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October 6, 2018
Views from the Hayabusa 2 mission to Ryugu

Asteroid Hopper

October 4, 2018
Artist's concept of BepiColombo arriving at Mercury in 2025

Heading for Mercury

September 30, 2018
NGC 5907

Pancake Galaxy

September 28, 2018
Atoms for Peace galaxy

'Peaceful' Galaxy

September 26, 2018
Magellanic Clouds over ALMA

Close Clouds

September 23, 2018
Moonrise over Yellowstone National Park

Moon Over Yellowstone

September 19, 2018
Debris disk around a neutron star

Stellar Afterlife

September 16, 2018
Hubble Space Telescope image of Saturn and several of its moons

Just Spinning Along

September 14, 2018
Artist's concept of two neutron stars merging to make a black hole

Violent Merger

September 10, 2018
Views of Mont Blanc Observatory, France

Getting High

September 8, 2018
Black holes around a ring galaxy

Ring Around the Galaxy

September 5, 2018

Blue Neptune

August 31, 2018
HST view of galaxies near the Big Dipper

Galaxies, Galaxies, Galaxies

August 28, 2018
Galileo view of asteroid Gaspra and its moon, Ida

Chip off the old Asteroid

August 25, 2018

Glowing Planets

August 22, 2018
Artist's concept of the Mars 2020 helicopter

Martian Whirlybird

August 17, 2018
Sketches of the total solar eclipse of August 1868

Solar Discovery

August 12, 2018
Hubble view of NGC 6397, a globular star cluster

Stellar Lab

August 9, 2018
IceCube detects a neutrino from a blazar

Cold Fire

August 6, 2018
Milky Way Dark Rift

Dark Rift

August 3, 2018
A combination of star-forming regions and the remains of an exploded star, seen in the infrared

Birth and Death

August 1, 2018
Maria Mitchell, 1851

Pioneering Astronomer

July 30, 2018
Artist's concept of Parker Solar Probe observing the Sun

Hot Destination

July 28, 2018
Albireo

Colorful Beak

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