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The first photo of the far side of the Moon. Captured by the soviet Luna 3 probe on October 2nd, 1959.

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Milky Way from 14,500 feet above sea level in the Himalayas.

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SL 17 & RCW 114: The Dark Wolf and the Dragon’s Heart, 10° Deep Mosaic Revealing New Structures and Possible Planetary Nebulae

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Sturgeon Moon in color, photographed through an amateur telescope.

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Astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes put together a detailed map of a rare collision between four galaxy clusters.

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ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 imaged the Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lander on the Moon!

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Detailed image of the Sun's corona taken during the April 20, 2023 total solar eclipse from Exmouth, Australia

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Sea of storms on Saturn seen by NASA's Cassini

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New Hubble image of Dracula's Chivito, an edge-on protoplanetary disk discovered last year

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Besides the US and China, Japan was also close to setting a new record of orbital launch attempts in 2024.

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Giant impact of Venus could explain its unusual rotation and lack of a moon

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Apollo 8: Earthrise

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NASA's Curiosity views martian rock shaped like coral

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The structure and the surface of Venus

from Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science

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Space Exploration

By the end of the 20th century, all the planets of the solar system had been visited by space probes, including Uranus and Neptune, the most distant planets. In some cases, the visit was only a flyby mission, which nevertheless provided data impossible to obtain from the Earth. Other missions have involved placing space probes in orbit around a planet. Yet other missions have landed probes on Venus, Mars, and Titan (one of Saturn's moons). In 1969, humans succeeded in walking on the Moon, and there are now plans to send humans to the planet Mars.

from Universe (Britannica Illustrated Science Library)

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The first of 3 lunar roving vehicles (LRVs) deployed on the Moon drove 17.5 miles (28 km) during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.

Astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin (shown here) used the electric vehicle to explore the Moon's surface farther from their landing spot, which allowed them to collect samples from a wider variety of deposits. One of the most significant rocks collected on the mission was the "Genesis Rock," a piece of the Moon's primordial crust formed billions of years ago.

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The Moon

Always in orbit around Earth, the Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite. It provides Earth with light during the night, though it has no light of its own—it merely reflects the Sun’s light. It is the closest object to Earth in space, and we can see its cratered surface even with the naked eye.

(from Picturepedia)