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Hubble “Rose” Image page
by yaska77 To compliment the excellent post below by tte-77 on the Hubble 21st anniversary and the Arp 273 “Rose” interacting galaxies (see here), for those of you who (like us) love these images the...
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First American Space Flight
by yaska77 On this day 50 years ago Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space when NASA controllers “lit the fuse” and launched Mercury (with sole astronaut Shepard aboard) into space...
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Tribute on Mars to Alan Shepard
by tte-77 The Freedom 7 crater on Mars - Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The team exploring Mars with NASA’s Opportunity rover for the past seven years has informally named a Martian crater for the Mercury...
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Happy 7th Orbitday Cassini!
by tte-77 Saturn's Auroras in Double Light Show, March 2011 - Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/University of Leicester On 30 June 2004 the NASA Cassini-Huygens probe successfully entered orbit around Saturn. At...
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Happy Birthday Neptune!
by foo77 Neptune has just completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery on September 23rd 1846. With the planet being 2.8 billion miles from the sun that’s an astonishing 165 years to do...
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