The Mars 2020 rover has left the building! It will land on Mars 1 year from now!
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New Horizons as it approached it’s closest to Pluto.
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The Earth and The Moon as seen through Saturns rings.
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An HDR shot of today’s martian occult.
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These diagrams show the patterns that these planets make in our skies.
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Olympus Mons is the tallest mountain in our solar system, located on Mars it stands at 24 kilometers high (16 miles) and is 3 times taller than Mount Everest.
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This is the observable Universe on a logarithmic scale with the Solar System at the center. The layers in order: Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Alpha Centauri star, Perseus Arm, Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda galaxy, nearby galaxies, the cosmic web, cosmic microwave radiation, invisible plasma from Big Bang.
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The Andromeda Galaxy contains 1 trillion stars and is 2.5 million light years from Earth. This was captured from my backyard with 6 hours of exposure time.
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The Eye of Sauron in deep space. This is almost 13 hours of exposure time.
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I made history the other day as the first amateur to image the whole relativistic jet from the black hole of Centaurus A taking nearly 70 hours of exposure.
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What a difference from our earlier images.
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In December 2008, Venus, Jupiter and Moon aligned to form a smiley face. People in Australia saw happy face smiley whereas people in the North saw a sad face smiley.
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The Dolphin Nebula.
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Each dot you see in this image isn’t a star. It’s an entire galaxy, each containing roughly a billion stars of their own.