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Amazing Photo of Green Comet Lovejoy Captured by Dark Energy Camera

The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile captured this photo of Comet Lovejoy on Dec. 27, 2014.

Artist's concept of NASA's Dawn spacecraft approaching the dwarf planet Ceres ahead of a planned orbital arrive on the night of March 5, 2015.

Galaxy NGC 4424

Shuttle and International Space Station in 2011

This chart shows the constellation Vela (The Sails); most of the stars that can be seen in a dark sky with the unaided eye are marked.

Cruithne’s wacky orbit around the sun

Night sky over Lake Tyrrel

Video artist Marco Brambilla's "Apollo XVIII" will count down to a Saturn V launch every night in March in Times Square.

NASA astronauts Terry Virts (center) and Butch Wilmore work to route cables outside the International Space Station during their third spacewalk together on March 1, 2015.

Artist's concept of NASA's Dawn spacecraft approaching the dwarf planet Ceres ahead of a planned orbital arrive on the night of March 5, 2015.

Leonard Nimoy's Impact On NASA and ESA - Astronauts Reflect | Video

High Altitude Plume on Mars

Leonard Nimoy as 'Spock'

The newly discovered object NGC 2276-3c (shown in inset) appears to be an intermediate-mass black hole, astronomers say.

Ion Engines to the Asteroid Belt with Leonard Nimoy

World View Balloon

The Pleiades, Seven Sisters - Johnson

Nimoy Passes Away Feb. 27, 2015

Big Bang Theory: Universe Timeline

Artist's concept of NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft

Sandy Point meteor, photography

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NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite

Dirt-Watching NASA Satellite Deploys Giant Space Antenna (Video)

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Artist's depiction of a manned Mars mission.

US Needs a Mars Colony, Buzz Aldrin Tells Senators

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Spiral Galaxies About to Collide

Supermassive Diet: Black Holes Bulk-Up on Dark Matter

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Arecibo Radio Observatory

The Father of SETI: Q&A with Astronomer Frank Drake

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Spring Constellations, Planets and a Solar Eclipse - March 2015 Skywatching Video

Spring Constellations, Planets and a Solar Eclipse - March 2015 Skywatching

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