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Canadian Stars

Credit: John Chumack/www.galacticimages.com

Astrophotographer John Chumack sent in a photo of the Milky Way above Rice Lake, Keene, Ontario, Canada, taken before moonrise on a night in June 2013. [See More Images]

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Giant Baby Attacks Telescope

Credit: ESO/J. Girard

A trick of perspective makes it seem as though this child is much bigger than this 1.8-meter Auxiliary Telescope, part of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. ESO Astronomer Julien Girard took this photo of his daughter Maëlle during a family day at Paranal Observatory. [See More Images]

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Beyond the Rim of Sunlight

Credit: NASA

A patch of reflected sunlight gleams off the Earth's oceans in this view from the International Space Station by an Expedition 36 astronaut captured on July 4. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft is seen docked at top, with a large mass of storm clouds over the Atlantic Ocean near Brazil and the Equator far below. [See More Images]

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Comet Pan-STARRS Cuts Like a Knife In Amazing Photo

Credit: Joseph Brimacombe

Comet Pan-STARRS slices through the night sky like a bright blade of light in this stunning image by an amateur astronomer. [Read the Full Story]

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Space Photos by Astronaut Karen Nyberg (Image Gallery)

Credit: Karen L. Nyberg (via Twitter as @AstroKarenN )

Expedition 36 crew member Karen Nyberg demonstrates how she washes her hair in zero-g conditions on the International Space Station. Video released July 9, 2013. [See More Images]

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Milky Way Magic Captured Over Rural Maine (Photos)

Credit: © Mike Taylor | Taylor Photography

A veteran astrophotographer in Maine took advantage of a clear night sky in rural Maine to capture two beautiful images of our host galaxy, the Milky Way. [Read the Full Story]

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Astronaut Hygiene: How to Wash Your Hair In Space (Video)

Credit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1lPU0nYb3s Shot of her putting water in with the squeeze bottle Astronaut Karen Nyberg of NASA uses a squeeze pouch of warm water and no-rinse shampoo to wash her hair on the International Space Station in this still from

NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg has recorded a video guide for how to wash your hair in space. See how no-rinse shampoo, towel and planning equals good zero-gravity hair care. [Watch the video]

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Roswell 'UFO' Anniversary Gets a Google Doodle

Credit: Google

Any space fan should visit Google.com today. The search engine is commemorating the 66th anniversary of the "UFO" incident in Roswell, N.M., with a quirky alien doodle game. [Read the Full Story]

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Amazing Space Photos: Italian Astronaut Luca Parmitano's Orbital Images

Credit: NASA

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano is snapping amazing photos of Earth from space and what life is like aboard the International Space Station. As a European Space Agency astronaut, Parmitano is a flight engineer with the station's Expedition 36/37 crew and arrived at the outpost in May 2013. [See More Images]

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Images: See The 'Hidden Universe' in IMAX 3D

Credit: December Media/Film Victoria/Swinburne University of Technology/MacGillivray Freeman Films/ESO

The 3D production "Hidden Universe" will be released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe. The film is produced by the Australian production company December Media in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, MacGillivray Freeman Films and ESO. [See More Images]

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Photos: NASA Rockets Launch on Fourth of July

Credit: NASA/Wallops/Chris Perry/Brad Mason

Two suborbital rockets were successfully launched 15 seconds apart on July 4, 2013 from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility. [See More Images]

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'Monster Star' Baby Photos Captured by Giant Telescope

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NRAJ/NRAO)/NASA/Spitzer/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE

New observations using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter array (ALMA) have given astronomers the best view yet of a monster star in the process of forming within a dark cloud. A stellar womb with over 500 times the mass of the Sun has been found - the largest ever seen in the Milky Way - and it is still growing. [Watch the video]

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Images: Blue Alien Planet's True Color Revealed by Hubble

Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser

This illustration shows HD 189733b, a huge gas giant that orbits very close to its host star HD 189733. The planet's atmosphere is scorching with a temperature of over 1000 degrees Celsius, and it rains glass, sideways, in howling 7000 kilometer-per-hour winds. Image released July 11, 2013. [See More Images]

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NASA Spacecraft Photographs Pluto's Largest Moon Charon

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

A NASA spacecraft bound for Pluto has captured its first photo of the dwarf planet's largest moon Charon, a cosmic snapshot snapped from nearly 550 million miles away. [Read the Full Story]

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Photos: Space Shuttle Enterprise Exhibit Reopens NYC Museum

Credit: collectSPACE.com/Robert Z. Pearlman

Space shuttle Enterprise relaunched on public display July 10, 2013 at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. [See More Images]

Best Space Photos of the Week - July 14, 2013