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This ghostly apparition is actually an interstellar cloud caught in the process of destruction by strong radiation from a nearby hot star. This haunting picture, snapped by the Hubble telescope, shows a cloud illuminated by light from the bright star Merope. Located in the Pleiades star cluster, the cloud is called IC 349 or Barnard's Merope Nebula.

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First Color Image of Mars
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This is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It is the highest resolution image ever taken on the surface of another planet. Space Wallpaper


1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 This is a series of images of Saturn, as seen at many different wavelengths, when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. Saturn experiences seasonal tilts away from and toward the Sun, much the same way Earth does. This happens over the course of its 29.5-year orbit. Space Wallpaper	1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each object is a lump of ice and rock — roughly the size of Philadelphia — orbiting beyond Neptune and Pluto, where the icy bodies may have dwelled since the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.

1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 Astronaut Scott E. Parazynski, mission specialist, works with cables associated with the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) or Canadarm2 during one of two days of extravehicular activity (EVA).	1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 From the Earth to the Moon. Believe it or not, there are still people who believe our lunar landing was a hoax. Space Wallpaper

1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 The International Space Station, with a mission to enable long-term exploration of space and provide benefits to people on Earth.	1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 Blast off to new heights with the desktop wallpaper of a shuttle being lifted into orbit. Space Wallpaper

1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 Original 7 astronauts in Mercury space suits. Front row, left to right, are Walter M. Schirra Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn Jr., and M. Scott Carpenter. Back row, from the left, are Alan B. Shepard Jr., Virgil I. Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper Jr.	1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 The Moon has inspired more curiosity in humans throughout history than any other object in the sky. Space Wallpaper

1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 Does this ring a bell? Keep Saturn on your desktop.	1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 Back-dropped by the blackness of space, this full view of the International Space Station (ISS) was photographed by a crewmember on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis following the undocking of the two spacecraft on October 16, 2002.

1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 This fiery ball in our daytime sky is our own personal star.	1024x768 \| 800x600 \| 640x480 Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon near a leg of the Lunar Module during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA).