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Cassini image of the moon Mimas in the shadow of Saturn’s rings. Enlarge to see Mimas. Via Lights in the Dark View high resolution

Cassini image of the moon Mimas in the shadow of Saturn’s rings. Enlarge to see Mimas. Via Lights in the Dark

Crescent Enceladus with Saturn’s rings. Taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 4, 2012. View high resolution

Crescent Enceladus with Saturn’s rings. Taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 4, 2012.

Saturn’s Moon, Titan, Passes by the Planet’s Rings. Via Rebecca Rosen, The Atlantic View high resolution

Saturn’s Moon, Titan, Passes by the Planet’s Rings. Via Rebecca Rosen, The Atlantic

Archive of High-Res Photos From NASA’s Gemini Missions. NASA via Wired Science.

Comet Lovejoy, photo by Dan Burbank on board the International Space Station Cue the Three Wiseguys. View high resolution

Comet Lovejoy, photo by Dan Burbank on board the International Space Station

Cue the Three Wiseguys.

Hubble Captures Nearby Spiral Galaxy “Messier 74 galaxy is located about 32 million light years away, in the direction of the Pisces constellation. It is estimated to contain about 100 billion stars, slightly less than our own galaxy, the Milky Way.” The Atlantic, Rebecca J. Rosen View high resolution

Hubble Captures Nearby Spiral Galaxy

“Messier 74 galaxy is located about 32 million light years away, in the direction of the Pisces constellation. It is estimated to contain about 100 billion stars, slightly less than our own galaxy, the Milky Way.”

The Atlantic, Rebecca J. Rosen

M3-class solar flare. Via Lights in the Dark Click image for animation. View high resolution

M3-class solar flare. Via Lights in the Dark Click image for animation.

Big Sisters — Saturn’s two largest moons, Rhea and Titan Via J. Major, Lights in the Dark Raw images taken in red, green and blue visible-light channels were combined to make this color version. The spacecraft was 1,828,949 km (1,136,456 miles) from Rhea when the images were taken. Credit: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute. Edited by Jason Major. View high resolution

Big Sisters — Saturn’s two largest moons, Rhea and Titan

Via J. Major, Lights in the Dark

Raw images taken in red, green and blue visible-light channels were combined to make this color version. The spacecraft was 1,828,949 km (1,136,456 miles) from Rhea when the images were taken.

Credit: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute. Edited by Jason Major.

J. Major, Lights in the Dark color-composite image of Saturn. Full Resolution Here View high resolution

J. Major, Lights in the Dark color-composite image of Saturn. Full Resolution Here

Equinox Revisited. J. Major, Lights In The Dark Saturn taken by Cassini during the planet’s 2009 spring equinox. View high resolution
Equinox Revisited. J. Major, Lights In The Dark

Saturn taken by Cassini during the planet’s 2009 spring equinox.

Towering Coronal Ejection. © Alan Friedman July 27, 2010 “[O]ver 200,000 miles above the surface of the sun … coronal mass ejections occur when particularly large magnetic loops filled with plasma “snap” and expel their contents into space.” Via Lights in the Dark View high resolution
Towering Coronal Ejection. © Alan Friedman July 27, 2010

“[O]ver 200,000 miles above the surface of the sun … coronal mass ejections occur when particularly large magnetic loops filled with plasma “snap” and expel their contents into space.”

Via Lights in the Dark

Out of the Blue - J. Major, Lights in the Dark: “Japan’s Akatsuki (PLANET-C) spacecraft, launched on May 20, captured this image of home as it sped away on its six-month journey to Venus. Using its ultraviolet camera Akatsuki (“Dawn” in Japanese) saw the crescent Earth as a bright electric blue from a distance of over 155,000 miles away, on May 21, 2010.” View high resolution

Out of the Blue - J. Major, Lights in the Dark:

“Japan’s Akatsuki (PLANET-C) spacecraft, launched on May 20, captured this image of home as it sped away on its six-month journey to Venus. Using its ultraviolet camera Akatsuki (“Dawn” in Japanese) saw the crescent Earth as a bright electric blue from a distance of over 155,000 miles away, on May 21, 2010.”

This movie shows the wheel tracks left by the Opportunity rover as it climbed uphill out of Victoria crater. The rover entered and exited the crater at the alcove called “Duck Bay” leaving two sets of wheel tracks on the steep hill, which is inclined at about 23 degrees. The rock cliff in the center of the movie behind the tracks is called “Cape Verde” and is about 6 meters tall (20 feet tall). That’s about twice the height of a basketball hoop. Via J. Major, Lights in the Dark

This movie shows the wheel tracks left by the Opportunity rover as it climbed uphill out of Victoria crater. The rover entered and exited the crater at the alcove called “Duck Bay” leaving two sets of wheel tracks on the steep hill, which is inclined at about 23 degrees. The rock cliff in the center of the movie behind the tracks is called “Cape Verde” and is about 6 meters tall (20 feet tall). That’s about twice the height of a basketball hoop.

Via J. Major, Lights in the Dark

From J. Major, Lights in the Dark: Saturn’s second-largest moon Rhea passes across the face of the ringed planet in this image, color-combined from three raw images taken by Cassini on May 8, 2010. The rings are seen on edge here, a dark horizontal stripe running underneath the cratered 950-mile-wide moon, their wide shadows cast onto Saturn’s atmosphere below. View high resolution

From J. Major, Lights in the Dark: Saturn’s second-largest moon Rhea passes across the face of the ringed planet in this image, color-combined from three raw images taken by Cassini on May 8, 2010. The rings are seen on edge here, a dark horizontal stripe running underneath the cratered 950-mile-wide moon, their wide shadows cast onto Saturn’s atmosphere below.