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Some 55 million light-years from Earth lies a galaxy known as Messier 89. The blob contains around a hundred billion stars and appears to be nearly spherical, a rarity among galaxies of its type. PHOTOGRAPH BY ESA/HUBBLE & NASA, S. FABER ET AL.
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For 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft collected infrared data on Saturn's largest moon Titan—letting astronomers create these new, detailed mosaics of the haze-covered world's surface. PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIVERSITY OF NANTES/UNIVERSITY OF A
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China's Chang'e-4 moon lander carried the Yutu-2 rover, seen here making tracks on the far side of the moon. PHOTOGRAPH BY CNSA.
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A total lunar eclipse glows red over Boston on the evening of January 20, 2019. PHOTOPGRAPH BY BABAK TAFRESHI
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Astronomers stitched together 54 Hubble images to make the highest-resolution mosaic image ever taken of the Triangulum galaxy, one of our Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbors. PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA
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After arriving at the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this picture of Earth's horizon. “I thought long about which should be my first photo from space,” he wrote on social media. “When I saw this sunrise, I immediately knew
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Is this a giant snowman, or the world's largest peanut? Neither: It's the clearest view yet of the distant Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, as seen by NASA's New Horizons probe on January 1, 2019. PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS
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As it flew by Jupiter's turbulent southern hemisphere on December 21, 2018, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this majestic view of the planet's Great Red Spot and a neighboring storm called Oval BA. PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSSS/GERALD EICHSTÄD
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On January 21, photographer Stephane Vetter captured the Matterhorn, the lunar eclipse, and a streaking meteor all in the same frame. The Beehive Cluster, an open star cluster 577 light-years away, glitters above the Matterhorn's peak. PHOTOGRAPH BY STEP
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ESO's Very Large Telescope captured the glimmer of ESO 577-24, a shell of glowing, ionized gas shrouding a dying star. The spectacle will end in a few thousand years—a blink of an eye in astronomical terms. PHOTOGRAPH BY ESA
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A total lunar eclipse looms behind the TransAmerica building in San Francisco, California. Because of a confluence of cosmic events, the celestial spectacle was dubbed a “super blood wolf moon.” PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES
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