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July 2, 2017
Apollo 16 image of the lunar farside

Far Moon

June 29, 2017
VLT image of three galactic nebulae: M17, M16, and Sharpless 2-54

Galactic Nurseries

June 21, 2017
Combined radio and visual view of the Perseus galaxy cluster

Hot Halo

June 18, 2017
Twilight over McDonald Observatory

A Civil Sky

June 15, 2017
Visible and infrared image of Ring Nebula

Blowing Bubbles

June 12, 2017
The moon Daphnis stirs up Saturn's rings

Making Waves

June 7, 2017
False-color image of the Boomerang Nebula, which is being created by a dying star

Cold Death

June 3, 2017
Voyager 1 view of white oval storms on Jupiter

Jovian Pearls

May 28, 2017
A 2015 solar flare

Scary Storm

May 28, 2017
Views of Saturn's north polar hexagon in 2013 and 2017.

Changing Seasons

May 25, 2017
Lynx in the west, late May

Faint Cat

May 19, 2017
A ring of rubble encircles the star Fomalhaut

Rubble Ring

May 15, 2017
Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy cluster Abell 370

Galactic Pile-Up

May 9, 2017
HST view of 47 Tucanae

Star Globe

May 7, 2017
Io and Jupiter

Volcanic Connection

May 5, 2017
Saturn's moon Iapetus

Two-Faced Moon

May 5, 2017
Hubble view of hundreds of galaxies

Galaxy Glut

May 2, 2017
The layered structure of Ceres

Icy Layers

May 1, 2017
Diagram of the asteroid belt

Leftovers

April 28, 2017
April 26, 2017, image of Saturn from Cassini

Close Dive

April 24, 2017
Cassini view of Earth, Moon, and Saturn's rings

Looking Back

April 21, 2017
Artist's concept of Cassini crossing inside Saturn's rings

Through the Gap

April 19, 2017
Hubble Space Telescope view of galaxy M100

Grand Spiral

April 17, 2017
Hubble Space Telescope view of galaxy NGC 6503

Island Universes

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