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The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area. [4] In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects.
Wished happy birthday to Alexei Leonov who is the first spacewalker and is celebrating his 85th birthday on 30 May. Also brought a picture of Leonov into space with them. 407 21 August 12:27 6 hours, 32 minutes 18:59 Expedition 60 ISS Quest
These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in October 2015. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2015#1]] for October 1).
You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this.
The new bigger and sharper version of the "Pillars of Creation" photo was released Monday as part of the lead up to the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's launch, and reveals new ...
Smile, Hubble! You turn 31 today. The Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit on April 24, 1990, and it's been looking into the far reaches of space and beaming images back to us ever since. In ...
Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Gigapixels of Andromeda, is a 2015 composite photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy produced by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is 1.5 billion pixels in size, and is the largest image ever taken by the telescope. [1] At the time of its release to the public, the image was one of the largest ever ...
In March 2015, Ceres became the first dwarf planet to be visited by a spacecraft when Dawn entered orbit. In July 2015, New Horizons visited the Pluto - Charon system after a 9-year voyage, returning a trove of pictures and information about the former "ninth planet" (now classified as a dwarf planet).