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[edit] Astronomy

See also: Commons:Featured pictures/Space exploration

[edit] Planet

  • Saturn with auroras

  • Saturn's rings in visible light and radio

  • Saturn during Equinox

  • Venus globe

  • Jupiter

  • 790106-0203 Voyager 58M to 31M reduced

  • 2006 Transit of Mercury

  • Saturn's Rings in Ultraviolet Light

  • Mercury, Venus and the Moon Align

  • The Earth seen from Apollo 17

  • Terraformed Mars

  • Saturn eclipse

  • Saturn

  • Victoria crater in Mars

  • Mercury

  • Earthrise

  • Earth at night

  • The Earth seen from Apollo 17

  • Valles Marineris on Mars

  • Victoria Crater, Cape Verde, Mars

  • Olympus Mons

  • Image taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing descent of Phoenix with a crater in the background.

  • 2006 Transit of Mercury

  • First photograph taken by man of Earthrise

  • NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau

[edit] Natural satellite

  • Lune-Nikon-600-F4 Luc Viatour

  • Lunar libration

  • The total phase of the June 15 lunar eclipse lasted an impressive 100 minutes

  • FullMoon2010

  • Full moon partially obscured by atmosphere

  • Mimas Cassini

  • Saturn's moon Iapetus

  • Moon view from earth In Belgium

  • Full Moon view from Earth

[edit] Star

  • The Sun by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory - 20100801

  • Generations of stars can be seen in this new infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

  • Relative star sizes

  • August 2010 CME SDO Multi-Wavelength

  • R136 HST 2009-12-15

  • Pismis 24

  • "light echo" around V838 Monocerotis

  • 2012 Transit of Venus from SF

  • SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit -- Path Sequence

  • Magnificent CME Erupts on the Sun - August 31

[edit] Nebula

  • Rosette Nebula

  • Helix Nebula

  • Helix Nebula

  • Around the Cat's Paw Nebula

  • Crab Nebula

  • Heart and Soul nebulae

  • ESO - The Carina Nebula (by)

  • Lagoon Nebula (ESO)

  • Eta Carinae Nebula

  • Orion Nebula

  • The hidden fires of the Flame Nebula

  • Generations of stars can be seen in this new infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

  • North America Nebula

  • Different Slant on Orion (495636660)

  • Spitzer's Orion

  • NGC 6302 Hubble 2009.full

  • Eaglefairy hst big

  • 30 Doradus, Tarantula Nebula

  • A New View of the Tarantula Nebula

  • Filigree and Shadow

  • Rho Ophiuchi

  • Eta Carinae Nebula

  • VISTA's infrared view of the Orion Nebula

  • The Cool Clouds of Carina

  • EmissionNebula NGC6357

[edit] Galaxy

  • Colliding galaxies

  • Sombrero Galaxy

  • Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300

  • ESO - Milky Way

  • Sombrero, Hubble images

  • Messier 81 HST

  • Spiral galaxy NGC 1672

  • Field of galaxies

  • Andromeda Galaxy (with h-alpha)

  • Stephan's Quintet Hubble 2009.full

  • M82

  • Near colliding NGC 2207 and IC 2163 as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

  • Large Magellanic Cloud

  • Messier 51 Galaxy

  • Antennae, Hubble images

  • Guisard - Milky Way

  • False-color photograph of Milky Way core regions

  • Firestorm of Star Birth in Galaxy Centaurus A

  • NGC 2683 Spiral galaxy

[edit] Eclipse

  • Solar eclipse 1999 in France

  • Solar eclipse in France 1999, protuberances

  • Solar annular eclipse of January 15, 2010 in Jinan,Republic of China

  • Solar Eclipse May 20,2012

[edit] Others

  • Photo of the comet Hale-Bopp

  • Martian sunset

  • From Andreas Cellarius Harmonia Macrocosmica

  • Aurora Borealis

  • Illuminated illustration of the Ptolemaic geocentric conception of the Universe

  • 360-degree Panorama of the Southern Sky

  • 360° panorama in Death Valley at night

  • 2012-03-14 21-42-55-file-etoiles-14f-2min-3d

  • Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way

  • Black Hole Outflows From Centaurus A

  • Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst shining through two young galaxies in the early Universe

  • M82 HST ACS 2006-14-a-large web

  • This wide field image shows the area around the spiral galaxy NGC 300, six million light-years from Earth.

  • This chart shows the location of the NGC 300 galaxy within the constellation of Sculptor.

  • The southern spiral galaxy NGC 300

  • The irregular galaxy NGC 55, who is slowly spinning around and towards NGC 300, in the early stages of a lengthy merging process.

  • This image composite shows the spiral galaxy NGC 300, as well as the position of the stellar-mass black hole in the galaxy.

  • This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300.

  • This sequence gives a close-up view of the southern spiral galaxy NGC 300

  • This zoom sequence starts with a view of part of the faint southern constellation of Sculptor and finish with a close-up of NGC 300 galaxy

  • This video zooms in NGC 300 onto the position of the system containing the stellar-mass black hole, and finishes with an artist’s impression of the system.

  • This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300.

  • This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300.

  • Starburst in NGC 4449 (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope)

  • Algol AB movie imaged with the CHARA interferometer

  • Top of Atmosphere

  • The spectacular star-forming Carina Nebula imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope

  • NGC 2467 and Surroundings

  • Carina Nebula

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