Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong’s first steps from the Lunar Module
This video clip is from the Apollo missions.
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This picture is an artist’s impression showing how the binary star system of Sirius A and its diminutive blue companion, Sirius B, might appear to an interstellar visitor. The large, bluish-white star Sirius A dominates the scene, while Sirius B is the small but very hot and blue white-dwarf star on the right. The two stars revolve around each other every 50 years. White dwarfs are the leftover remnants of stars similar to our Sun.
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Jupiter Pictures Gallery – Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – As Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter, it captured this photo of the Great Red Spot. – NASA
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Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit, deploys a lunar surface television camera during lunar surface simulation training in bldg 9, Manned Spacecraft Center. Armstrong is the prime crew commander of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
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Using Newton’s new Laws of motion, the astronomer, Edmond Halley, made a prediction in 1705. He stated that a comet which had appeared in 1531, 1607 and 1682 would reappear in 1758. Although he was proven to be correct, Halley did not live to see it. However, the comet was later named in his honor. During the 20th century, Halley’s Comet appeared in 1910 and 1986. During that most recent visit, five spacecraft from the USSR, Japan, and the European Community journeyed to Comet Halley.
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Mercury Pictures Gallery – Mercury’s South Pole – Mercury’s south pole was photographed by one of Mariner 10’s TV cameras as the spacecraft made its second close flyby of the planet September 21. The pole is located inside the large crater (180 kilometers, 110 miles) on Mercury’s limb (lower center). The crater floor is shadowed and its far rim, illuminated by the sun, appears to de disconnected from the edge of the planet. – NASA/JPL/Northwestern University
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Black Holes Pictures Gallery – STIS Records a Black Hole’s Signature – The colorful "zigzag" on the right is not the work of a flamboyant artist, but the signature of a supermassive black hole in the center of galaxy M84, discovered by Hubble Space Telescope’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). – Gary Bower, Richard Green (NOAO), the STIS Instrument Definition Team, and NASA
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LDEF: Postflight Detail-Front Upper Left 1/4
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