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Mimas and blue Saturn

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Mimas and Saturn in cool blue

09/02/2005 1101 views 2 likes

Animation showing number of nearby stars with planets

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How many stars near us have planets?

01/02/2005 2183 views 2 likes

Comet Hyakutake as imaged by LASCO

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Enter SOHO's 1000th comet contest

27/01/2005 630 views 0 likes

Lunar eclipse

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Bad moon rising...

27/10/2004 2049 views 0 likes

A Perseid meteor image, recorded by an ESA video image intensifier camera

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2004 Perseids are coming

21/07/2004 1275 views 0 likes

SMART-1's view of Earth

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SMART-1 views Europe

17/06/2004 883 views 0 likes

Saturn Nebula (NGC 7009)

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Saturn Nebula (NGC 7009)

11/06/2004 5231 views 13 likes

Animated composite of 2004 Venus transit images

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Planet Venus completes transit

09/06/2004 3426 views 0 likes

The movement of Venus across the Sun on 8 June 2004

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Once in a lifetime: the Venus transit 2004

03/06/2004 4242 views 3 likes

Lunar eclipse

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Blood-red Moon

04/05/2004 5707 views 2 likes

Last chance for 'eyeful' of Saturn

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Full view of Saturn from Cassini-Huygens

29/04/2004 2174 views 0 likes

NGC 5194, heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy

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Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

09/03/2004 5025 views 13 likes

Saturn's aurorae

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Saturn's auroral light show

02/02/2004 1187 views 0 likes

EPIC camera shows the expanding rings caused by a flash of X-rays

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X-ray shout echoing through space

26/01/2004 1253 views 1 likes

NGC 3372, Carina Nebula

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Carina Nebula (NGC 3372)

14/01/2004 7480 views 15 likes

Supernova 1993J exploding (artist’s impression)

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First supernova companion star found

07/01/2004 2941 views 1 likes

NGC 6543, Cat's Eye Nebula

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Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543)

26/11/2003 5524 views 12 likes

The Leonids as seen in 2001

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Look out for the Leonids - times three!

12/11/2003 1406 views 0 likes

Checking the sky for meteors

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Listen to the Leonids...

12/11/2003 837 views 0 likes

Lunar eclipse

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See a total eclipse of the Moon

05/11/2003 2204 views 0 likes

SOHO sunspot - 23/09/2003

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Sunspot as big as three planet Earths!

01/10/2003 1230 views 0 likes

Surface of the Moon

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Close-up of the lunar surface

24/09/2003 1347 views 2 likes

Hubble's close encounter with Mars

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Latest view of Mars at closest approach

27/08/2003 1378 views 0 likes

Shortest distance between Earth and Mars

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Close encounters with Mars

25/08/2003 5163 views 5 likes

SOHO image of the Sun

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Flip a Sun's pole for more dust

20/08/2003 3423 views 9 likes

Ghostly reflections in the Pleiades

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Ghostly reflections in the Pleiades

06/08/2003 1266 views 4 likes

Checking the sky for meteors

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Shooting-star spectacle in August, 2003

06/08/2003 3852 views 1 likes

Temperature map of the Sun's corona as recorded by the EIT instrument on SOHO

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The Sun, photographed by SOHO

30/07/2003 1786 views 3 likes

Like different musical instruments, different types of stars produce different types of sound waves

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LISTEN UP!

24/07/2003 2042 views 3 likes

Horsehead Nebula

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Why are things in space the shape that they are?

23/07/2003 43138 views 95 likes

Hourglass Nebula, a planetary nebula

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The Hourglass Nebula (MyCn-18)

16/07/2003 20052 views 93 likes

XMM-Newton's Optical Monitor ultraviolet image of the spiral galaxy M81

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The spiral galaxy M81 in Ursa Major

02/07/2003 2240 views 3 likes

Mercury will pass in front of the Sun

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Mercury shows its dark side

01/05/2003 2897 views 1 likes

Finding the ashes of the first stars

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Finding the ashes of the first stars

30/04/2003 2480 views 1 likes

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A perfect storm of turbulent gases

24/04/2003 2939 views 0 likes

Hubble watches light echo from mysterious erupting star

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Hubble watches light echo from mysterious erupting star

26/03/2003 8168 views 10 likes

European astronomers observe first evaporating planet

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European astronomers observe first evaporating planet

12/03/2003 1686 views 0 likes

Blaze of stars in an old galaxy's core

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Hubble resolves a blaze of stars in galaxy's core [heic0302]

06/03/2003 1121 views 0 likes

A rose blooming in space

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A rose blooming in space

12/09/2002 920 views 1 likes

NICMOS uncovers dust layers to show inner region of dusty nebula

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Hubble's infrared camera is back in business - new images r…

05/06/2002 1908 views 2 likes

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Unusual views of the Sun

21/05/2002 1429 views 8 likes

SOHO sees a comet streak past the Sun

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Watch a comet passing near the Sun

17/04/2002 1972 views 3 likes

Hyperactive galaxy NGC 7673

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Hyperactive galaxy NGC 7673 [heic0205]

25/03/2002 1764 views 2 likes

Comet Machholz 1 seen close to the Sun by SOHO on 8 January 2002

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SOHO's private view of a sunbathing comet

08/01/2002 1609 views 0 likes

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