On August 8, 2019, a team of atmospheric scientists got an exceedingly rare look at these clouds as they were forming. NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory passed directly through a large […]
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Reflection Nebula NGC 1999
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Cloudy Sulawesi, Indonesia
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The International Space Station was crossing over the equator when an astronaut looked east and took this photograph just after sunrise. The strip of land outlined by morning sunglint is the northern […]
Greenland, June 2019
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Steffen Olsen and his team were collecting equipment from a weather station in the Inglefield Fjord area, Greenland, and as they stepped on the 1 meter thick ice, water began […]
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Valles Marineris, Mars
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Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft. The distance is 2500 kilometers from […]
Klyuchevskaya Sopka eruption
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M87 Black Hole
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This photograph of the M87 galaxy black hole is the first image of a black hole in history! This first image of a black hole shows a bright ring with […]
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