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Uranus, without and with the LBT's adaptive optics system

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The Orion A star-formation cloud seen by ESA’s Herschel space observatory

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Spain, Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar from the International Space Station

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In the ancient cratered southern highlands of Mars, the faint traces of a wet past are seen in the form of channels, fluidised debris around craters and blocks of eroded sediments

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The International Space Station, as seen from space shuttle Atlantis, June 19, 2011

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A picture of Saturn and Titan shot by the Cassini spacecraft from a distance of 470,816 miles (757,705 kilometers) from Titan

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In the direction of the constellation Canis Major, two spiral galaxies pass by each other like majestic ships in the night. The near-collision has been caught in images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2

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Self-portrait of NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover including a panoramic view of the Yellowknife Bay region of the Red Planet's Gale Crater.

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The huge storm churning through the atmosphere in Saturn's northern hemisphere overtakes itself as it encircles the planet in this true-colour view from Cassini spacecraft

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Closeup of 10 km high mountains on Iapetus, Saturn's 3rd largest moon

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