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Earth and Space Station

The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble

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Y’all are so excited about the new planetary discovery but I haven’t seen y’all share the Google doodle!

It’s so fucking adorable!

This is true and sad.

Space Shuttle Discovery STS-133

Credit: NASA / GSFC / Rebecca Roth

Elephant Trunk Nebula

When radiation and winds from massive young stars impact clouds of cool gas, they can trigger new generations of stars to form. This is what may be happening in this object known as the Elephant Trunk Nebula (or its official name of IC 1396A).  

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/Getman et al, Optical: DSS, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Soyuz launch July 2016

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