Feast Your Eyes.... Options

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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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