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Blue Marble — Side B
02 February 2012
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Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
Images like this high-resolution beauty from NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite will help us monitor our changing Earth.
Floppy Ears
01 February 2012
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin)
An elephant with big floppy ears peers from in this cloud of cold gas and dust in an image of RCW 49 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
The stars in watercolor
30 January 2012
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Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/CfA/F.Massaro, et al.); Optical (NASA/STScI/C.P.O’Dea); Radio (NSF/VLA/CfA/F.Massaro, et al.)
Unusual and intriguing shapes float out of this combined starry image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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