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February 11, 2016
Artist's concept of completed Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer

Running Interference

February 7, 2016
Hubble Space Telescope view of the Gliese 229 system

Faint Neighbors

February 3, 2016
Luna 9, February 1966

First Landing

January 31, 2016
Planets in the dawn sky, February 2016

The Whole Gang

January 24, 2016
Morning alignment of planets, January 2016

Five in a Row

January 20, 2016
View of a doomed comet approaching the Sun

Doomed Comet

January 18, 2016
Space-based view of a powerful solar flare

Big Blast

January 15, 2016
Strong winds blowing from a black hole in a distant spiral galaxy

Windy Black Hole

January 7, 2016
Infrared image of a bow shock in front of a fast star

Shocking Star

December 30, 2015
Artist's concept of Galileo Jupiter probe

Dropping In

December 23, 2015
Cassini views the moon Enceladus passing in front of Saturn

Last Look

December 20, 2015
Sand dunes on Mars

Dune World

December 18, 2015
The odd galaxy NGC 660

Busy Galaxy

December 14, 2015
Hubble view of the Crab Nebula

Spectacular Crab

December 8, 2015
Telescopes in the cargo bay of space shuttle Columbia, December 1995

Space (Shuttle) Telescope

December 2, 2015
Launch of Lisa Pathfinder

Gravity Bound

November 29, 2015
Planetary nebula known as the Eskimo Nebula

Cyclops?

November 22, 2015
Hubble view of galaxy Markarian 231

Double Double

November 16, 2015
Illustration of 1833 Leonid meteor storm

Skyfall

November 9, 2015
The Pleiades star cluster

Seven Sisters

November 6, 2015
Jets from a protostar in Serpens

Huffing and Puffng

October 31, 2015
Radio view of asteroid 2015 TB145, which will pass close to Earth on Halloween

Boo!

October 27, 2015
Plumes of ice and water shoot into space from Enceladus, a moon of Saturn

Getting Wet

October 21, 2015
Hubble view of the Eta Carinae system

The Homunculus

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