Combined visual and millimeter-wave view of Orion Nebula, M42
Skylab in orbit
The powerful quasar SDSS J1106
Hubble Space Telescope, May 2009
Cassini view of Saturn's north pole
Pyramid of the Old Kingdom pharaoh Khafre and the Sphinx

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