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Check out this picture of the Lunar Eclipse from a couple of weeks ago, rocking out with the Lagoon Nebula in the background. The picture was taken by  Emil Ivanov, and Phil Plait dissects it for some sexy cosmic perspective.

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I never knew this, but all of Saturn’s moons and rings orbit the planet on the same plane. It happens through yet another wonder of our glorious universal laws-thingies.

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That red outlined spec in the middle of that picture is Betelgeuse. The roaring, rumbling, amorphous sexily shaded cloud surrounding it is an enormous nebula of dust.

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Meet  Corona Australis. This glorious dust cloud is a meager 500 light-years away.

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The  Eight Burst Nebula has one of the dopest names in recent Nebulistic (my word) memory. It’s also a glorious golden halo, with two brooding stars in the near-center.

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Meet  Abell 2744. It is the sexy point in the Universe where four enormous cosmic entities are colliding. You’re staring at trillions of solar masses smashing into one another. Pretty, innit?

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Through the sheer will of our Collective Unconscious, we have willed Star Wars into exist. Orbiting the perimeter of our dimension is clearly a feet of X-Wings, waiting to strike us bastards. Or, when the meds don’t work, the Angels in basement sing such things to me. In reality, this is a picture of the  ATV-2 Johannes Kepler, which just happens to look like my favorite unit of space-combat destruction.

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A couple of days ago, Cassini zipped past Helene. It was a relatively close to this moon of Saturn, and it snapped this sexy picture. Relatively close being 4,300 miles, which is like nothing in cosmic-universeo-wunder-terms.

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One of the dopest things going on in the Space-Wunder-Cosmos is the use of our various means of photography to snag pictures of celestial beasts. MESSENGER has made 100 orbits around Mercury, snapping all sorts of picture. None of them are as colorful and snazzy-a-riffic as this latest one.

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Alright, so it’s actually an elliptical galaxy. Whatever its shape,  Centaurus A is suffering and it’s making it all the prettier. After recently colliding with another galaxy, it’s been absorbing all sorts of gorgeous galactic debris, giving it the look it now has.

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