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THE CLEAREST IMAGE OF THE PLANET EVER SEEN

Check out a picture of Earth showing the entire North American continent, Central America, the northern half of South America, Greenland and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Researchers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre have released the clearest and most complete image of Planet Earth ever seen.
Compiled by imagery from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imagining Spectroradiometer [...]

ANDROMEDA: IMAGES OF OUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBOUR

NASA has released some amazing images of our nearest galactic neighbour, Andromeda.
It’s 2.5 million light-years away from our own Milky Way Galaxy, but one day — approximately 4.5 billion years from now — our worlds will collide.
Until that comes, CLICK HERE to see more views from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which used [...]

LAST MANNED SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION SCHEDULED

With the last shuttle mission scheduled for September 16, 2010, the iconic NASA space shuttle Endeavour will soon become a collectors item.
The Endeavour and Atlantis shuttles could be set to join shuttle Discovery as the most expensive boys toy in existence.
For $28 million, NASA will transport the iconic space vehicles across the country [...]

EARLIEST IMAGE OF THE UNIVERSE RELEASED

NASA announced today that the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped baby pictures of the “primordial” universe about 600 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest images ever.
Branded as “time machine” photos, the images show the young universe when it was about 13 billion years old and reveal “a primordial population of compact and [...]

CALIFORNIA MAN CAPTURES RARE EPIC METEOR

Taken from the Mojave Desert area near Victorville under a very dark and mostly clear sky, astro-photogrpaher Wally Pacholka captured this amazing picture during the annual cosmic fireworks show — the Geminid meteor shower.
The meteor shower has been growing in intensity in recent decades and was an even better holiday treat than usual this [...]

THE CHRISTMAS TREE NEBULA

Check out an image of NGC 2264 — or as it is more commonly known, The Christmas Tree Nebula.
From his garden in New Forest, England, Professor Greg Parker takes detailed images of deep space which are now collected in his book, Star Vistas.
Included in the book is this image The Christmas Tree Nebula.