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Curiosity rover takes ‘selfie’ at Mojave Site on Mount Sharp

25 February 2015 Astronomy Now

A new ‘selfie’ from Curiosity shows the NASA Mars rover at work at the “Mojave” site, where its drill collected the mission’s second taste of Mount Sharp.

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Cubist Saturn

24 February 2015 Astronomy Now

Sometimes at Saturn you can see things almost as if from every angle at once, the way a Cubist might imagine things.

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The UK under a curtain of aurora

19 February 2015 Astronomy Now

NASA astronaut Terry Virts captured this stunning image of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scandinavia on a moonlit night beneath an amazing curtain of aurora.

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Dawn captures sharper images of Ceres

17 February 2015 Astronomy Now

Now less than three weeks away from its historic rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres, the latest images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft show a myriad of craters and mysterious bright spots on the tiny world.

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A Valentine’s rose made of galaxies

14 February 2015 Astronomy Now

A rose made of galaxies, pictured by the Hubble Space Telescope, makes the perfect Valentine’s gift for the astronomer in your life!

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Hubble captures rare triple-moon conjunction

9 February 2015 Astronomy Now

On 24th January 2015, three of Jupiter’s Galilean moons were in simultaneous transit across the face of their parent planet. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this rare event in amazing detail.

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Dawn gets closer views of Ceres

5 February 2015 Astronomy Now

Now just one month away from entering into orbit around Ceres, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reveals new pictures and a movie — the sharpest images to date of the Texas-sized dwarf planet.

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The tell-tale signs of a galactic merger

29 January 2015 Astronomy Now

NGC 7714 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces that drifted too close to its companion. The gravitational interaction has twisted its spiral arms out of shape, dragged streams of material out into space, and triggered bright bursts of star formation.

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Chandra celebrates the International Year of Light

26 January 2015 Astronomy Now

The United Nations has declared 2015 the International Year of Light, and to recognise the start of the event, the Chandra X-ray Center is releasing a set of images that combine data from telescopes tuned to different wavelengths of light.

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Rosetta sees a blaze of cometary activity

17 January 2015 Astronomy Now

The high resolution camera aboard Rosetta has captured a stunning view of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko showing multiple jets streaming away from the surface.

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