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Saturn, In Living Color

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Cassini and the Giant Peach
 NASA

Saturn looks like a giant pastel peach in this mosaic image from the Cassini orbiter, snapped May 4, 2009. The planet's rings rings cast a dramatic shadow separating the blues and greens of the northern hemisphere from the creamy pastels coloring the southern hemisphere. The mosaic combines 6 images --2 each of red, green and blue spectral filters -- to create this natural color view.

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Posted June 8, 2010
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Thor s Helmet

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Posted June 6, 2010
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Active Galaxy NGC 1275

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Posted June 4, 2010
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Saturn's Mysterious Giant Hexagon

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Scientists speculate that the six-sided shape represents the path of a jet stream, but still don't understand what controls the jet stream in such a rigid manner.

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Posted June 4, 2010
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Galaxies Like Grains of Sand

via universetoday.com

Image of the distant Universe as seen by Herschel’s SPIRE instrument.
Credit: ESA / SPIRE and HerMES consortia

Wow ! Each of the colored dots in this new image from the Herschel telescope is a galaxy containing billions of stars. These are distant luminous infrared galaxies, and appear as they did 10–12 billion years ago, packed together like grains of sand on a beach, forming large clusters of galaxies by the force of their mutual gravity.

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Posted June 2, 2010
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Infrared Earth

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Credit: JAXA.

The Earth appears as a bright orange crescent in this infrared view taken by Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft on May 21, 2010 as it headed to Venus shortly after launch.

 

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Posted May 31, 2010
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Moons and Rings Before Saturn

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Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA

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Posted May 31, 2010
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Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660

via apod.gsfc.nasa.gov

Credit & Copyright: Immo Gerber and Dietmar Hager (TAO)

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Posted May 30, 2010
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Interior structure of the Crab Nebula

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Interior structure of the Crab Nebula, thought to harbor a rapidly spinning pulsar.
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University).

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Posted May 30, 2010
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