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Dolomites - Heart Of The Alps

German photographer Kilian Schönberger takes us on a trip to the most probably most beautiful mountains of Europe’s best known mountain chain.

Juno: Jupiter and the Galilean moons from 10.9 million km away, June 21st 2016. The probe will enter orbit around Jupiter on July 4th. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Colorado Perseid Meteor Shower Spherical Panorama 360x180 degrees

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Quartz with Hydrocarbon Inclusions

Locality:  Buhirmas, Koraro, Lasbela District, Baluchistan, Pakistan

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This gigantic lens, built for NASA to record space launches, is up for sale:  http://bokeh.digitalrev.com/article/gigantic-1000mm-nasa-lens-up-for-sale

Hubble Image of NGC 3324

Located in the Southern Hemisphere, NGC 3324 is at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), home of the Keyhole Nebula and the active, outbursting star Eta Carinae. The entire Carina Nebula complex is located at a distance of roughly 7,200 light-years, and lies in the constellation Carina.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Hubble Unveils Monster Stars

The image shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young and dense star cluster R136 can be seen at the lower right of the image. This cluster contains hundreds of young, blue stars, among them the most massive stars detected in the universe so far. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to conduct a detailed imaging and spectroscopic study of the central and most dense region of this cluster. Here they found nine stars with masses greater than 100 times the mass of the sun. The cluster is located 170,000 light-years away from Earth.

Image credit: NASA Hubble

Cassini: Saturn, June 12th 2016

W00099641.jpg was taken on 2016-06-12 07:28 (UTC) and received on Earth 2016-06-12 14:57 (UTC). The camera was pointing toward SATURN, and the image was taken using the CL1 and IR1 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Fluorite and Sphalerite

Locality: La Viesca, Asturias, Spain