Gallery of the Day – Pictures from Space

We can see so little of the universe from earth. Take a gander at today’s gallery for sights only seen from space.

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Sunrise on the lunar crater Tycho. Just think, there’s a monolith under there somewhere that we need to find.

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The sunset on Mars is a tad dusty, but overall a pretty damned cool sight. To think that the planet is actually made of cheese.

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Though named the Porpoise Galaxy, it would have sounded quite funny if they would have gone with their first choice of The Flipper Galaxy.

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Skylab may be no more, but at one point it held a place in our orbit and in our hearts.

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In the midst of a solar eclipse the sun gets a nice crown, or corona. It’s much like the Corona you can get down here, but much more expensive.

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We don’t want to leave out the masses of Bronies out there, so here, we give you the Horsehead Nebula. It’s like Twilight Sparkle made her way to space and got stuck.

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After all of these years we’ve known that the Hubble telescope was quite the voyeur. But did you know that the Hubble liked to stare at things other than you in your backyard? Like into the nothingness of space to find things that no one knew existed.

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In 1965 Edward White made the first U.S. spacewalk. When he emerged from the capsule and into the vacuum of space he exclaimed, “Holy shit! I can see my house from here!”


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