system (below) to the VB 10 star system. Astronomers successfully used the astrometry planet-hunting method for the first time to discover a gas planet, called VB 10b, around a very tiny star, VB 10.
PIA12014:
Bizarre Planetary System (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-28 VB 10 3000x2400x3
This artist's concept shows the smallest star known to host a planet. The planet, called VB 10b, was discovered using astrometry, a method in which the wobble induced by a planet on its star is measured precisely on the sky.
PIA12015:
A Planet as Big as its Star (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (416 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-09 Adaptive Optics System and Coronagraph
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These two images show HD 157728, a nearby star 1.5 times larger than the sun. Project 1640 uses new technology on the Palomar Observatory's 200-inch Hale telescope near San Diego, Calif., to spot planets.
PIA15807:
Using 'Dark Holes' to Spot Planets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.898 MB)     JPEG (105.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-31 1259x944x3
Artist's concept illustrates a quasar, or feeding black hole, similar to APM 08279+5255, where astronomers discovered huge amounts of water vapor. Gas and dust likely form a torus around the central black hole, with clouds of charged gas above and below.
PIA16114:
Quasar Drenched in Water Vapor (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-15 2400x2400x3
This image of the Beehive star cluster points out the location of its first known planets, Pr0201b and Pr0211b, or, as astronomers call them, the first 'b's' in the Beehive.
PIA15801:
Bees in the Beehive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-15 4800x2700x3
Astronomers have discovered two gas giant planets orbiting stars in the Beehive cluster, a collection of about 1,000 tightly packed stars.
PIA15802:
Starry Starry Skies (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-18 1439x1080x3
Researchers are brewing up icy, organic concoctions in the lab to mimic materials at the edge of our solar system and beyond. The lab is shown at right, and a very young solar system, with its swirling planet-forming disk is at left.
PIA15805:
Ice from the Solar System's Edge (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-07 934x935x3
Two young binary stars may be the source of mysterious clock-like bursts of light from an object called LRLL 54361 that lies inside the star-forming region IC 348, located 950 light-years away.
PIA16689:
Artist's Impression of Pulsating Object LRLL 54361
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-29 55 Cancri 3000x2400x3
Artist's concept compares a hypothetical solar system centered around a tiny 'sun' to a known solar system centered around a star 55 Cancri.
PIA03604:
Itsy Bitsy Solar System (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-06 Pleiades Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
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The stars of the Pleiades cluster, also known by the names
PIA08260:
The Seven Sisters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-07-23 HD339457 Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
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Reconditioning of Cassini Narrow-Angle Camera
PIA03477:
Reconditioning of Cassini Narrow-Angle Camera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-30 Pleiades Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
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The Cassini spacecraft takes a break from the Saturn system to check out the Seven Sisters.
PIA11482:
Scoping the Sisters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-20 Sol (our sun) Cassini-Huygens
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Particles from the Heliosphere
PIA12374:
Particles from the Heliosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-15 Sol (our sun) Cassini-Huygens
 MIMI
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As the solar wind flows from the sun, it creates a bubble in space known as the
PIA12310:
The Bubble of Our Solar System Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-06 Chandra X-ray Observatory
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Kepler's Supernova Remnant: A View from Chandra X-Ray Observatory
PIA06908:
Kepler's Supernova Remnant: A View from Chandra X-Ray Observatory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-25 Chandra X-ray Observatory
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Stacks of Light
PIA10092:
Stacks of Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-17 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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This composite of 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula, contains data from Chandra (blue), Hubble (green), and Spitzer (red). Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula Nebula is one of the largest star-forming regions close to the Milky Way.
PIA14415:
A New View of the Tarantula Nebula
Full Resolution:     TIFF (31.1 MB)     JPEG (1.774 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-10 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
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In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories -- Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory -- have produced a matched trio of images of the central region of our Milky Way.
PIA12348:
Great Observatories' Unique Views of the Milky Way
Full Resolution:     TIFF (141.8 MB)     JPEG (3.839 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-03 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
IRAC
Visible-Light
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The tip of the 'wing' of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA's Great Observatories. The SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy.
PIA16884:
Taken Under the 'Wing' of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Full Resolution:     TIFF (38.89 MB)     JPEG (1.685 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-13 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
Very Large Space Telescope (VLT)
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The spiral galaxy NGC 3627, located about 30 million light years from Earth as seen by four NASA telescopes; inset shows the central region, which contains a bright X-ray source that is likely powered by material falling onto a supermassive black hole.
PIA15806:
NGC 3627: Revealing Hidden Black Holes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-07 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Isaac Newton Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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The Milky Way and other galaxies in the universe harbor many young star clusters and associations that each contain hundreds to thousands of hot, massive, young stars known as O and B stars.
PIA16438:
A Nearby Stellar Cradle
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-06 NGC 6193 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
IRAC
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RCW 108: Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth
PIA11226:
RCW 108: Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth
Full Resolution:     TIFF (31.04 MB)     JPEG (524.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-12 Cepheus B Chandra X-ray Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
IRAC
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This composite image, combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the star-forming cloud Cepheus B, located in our Milky Way galaxy about 2,400 light years from Earth
PIA12169:
Trigger-Happy Cloud
Full Resolution:     TIFF (29.69 MB)     JPEG (402.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-29 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
IRAC
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A composite image from NASA's Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star, a supernova remnant called G54.1+0.3. The white source at the center is a dead star called a pulsar.
PIA12982:
Dusty Dead Star
Full Resolution:     TIFF (38.31 MB)     JPEG (303.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-06 Cassiopeia A Chandra X-ray Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
IRAC
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For the first time, a multiwavelength three-dimensional reconstruction of a supernova remnant has been created. This visualization of Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, the result of an explosion approximately 330 years ago, uses data from several NASA telescopes.
PIA11748:
Supernova Remnant in 3-D Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.035 MB)     JPEG (36.78 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-28 NGC 281 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
IRAC
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This composite image of the star cluster NGC 28 contains X-ray data from Chandra, in purple, with infrared observations from Spitzer, in red, green, blue. NGC 281 is known informally as the 'Pacman Nebula' because of its appearance in optical images.
PIA14731:
The 'Pacman Nebula'
Full Resolution:     TIFF (29.37 MB)     JPEG (797.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-24 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
IRAC
WISE Telescope
XMM-Newton X-ray
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This image combines data from four different space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova, called RCW 86.
PIA14872:
All Eyes on Oldest Recorded Supernova
Full Resolution:     TIFF (18.16 MB)     JPEG (361.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-04 Carina Dawn
 Framing Camera
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This view in the southern constellation Carina was acquired on December 13, 2007 as part of the characterization tests of the Framing Camera. The cluster of stars in the center is NGC 3532, and the nebula in the lower right is the Eta Carina Nebula.
PIA12067:
Dawn's Framing Camera Views Carina
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.092 MB)     JPEG (282.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-04 Mars Dawn
 High Resolution Stereo Camera
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Each image on this High Resolution Stereo Camera Image Composite (HRSC) mosaic is of the same location observed by Dawn's Framing Camera when it flew by Mars to complete the spacecraft's gravity assist maneuver on February 17, 2009.
PIA12065:
Dawn's Framing Camera Flys by Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-04 Cepheus Dawn
 Framing Camera
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A star field in the constellation Cepheus is a composite of two 600-second exposures by the Framing Camera acquired during tests on December 3, 2007.
PIA12066:
Star Field in the Constellation Cepheus
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (46.93 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-18 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Hale Telescope 200-inch
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Deep Impact on Its Way
PIA07266:
Deep Impact on Its Way
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-26 M11 Deep Impact
 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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Wild Duck Cluster
PIA07878:
Wild Duck Cluster
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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Deep Impact Spots Quarry
PIA07879:
Deep Impact Spots Quarry
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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Tempel 1 First Op-Nav
PIA07880:
Tempel 1 First Op-Nav
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-02 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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Space Eyes See Comet Tempel 1 (Artist's Concept)
PIA03516:
Space Eyes See Comet Tempel 1 (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (15.55 MB)     JPEG (445.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-20 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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This image shows comet Tempel 1 as seen by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft on June 20, 2005. The object on the right is a star.
PIA02100:
Getting Closer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-16 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Deep Impact View of Tempel 1
PIA07998:
Deep Impact View of Tempel 1
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Deep Impact View of Tempel 1
PIA03297:
Deep Impact View of Tempel 1
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Deep Impact View of Tempel 1
PIA03298:
Deep Impact View of Tempel 1
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Tempel Poses Next to a Star
PIA03299:
Tempel Poses Next to a Star
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Capturing the Coma
PIA02101:
Capturing the Coma
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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I Spy a Comet!
PIA02102:
I Spy a Comet!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-26 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Comet Dead Ahead
PIA02103:
Comet Dead Ahead
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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On Course for a Comet
PIA02104:
On Course for a Comet
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Cometary 'Sneeze'
PIA02105:
Cometary 'Sneeze' Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (72.3 kB)     JPEG (8.569 kB)
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Closing in on a Comet
PIA02112:
Closing in on a Comet
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Analyzing a Cometary 'Sneeze'
PIA02111:
Analyzing a Cometary 'Sneeze'
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Headed Toward the Light
PIA02113:
Headed Toward the Light
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Less Than Three Days Away!
PIA02114:
Less Than Three Days Away!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Separation Anxiety Over for Deep Impact
PIA02115:
Separation Anxiety Over for Deep Impact
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 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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Impactor Eyes Comet Target
PIA02116:
Impactor Eyes Comet Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Journey to a Comet (Animation)
PIA02117:
Journey to a Comet (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
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X-ray Eyes on Tempel
PIA02118:
X-ray Eyes on Tempel
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 High Resolution Instrument (HRI)
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Tempel 1 Nucleus
PIA02119:
Tempel 1 Nucleus
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 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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Face-to-Face With a Comet
PIA02120:
Face-to-Face With a Comet
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 High Resolution Instrument (HRI)
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This image shows the initial ejecta that resulted when NASA's Deep Impact probe collided with comet Tempel 1 on July 3, 2005. It was taken by the spacecraft's high-resolution camera 13 seconds after impact.
PIA02123:
Gone in a Flash
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 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
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Bull's Eye!
PIA02121:
Bull's Eye!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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Before the Crash
PIA02124:
Before the Crash
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 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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We're Going In!
PIA02125:
We're Going In! Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (65.83 kB)     JPEG (4.034 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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Blinded by the Jets
PIA02126:
Blinded by the Jets
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 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot
PIA02127:
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
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 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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So Close You Can Almost Touch It
PIA02128:
So Close You Can Almost Touch It
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 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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Untouched Tempel
PIA02129:
Untouched Tempel
Full Resolution:     TIFF (230.9 kB)     JPEG (18.74 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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When NASA's Deep Impact probe collided with Tempel 1, a bright, small flash was created, which rapidly expanded above the surface of the comet. This flash lasted for more than a second.
PIA02131:
Moment of Impact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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This movie was taken by Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft shows the flash that occurred when comet Tempel 1 ran over the spacecraft's probe. It was taken by the flyby craft's medium-resolution camera.
PIA02130:
Impactor No More (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-06 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
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This Tempel 1 image was built up from scaling images from NASA's Deep Impact to 5 meters/pixel and aligned to fixed points. Each image at closer range replaced equivalent locations observed at a greater distance.
PIA02142:
Tempel 1 Composite Map
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.199 MB)     JPEG (121.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-20 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Infrared Spectrometer (IRS)
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This is a Tempel 1 temperature map of the nucleus with different spatial resolutions from NASA's Deep Impact mission. The color bar in the middle gives temperature in Kelvins. The sun is to the right in all images.
PIA02143:
Temperature Map of Tempel 1
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.047 MB)     JPEG (36.92 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-28 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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NASA's Deep Impact's Tempel 1 Mission Update. Images of impact taken with the medium resolution imager. The blue dotted line is the position of the spectrometer's slit.
PIA02144:
Tempel 1 Mission Update
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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NASA's Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft shows the flash that occurred when comet Tempel 1 ran over the spacecraft's probe taken by the high-resolution camera over a period of 40 seconds.
PIA02134:
Capturing the Flash Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-05 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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This image shows how NASA's Deep Impact's impactor targeted comet Tempel 1 as the spacecraft made its final approach in the early morning hours of July 4, 2005.
PIA02136:
A Cyber-Astronaut's Final Moves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-06 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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This image of the surface of comet Tempel 1 was taken about 20 seconds before NASA's Deep Impact's probe crashed into the comet on July 3, 2005. This particular region contains the impact site.
PIA02138:
Wipe Out
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-08 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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This false-color image shows comet Tempel 1 about 50 minutes after NASA's Deep Impact's probe smashed into its surface. The impact site is located on the far side of the comet in this view.
PIA02139:
Comet Tempel's Silhouette
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-11 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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NASA's Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft took this image after it turned around to capture last shots of a receding comet Tempel 1. Earlier, the mission's probe had smashed into the surface of Tempel 1.
PIA02140:
Tempel Fades into Night Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 High Resolution Instrument (HRI)
Infrared Spectrometer
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This image composite shows comet Tempel 1 in infrared light . The infrared picture highlights the warm, or sunlit, side of the comet, where NASA's Deep Impact probe later hit.
PIA02132:
Sunny Side of a Comet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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This image shows NASA's Deep Impact's impactor probe approaching comet Tempel 1. It is made up of images taken by the probe's impactor targeting sensor on July 4, 2005. Animation available at the Photojournal.
PIA02135:
One-Way Trip to Tempel Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-20 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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The image depicts the first moments after NASA's Deep Impact's probe interfaced with comet Tempel 1. The illuminated, and possibly incandescent, debris is expanding from the impact site.
PIA02141:
First Contact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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This image shows the view from NASA's Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft as it turned back to look at comet Tempel 1. Fifty minutes earlier, the spacecraft's probe was run over by the comet.
PIA02133:
Looking Back at a Job Well Done
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-05 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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This spectacular image of comet Tempel 1 was taken 67 seconds after it obliterated NASA's Deep Impact's impactor spacecraft.
PIA02137:
Tempel Alive with Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-01 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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This image is from an animation that chronicles the travels of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, from its launch in January of 2005 to its dramatic impact 172 days later with comet Tempel 1.
PIA02106:
The Road to Tempel (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-03 Borrelly Deep Space 1 (DS1)
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Early Close Image of Comet Borrelly
PIA03506:
Early Close Image of Comet Borrelly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-01-10 ESO Very Large Telescope
Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Spitzer Space Telescope
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This composite of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is 522,000 light-years across, making it about five times the size of the Milky Way.
PIA16613:
Dwarf Galaxy Spotted
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-11 Exoplanet
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A hypothetical planet is depicted in this artist's concept moving through the habitable zone and then further out into a long, cold winter.
PIA15800:
Eccentric Habitable Zones (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-28 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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This image was taken on May 21 and 22, 2003, by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data gathered during the missions 'first light' milestone, and shows celestial objects in the constellation Hercules.
PIA04279:
GALEX 1st Light Near Ultraviolet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-11 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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This image of the Globular cluster Messier 2 (M2) was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer on August 20, 2003. This image is a small section of a single All Sky Imaging Survey exposure of only 129 seconds in the constellation Aquarius.
PIA04926:
Globular Cluster Messier 2 in Aquarius
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-09 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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From sparkling blue rings to dazzling golden disks and mined from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Survey of Nearby Galaxies data, these cosmic gems were collected with the telescope's sensitive ultraviolet instruments.
PIA03295:
GALEX Distributes Local Galactic Treasures at AAS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer is celebrates its fourth year in space with some of M81's 'hottest' stars. In this ultraviolet image, the magnificent M81 spiral galaxy is shown at the center.
PIA09337:
Galaxy Mission Completes Four Star-Studded Years in Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-15 Mira Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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New ultraviolet images from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows a speeding star that is leaving an enormous trail of 'seeds' for new solar systems. The star, named Mira (pronounced my-rah) after the latin word for 'wonderful.'
PIA09958:
Mira Soars Through the Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-03 NGC 3242 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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This ultraviolet image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 3242, a planetary nebula frequently referred to as 'Jupiter's Ghost.' The small circular white and blue area at the center of the image is the well-known portion of the nebula.
PIA11968:
The Extended Region Around the Planetary Nebula NGC 3242
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-19 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory combined data making this diagram illustratrating the extent to which astronomers have been underestimating the proportion of small to big stars in certain galaxies.
PIA12174:
Adding up Stars in a Galaxy
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