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Sixteen frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979 were recently reprocessed and merged to create one of the most iconic views of space exploration. Europa and Io's shadow against Jupiter and its Great Red Spot [read more: https://t.co/LqaaZx6J3X]
Our sky is alive with the streams of stars. The motions of 26 million Milky Way stars are evident in this map constructed from recent data taken by ESA's Gaia satellite. Stars colored blue are moving toward us, while red indicates away [read more: https://t.co/WQVIj5E9tz]
The cluster GAL-CLUS-022058c is composed of many galaxies and is lensing the image of a yellow-red background galaxy into arcs seen around the image center [read more: https://t.co/vw7PQXXasb]
Captured in 2015 by photographer Davide Necchi, this spiral aurora was noted by Icelanders for its great brightness and quick development. In the foreground of the featured image is the Ölfusá River while the lights illuminate a bridge in Selfoss City https://t.co/y6lTKCmJo3
A star cluster around 2 million years young surrounded by natal clouds of dust and glowing gas, M16 is also known as The Eagle Nebula. This beautifully detailed image of the region adopts the Hubble palette and includes the famous Pillars of Creation https://t.co/433GFFauyE
The center of the Lagoon Nebula is a whirlwind of spectacular star formation. Visible near the image center, at least two long funnel-shaped clouds each roughly half a light-year long, have been formed by extreme stellar winds & intense energetic starlight https://t.co/F27Odg9bx4
If not perfect then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, M74 presents a gorgeous face-on view [read more: https://t.co/rEYTd3siCH]
Which moon is this? It's Earth's moon -- but in inverted colors. Here, the pixel values corresponding to light and dark areas have been inverted, producing a false-color representation reminiscent of a black and white photographic negative [read more: https://t.co/6U0ZdgtCRQ]
This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface [read more: https://t.co/zfZdvRilaq]
The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy. This stunning telescopic image by R. Gendler & R. Croman combines data from orbiting Hubble with ground-based images from Subaru and Mayall [read more: https://t.co/Kz8JX2i8Qi]