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30,800 kg meteorite found in Argentina, fell 4,000 years ago.
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August 13th Phebe Pan. Sprite, taken with a fisheye lens
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New kind of auroral arc called a "steve". Look for Purple.
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GMT Giant Magllan Telescope 6 off axis 8.4 meter segments
(Magellan is 6.5 Meter)
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James Webb space telescope, soon due for launch
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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope at Harris in Rochester.
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LIGO gravity wave discovery
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Space based gravity wave detector prototype
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New Blue Origin booster
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New GA6 space suite make by Boing
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China long march 5 rocket
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Launch of Tiangong2 chinese space station.
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Earth obsering system image, San Franciso bay
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Geos-16 image, January 23, 2017
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Geos-16 earch and moon
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Geos-16 looking at the whole planet
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ISS with Soyus docked.
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How you take a selfie in space
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Movie night on the ISS
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Cygnus resupply capsule
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Oroville spillway damage (from ISS)
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The moons poles have tiltd over time
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New and old moon north and south pole (LRO)
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Apollo Asteroid 469219 temporary moon (40-100 meters)
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NEO asteroid 2017BQ6, radar image Feb 7th (200 meters) 6.6x earth moon
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Objects currently in space
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Solar system travel history
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NASAs new "solar system" logo
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STEREO spacecraft (STEREO A back on line)
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Comet 41P/Tuttle-Biacobini-Kresak, M97 (owl) and galaxy M108
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Comet 67P, Rosetta probe
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Philae lander found on the surface
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On Sept 30, 2016 it landed on the comet
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Craters on the north pole of Ceres (Dawn probe)
1 Ceres (minor planet), north pole, some craters always in shadow
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Occator Crater high resolution
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Atmospheric wave in Venus, Akatsuki probe (Japan)
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Mars at opposition, May 12, 2016
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ESA Schiaparelli lander crash site (LRO), one landing rocket exploded.
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Mars Curiosity, the Murray Buttes
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Other side of Murray Buttes
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Layered rocks
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Layered rocks
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Murray Butte
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Cracked surface is died mud
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Meteorite on Mars
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Jupiter and the shadow of Ganeymed on the red spot
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North pole of Jupiter, Juno
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South pole
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Close up. Juno probe in "safe" mode
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Jupiter closeup
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Aurora on Jupiter
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Cassini Grand Finale orbits.
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North pole Hexagon in several filters
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North pole over 4 years
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Delphinus, shepard moon
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Daphnus waves
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Ring Peaks casting a shadow
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The rings
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Final orbit will happen on Earth side
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Pluto's ocean like a Lava Lamp
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Pluto's moon Hydra is almost all ice.
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2015 RR245 700km in size
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Proxima Centauri b 4.224 ly away
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11.186 day year, M class star
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TRAPPIST-1 system, 3 planets in the habitable zone
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Another M class star
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HD-133131
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Exoplanets in Star Cluster NGC 6811
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Nearly naked galactic black hole
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Star 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) has a black hole in orbit.
A small is trapped close to this black hole orbiting at 1/10 the speed of light
2.5 times earth moon radius
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Star Kepler 11145123
Roundest star observed only 2 miles out of round.
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The Hexlix nebula, Spitzer image, IR, larget than full moon
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Vail supernova remnant HST
Remains of 8,000 year old supernova
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HH24 colapsing star in Orion 1350 ly away
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The center of the galaxy
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Black hole in Perseus cluster, last data from Hitomi Japanese x-ray satellite
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M1 supernova HST
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Tumpler 14 star cluster HST
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IRAS 19340+2016 and IRAS19343+2026 (shaped like Enterprise)
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Black nebula
Adam Block image
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IR nebula in and around the Magellanic clouds
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NGC 5257 and NGC 5258 interacting galaxies
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NGC 4725, and minor planet Makemake
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UGC 12591 very massive galaxy
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NGC 6814 massive spiral galaxy, large active black hole in the middle
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NGC 1672 massive dust lanes
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NGC 6503 bright galaxy in a void
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NGC 1309 1/3 the size of the milky way
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NGC 2936 and NGC 2937 ripping the galaxy apart
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NGC 7318 interacting galaxies in Septhan's Quintet
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Small but massive galaxy. 99.99% dark matter
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NGC 3269, large dust cloud
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NGC 4889 in the Coma cluster
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supernova 2017dfc in M63
Actually behing 40x M63
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The great repeller