Saturn And Dione , 2005

Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades lies about 400 light years away toward the constellation of Taurus (Bull).

Picture Credit & Copyright: Stanislav Volskiy

Source: apod.nasa.gov

The Triangulum galaxy / Messier 33 / NGC 598

Credit : Maxime Duprez — Twitter

M7 : Open star cluster in Scorpius

Image credit & Copyright : Lorand Fenyes

The Deep Lagoon also known as M8, captured at Mt. Lemmon Skycentre, Arizona, is located on the constellation of Sagittarius towards the centre of Milky Way.

Image Credit : Adam Block//Mt. Lemmon SkyCentre Arizona//Univ.Arizona

Mile wide potentially hazardous asteroid to whizz past Earth tonight. Asteroid 1997 BQ — first identified in January of 1997, is hurtling towards us at an approximate speed of 13.3 km per second and will "closely approach" our planet on the evening of 21st May 2020. According to NASA estimates it will be a safe flyby with the asteroid passing within 3.8 miles of Earth, that's about 16 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.

Source: NASA

M106/NGC 4258 Nebula in X-ray, radio, infrared and optical light

Source : yearinspace.com

What would you take to the Moon with you?

Perfectly timed for Halloween, NASA is showing off a remarkable image of a ‘ghost nebula’ captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The incredible "Ghost of Cassiopeia" image was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA, ESA and STScI; Acknowledgment: H. Arab [University of Strasbourg])

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Earth and Moon from Saturn, a true color composite taken on July the 19th, 2013 from Cassini spacecraft at a distance of 898, 419, 474 miles or 1,445,865,990 kilometers away from Earth.

Credits : NASA/JPL/SSI/Composite by Val Klavans via Flickr

Egg NebulaPhoto by geckzilla via flickr(cc)