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Apollo 8 AS-503 Saturn V

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Closeup of Fred Haise during EVA training, January 28, 1970

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Charles M. Duke, Jr., Apollo 16, NASA Images

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Moon landscape, NASA Images

Twelve people walked on the Moon in an era before cell phones, before hybrid cars, and before laptop computers. It’s time to return.

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The Sun, Alan Friedman

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Flying Saucer? Aliens? (by NASA on The Commons)

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Crab Nebula: Energy for 100,000 Suns (NASA, Chandra, 11/23/09)

A star’s spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a super dense object — called a neutron star — left behind by the explosion is seen spewing out a blizzard of high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula. X-ray data from Chandra provide significant clues to the workings of this mighty cosmic “generator,” which is producing energy at the rate of 100,000 suns.

This composite image uses data from three of NASA’s Great Observatories. The Chandra X-ray image is shown in blue, the Hubble Space Telescope optical images are in yellow and red, and the Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared image is in purple. The X-ray image is smaller than the others because extremely energetic electrons emitting X-rays radiate away their energy more quickly than the lower-energy electrons emitting optical and infrared light. Along with many other telescopes, Chandra has repeatedly observed the Crab Nebula over the course of the mission’s lifetime. The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied objects in the sky, truly making it a cosmic icon.

Read entire caption/view more images: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/crab/

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/F.Seward; Optical: NASA/ESA/ASU/J.Hester & A.Loll; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Minn./R.Gehrz

Caption credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Globular Cluster M15 from Hubble
Credit: ESA, Hubble, NASA

Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright globular cluster M15. This ball of over 100,000 stars is a relic from the early years of our Galaxy, and continues to orbit the Milky Way’s center. M15, one of about 150 globular clusters remaining, is noted for being easily visible with only binoculars, having at its center one of the densest concentrations of stars known, and containing a high abundance of variable stars and pulsars. This sharp image, taken by the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, spans about 120 light years. It shows the dramatic increase in density of stars toward the cluster’s center. M15 lies about 35,000 light years away toward the constellation of the Winged Horse (Pegasus). Recent evidence indicates that a massive black hole might reside as the center of M15.

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Comet Swan

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Although Saturn’s rings extend out from the planet’s equator over 50,000 miles (80,000km), they are only about 33 feet thick (10 meters).

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