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June 15, 2011
Cosmic Inflation

A Big Push

June 11, 2011
NGC 3758, a system of two merging galaxies

Double Trouble

June 7, 2011
A solar eruption on June 7, 2011

Big Splash

June 6, 2011
Venus's path across the Sun during the transit of 1761

Bright Passage

June 3, 2011
Artist's concept of upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope

Facelift for Science

June 1, 2011
Stars and cities streak past space shuttle Endeavour

Fast Flyer

May 30, 2011
A painting by Andrew Wyeth depicts preparations for a Gemini launch in the 1960s

Ready for Liftoff

May 26, 2011
X-ray view of the Carina Nebula, a stellar nursery 7,500 light-years from Earth

Star Factory

May 23, 2011
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 attached to the International Space Station

On Duty

May 19, 2011
Artist's concept of a free-floating planet in the Milky Way galaxy

Free Agent

May 16, 2011
Space shutle Endeavour launches on its final mission, June 16, 2011

Final Endeavour

May 13, 2011
Cassini view of geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus squirting far into space

Faithful Geysers

May 11, 2011
Primary mirror of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, McDonald Observatory

A Big Bottle of Windex?

May 6, 2011
M8, the Lagoon Nebula, is a vast stellar nurseary

Stellar Canvas

May 5, 2011
Alan Shepard enters his capsule, then launches aboard Freedom 7, May 5, 1961

A-OK Flight

May 2, 2011
Lightning strikes near space shuttle Endeavour, April 28, 2011

Close Call

April 29, 2011
Moon and planets in the dawn sky, April 30/May 1, 2011

Dawn Encounter

April 25, 2011
Artist's concept of TW Hydra, a young star encircled by a disk of gas and dust

Messy Youngster

April 22, 2011
Artist's concept of the planetary system Kepler 11

Close Family

April 19, 2011
A view of NGC 3582, a large stellar nursery in Karina

Life and Death

April 16, 2011
The Opportunity rover crosses the Martian plains toward Endeavour crater

Crater Crawling

April 14, 2011
Image of water distribution in northern hemisphere of Mars

Watery Mars

April 12, 2011
Launches of Vostok 1, STS-1 (space shuttle Columbia)

Double Date

April 6, 2011
Streamers of dust partially obscure the "seven sisters," members of the Pleiades

Veiled Sisters

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