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December 17, 2010
Shields like those of the USS Enterprise may protect real space travel

Shields Up!

December 16, 2010
Visible and X-ray image of a supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Holiday Decoration

December 13, 2010

Geminid Meteors

December 8, 2010
Enceladus passes in front of Saturn's rings

Saturnian Iceball

December 6, 2010
Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki at Venus

Venusian Dawn

November 30, 2010
Sun glints off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan

Sparkling Lake

November 26, 2010
IC 2118, the Witch Head Nebula

Witch Head Nebula

November 22, 2010
China Clipper Sails the Pacific Ocean

Night Over Water

November 20, 2010
NGC 7252, aka the Atoms-for-Peace galaxies

Atomic Pile-up

November 16, 2010
Leonid Meteor Shower 2010

Seeing Sparks

November 15, 2010
Lunokhod image of its tracks on the lunar surface

Found It!

November 12, 2010
Voyager 1 view of Saturn, November 1980

Getting Acquainted

November 9, 2010
Infrared image of CW Leonis, a giant star that is surrounded by soot

Steamy Star

November 6, 2010
The California Nebula, in Perseus

Stately Nebula

November 5, 2010
Comet Hartley-2 from Deep Impact Spacecraft

Fowl Comet?

November 4, 2010
Deep Impact view of Comet Hartley-2

Closing In

October 31, 2010
Ultraviolet image of the region around the Ghost of Jupiter Nebula

Astronomical Ghost

October 29, 2010
Six Spiral Galaxies from European Southern Observatory

Galaxies Galore

October 25, 2010
Cassini image of Saturn's moon Mimas, October 2010

Scarface

October 21, 2010
Comet Hartley-2 from McDonald Observatory

Jolly Green Comet

October 15, 2010
Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory

Searching the Darkness

October 6, 2010
Infrared view of Comet Hartley 2 from WISE

Heading for a Rendezvous

October 4, 2010
Artist's concept of a protoplanetary disk with wide gaps

Planet Nursery

October 1, 2010
Ground-based image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2151, in Hercules

Galaxies Galore

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