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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

The final frontier. Axe is sending one fan to space, and it could be you. Leave a man. Come back a hero.

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AN ERUPTION ON IO AS JUPITER LOOMS   Photograph by NASA   This montage of images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, was taken by the New Horizons spacecraft's fl...

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"Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events." -Jonathan Swift Last week, I showed you the new, highest-resolution mosaic ever made of the near side of the Moon. And I also showed y...

Our pick of the best space-related images from December includes an aerial view of Mars dusted with carbon dioxide frost, black holes tens of billions of times as massive as the sun, and a dramatic spray of stars

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NASA and Bigelow Aerospace plan to add a $17.8 million inflatable room to the International Space Station. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, will house astronauts, and is built to withstand heat, radiation, debris and other assaults.