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First American Spacewalk

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During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk.

Spacewalk

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:17:53 MDT

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Astronaut Mike Fossum continues his duties during this the second of the STS-124mission's three scheduled spacewalk.

Working

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:17:51 MDT

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Astronaut Ron Garan works on assigned tasks during the last scheduled spacewalk of the STS-124 mission specialist.

Saturn

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:12:20 MDT

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New hues are creeping into Saturn's northern cloud bands as winter gives way to spring there.

Rainbow of A Galaxy

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:05:21 MDT

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NASA's Spitzer, Hubble, and Chandra space observatories teamed up to create this multi-wavelength, false-colored view of the M82 galaxy. The lively portrait celebrates Hubble's "sweet sixteen" birthday.

Chaotic Star Birth

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:05:18 MDT

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Located 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, a reflection nebula epitomizes the beautiful chaos of a dense group of stars being born. In this infrared view, one group of young stars is seen in red to the north near the nebula. The other group is south, where the features shown in yellowish green abound. With the sharp infrared eyes of Spitzer, scientists can detect and characterize the warm and dusty disks of material that surround forming stars.

Crab Nebula

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The Crab nebula is the shattered remnant of a massive star that ended its life in a massive supernova explosion. Nearly a thousand years old, the supernova was noted in the constellation of Taurus by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054 A.D. In this infrared view from Spitzer, the blue-white region traces the cloud of energetic electrons trapped within the star's magnetic field. The red features follow the well-known filamentary structures that permeate this nebula.

Splendid 'Splinter'

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:05:14 MDT

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The spiral galaxy NGC 5907, sometimes known as the Splinter galaxy because of its unusual appearance, is located in the constellation Draco. It is fairly bright and appears elongated because it has an edge-on alignment when viewed from Earth. It also has a strong set of dust lanes, visible in this Spitzer image as red features.

Spiral Galaxy

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:05:13 MDT

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This view shows the beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1566, located approximately 60 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado. The faint blue light is coming from mature stars, while the glowing red spiral arms indicate active star formation and dust emission.

The Milky Way

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:05:11 MDT

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In visible light, the bulk of our Milky Way galaxy's stars are eclipsed behind thick clouds of galactic dust and gas. But to the infrared eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, distant stars and dust clouds shine with unparalleled clarity and color. Red clouds indicate the presence of large organic molecules mixed with dust. Black patches are dense obscuring dust clouds impenetrable even to Spitzer. Bright arcs of white are massive stellar incubators.

A Dying Star

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:05:08 MDT

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Six hundred and fifty light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, a dead star about the size of Earth is refusing to fade away peacefully. In this false-color image, NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes have teamed up to capture the complex structure of the object, called the Helix nebula, in unprecedented detail.

Super Starburst Galaxy

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:59:14 MDT

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The green and red splotch in this image is the most active star-making galaxy in the very distant universe. Nicknamed "Baby Boom," the galaxy is churning out an average of up to 4,000 stars per year, more than 100 times the number produced in our own Milky Way galaxy. It was spotted 12.3 billion light-years away by a suite of telescopes, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

"Bursting With Stars"

bleed_memories — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:59:12 MDT

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The most active star-forming galaxy in the distant universe, nicknamed the "Baby Boom" galaxy, loosely resembles the galaxy shown here, called Zw II 96. While Zw II 96 is located about 500 million light-years away, Baby Boom lies 12.3 billion light-years away and appears in images as only a smudge.

Pinwheel Galaxy

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The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Mars

bleed_memories — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:04:07 MDT

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Lander on Mars discovered ice in May-June 2008.

Nebula

bleed_memories — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:46:25 MDT

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Pale Blue Dot

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:00:12 MST

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The "Pale Blue Dot" is a photograph of planet Earth made by Voyager 1 from a record distance, seen from over 4 Billion Miles (6.4 Billion Km) away, showing it against the vastness of space.

Eta Carinae Nebula

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:56:26 MST

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Eta Carinae is a highly luminous hypergiant star. Estimates of its mass range from 100–150 times the mass of the Sun, and its luminosity is about four million times that of the Sun. This object is currently the most massive star that can be studied in great detail. Several other known stars may be more luminous and more massive, but data on them is far less robust

Carina Nebula

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:56:24 MST

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The Carina Nebula is one of the largest diffuse nebulae in our skies. Although it is some four times as large and even brighter than the famous Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is much less well known, due to its location far in the Southern Hemisphere.

Keyhole Nebula

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:52:29 MST

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Keyhole Nebula, imaged by Hubble Space Telescope. The small nebula to the upper left has been nicknamed "finger of God" or "God's birdie", due to the sophomoric gesture it appears to be making. A portion of the Carina Nebula, known as the Keyhole Nebula, a name given to it by John Herschel in the 19th century. The Keyhole Nebula is actually a much smaller and darker cloud of cold molecules and dust, containing bright filaments of hot, fluorescing gas, silhouetted against the much brighter background nebula. The diameter of the Keyhole structure is approximately 7 light years.

Red Eyed Beast Nebula

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:42:31 MST

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The Eagle Nebula

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:42:25 MST

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The Eagle Nebula (also known as Messier Object 16, M16 or NGC 6611), perhaps one of the most famous and easily recognized space objects, is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745-46. It is associated with a diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, which is catalogued as IC 4703. This region of active current star formation is about 7,000 light-years distant. The brightest star in the nebula has an apparent magnitude of 8.24, easily visible with good binoculars.

Siren Nebula

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:42:23 MST

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Our Galaxy

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:42:20 MST

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Universe Field

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:40:07 MST

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Pillars of Creation

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:40:06 MST

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Unnamed Galaxy

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:36:39 MST

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An unnamed galaxy, seen from an angle

Andromeda Galaxy

bleed_memories — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:36:36 MST

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Andromeda, as seen from the side.