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December 30, 2010
Opportunity rover view of Santa Maria crater

Crater Climbing

December 29, 2010
The Opportunity rover casts it shadow on the rim of a Martian crater

Martian Robot

December 27, 2010
Geysers on Enceladus

Fizzy Moon?

December 25, 2010
Western sky a couple of hours after sunset in late December

Happy Holidays!

December 22, 2010
Eruption of gas from the surface of the Sun

Sun Power

December 20, 2010
Total Lunar Eclipse of December 21, 2010

Disappearing Moon

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

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