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Ports of Barcelona | Space Wallpaper
June 25, 2013 | WallpaperThe Spanish city of Barcelona is pictured in this space wallpaper by Japan’s ALOS satellite. Along the coast, we can see the Barcelona’s port—one of Europe’s top ten largest container ports. This image was released June 21, 2013.
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Strike a Pose | Space Wallpaper
June 21, 2013 | WallpaperThe NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this cool space wallpaper of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. In this image the galaxy is seen face-on as if posing for a photograph, allowing us to study its structure closely.
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Thunderbolts and Lightning | Space Wallpaper
June 20, 2013 | WallpaperIn this electrifying space wallpaper, taken on Friday June 7, 2013, a furious thunderstorm is discharging its mighty rage over Cerro Paranal.
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Herschel's Dazzling Look at Horsehead Nebula | Space Wallpaper
May 06, 2013 | WallpaperThis space wallpaper reveals a stunning view from ESA’s Herschel space observatory of the iconic Horsehead Nebula in the context of its surroundings.
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Supersonic | Space Wallpaper
April 29, 2013 | WallpaperVirgin Galactic conducted a historic first supersonic test flight of SpaceShipTwo on April 29, 2013, in the Mojave Desert, Calif., as seen in this stunning space wallpaper.
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Eye On Early Universe | Space Wallpaper
April 22, 2013 | WallpaperAstronomers have used ALMA to pinpoint the locations of more than 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early Universe. This fascinating space wallpaper shows close-ups of a selection of these galaxies.
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Long Ago and Far Away | Space Wallpaper
April 22, 2013 | WallpaperThis space wallpaper is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view looking long ago and far away at a supernova that exploded more than 10 billion years ago — the most distant Type Ia supernova ever detected.
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Colorful Dance | Space Wallpaper
April 19, 2013 | WallpaperThis stunning space wallpaper shows the youngest-known supernova remnant in our galaxy, which lies 10,000 light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. The light from this exploding star first reached Earth in the 1600s.
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Glowing Green Blob | Space Wallpaper
April 18, 2013 | WallpaperThis intriguing space wallpaper from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star. It is located about 3300 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield).
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Exoplanet View from its Moon | Space Wallpaper
April 12, 2013 | WallpaperThis beautiful space wallpaper is an artist’s impression of an exoplanet seen from its moon. The diversity of exoplanets is large — more than 800 planets outside the Solar System have been found to date, with thousands more waiting to be confirmed.
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