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Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel

Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope presents a festive holiday greeting that’s out of this world. The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel....

The Eleuthera Island, Bahamas

The Eleuthera Island, Bahamas

Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene

Tian Shan Mountains

Tian Shan Mountains

All-sky image of molecular gas seen by Planck and previous surveys

All-sky image of molecular gas seen...

STS_134_patch_OL

STS_134_patch_OL

Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

Parasite Manipulation of Host Behavior (Image 11)

Parasite Manipulation of Host...

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614142main_nixon_shuttle_cropped_946-710

STS-114: Mission Complete

STS-114: Mission Complete

Images of the Day

Expanded Craters on Icy Terrain

Expanded Craters on Icy Terrain

The middle of this image contains a cluster of...

Solar Eclipse Over the North Pacific Ocean

Solar Eclipse Over the North Pacific...

On May 20, 2012, sky watchers from eastern Eurasia to...

Dragon Fire

Dragon Fire

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared into space from Space...

Solar System

Salt Lake, Utah

Salt Lake, Utah

This Envisat radar composite image shows Salt Lake City...

Wadden Sea, Netherlands

Wadden Sea, Netherlands

This Landsat image from 6 September 2010 shows the...

Hierro, Canary Islands

Hierro, Canary Islands

An active, underwater volcano just off the southern coast...

Human Exploration

STS-134 Crew Arrival

STS-134 Crew Arrival

STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly, center, along with his crew...

STS-134 Crew Arrival

STS-134 Crew Arrival

STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly, center, along with his crew...

STS-134 Crew Arrival

STS-134 Crew Arrival

STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly, center, along with his crew...

Science

Parasite Manipulation of Host Behavior (Image 10)

Parasite Manipulation of Host...

A forest patch seen in the distance, surrounded by...

Parasite Manipulation of Host Behavior (Image 9)

Parasite Manipulation of Host...

A view of coffee plants (foreground), with forest patches...

Parasite Manipulation of Host Behavior (Image 8)

Parasite Manipulation of Host...

This plate shows the distinguishing features of another...

Return to Flight

STS-114: Mission Complete

STS-114: Mission Complete

Discovery is being towed into the Orbiter Processing...

STS-114: Mission Complete

STS-114: Mission Complete

Discovery is viewed across Banana Creek as the orbiter is...

STS-114: Mission Complete

STS-114: Mission Complete

Discovery is pushed from the Mate/Demate Device on NASA...

Wallpapers

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dandelion-wild

Strait of Gibraltar, Spain

Strait of Gibraltar, Spain

The Strait of Gibraltar is the main feature on this...

Southern Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas

Southern Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas

The shallow blue waters of the Bahamas as seen from...

Telescopes

Herschel’s image of Fomalhaut

Herschel’s image of Fomalhaut

This image shows the infrared emission from the young...

Centaurus A: Far-infrared and X-rays

Centaurus A: Far-infrared and X-rays

The peculiar galaxy Centaurus A in the far-infrared and...

Component images

Component images

The component images that make up this new...

Robotic Exploration

$But I\'m a Creep$

But I'm a Creep

Date acquired: February 26, 2012 Image Mission Elapsed...

Song for Drella

Song for Drella

Date acquired: October 21, 2011 Image Mission Elapsed...

A Massive Peak

A Massive Peak

Date acquired: April 11, 2012 Image Mission Elapsed Time...

Misc

ESPN 3D At CES

ESPN 3D At CES

Boxer "Dr. Drain" making his professional debut on ESPN...

Boxing At CES

Boxing At CES

Two men slugged it out on ESPN 3D at the 2012...

ESPN 3D At CES

ESPN 3D At CES

ESPN showed off its 3D channel at the 2012 International...

Word of the Day

marconism

(noun) The art of wireless telegraphy according to the Marconi system, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument.

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy.

Quote of the Day

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

- Aubrey Eben

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