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on these celestial beauties!

Only some are illustrations; the rest are real.


This is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Image credit: NASA/GSFC


Pulsar




Titan








Starburst galaxy M82 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.


Messier 81
















M51:The Whirlpool Galaxy


The centre of the Milky Way




Mars


The moon, imaged by the Galileo spacecraft during its journey to Jupiter.


The Red Planet: Mars


Barnard 30 in the Orion Nebula. Image credit: NASA


Saturn. Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI


NGC 2903


The solar cycle
Sun follows a relatively predictable 11-year cycle of solar activity. During the solar minimum, there's very little activity, and only a handful of sunspots. During the solar maximum, there can be frequent and powerful coronal mass ejections and X-ray flares.


The Sun (you need 3-D glasses). Image credit: NASA


The Sun again.


The Orion Nebula


Saturn's icy moon: Enceladus


The Moon


Lunar Phases


Saturn Dione

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Here are some more breathtaking images!


Nebula images, amazing color gas clouds..


Nebula images


M106 by Filippo Ciferri

Plasma is known as the 4th state of matter. It is, in simple words defined as a highly ionized gaseous state. And the dust isn't the one found on earth. This one is known as Cosmic dust which is made up of very fine particles that can be found in virtually any part of the universe.


The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas
Nebulas, one of the most beautiful phenomenom in the universe, are made up of gas left behind by stars forming or exploding.


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