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March 8, 2012
A powerful solar flare erupts on March 6, 2012

Stormy Skies

March 6, 2012
The Moon passes by Mars and the star pattern of Leo, March 2012

Doubly Brilliant

March 3, 2012
Mars is at opposition in early March 2012, shining brightest for the year

Mighty Mars

March 1, 2012
Newborn stars in the Orion Nebula

Bright Babies

February 26, 2012
Voyager mission enhanced-color image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Planetary Impressionism

February 23, 2012
Hubble Space Telescope images of the aftermath of Supernova 1987A

Wave of Destruction

February 21, 2012
Hubble Space Telescope image of the aftermath of Supernova 1987A

Stellar Ghost

February 20, 2012
John Glenn enters his Mercury capsule (right), and launches on February 20, 1962

Up, Up, and Away!

February 17, 2012
Orion, the hunter, including his faint shield

Shielding the Hunter

February 13, 2012
The Carina Nebula, a massive stellar nursery

Star Factory

February 9, 2012
Dark lunar features are named seas or oceans

Split Personality

February 6, 2012

New Heavyweight Champion

February 1, 2012
Sirius B, the white-dwarf companion to Sirius, compared to the size of Earth

Stellar Afterlife

January 30, 2012
A January 23, 2012 solar flare

Restless Sun

January 26, 2012
Endeavour Crater, winter home of the Opportunity Mars rover

Winter Wonderland

January 22, 2012
Infrared view of the spiral galaxy IC 342

Tangled Galaxy

January 17, 2012
Earth's atmosphere distorts the Moon as seen from the International Space Statio

Squashed Moon

January 13, 2012
Infrared view of starbirth in the vast nebula complex Cygnus X

Busy Nursery

January 11, 2012
Artist's concept of a dark storm on the brown dwarf 2MASS 2139

Stormy Skies

January 8, 2012
Artist's concept of the pulsar and planets in the system PSR B1257+12

Second-Chance Planets

January 6, 2012
M1, the Crab Nebula, in a Hubble Space Telescope image

Crab Nebula

January 5, 2012
The Moon and Hyades, night of January 5, 2012

Staring at the Bull

January 2, 2012
Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the planet's four largest moons

An Eyeful of Moons

December 30, 2011
Artist's concept of GRAIL spacecraft measuring the Moon's gravitational field

Lunar Arrival

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