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Photograph of Apollo 15 astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module, and lunar roving vehicle, August 1, 1971.
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Eta Carinae, in the Keyhole Nebula, imaged by Hubble. Imaging the nebula in ultraviolet captured the glow of magnesium in warm gas (in blue) between the dusty bipolar bubbles and the outer shock-heated nitrogen-rich filaments (in red). Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith and J. Morse
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Dwarf elliptical galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, features a core of hot, massive blue stars. Imaged by Hubble.
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Kohoutek 3-46, a butterfly-shaped planetary nebula, captured with Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory. Located in the constellation Cygnus, Kohoutek 3-46 is around 20,000 years old and around 7200 light-years away. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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Comet 67P/C-G. This animation comprises 86 images acquired by the Navigation Camera on board ESA's Rosetta spacecraft as it approached the comet in August 2014. The first image August 1 at 11:07 UTC (13:07 CEST), from 832 km away. The last image August 5 at 15:07 UTC (17:07 CEST) from 142 km.
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