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Exoplanets And Cosmic Landscapes

Stylized illustrations of various planets, featuring cosmic backgrounds, atmospheres, and celestial phenomena like sunrise and breathtaking landscapes.

Artist's impression of an exoplanet.
Artist's impression of an exoplanet.
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This approximate true-color image from NASA's New Horizons shows hydrocarbons accumulating into small particles, a fraction of a micrometer in size, and scatter sunlight to make the bright blue haze seen in this image.
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Unlike the rolling volcanic plains of the north, the southern half of Mars is dominated by older, heavily cratered highlands
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Crescent Earth With Lunar Farside In Foreground. Taken By Apollo 17 Astronauts.
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Mars with technology Mars with technology. Computer generated 3d render Copyright: xZoonar.com/RomanxBudnikovx 21532897
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Mars, computer illustration.
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New Horizons encounters 2014 MU69, illustration
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Mars colonization two horizontal banners illustrated solar system and research mission isometric compositions vector illustration
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Mercury's Colorful Limb
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red planet in space with stars red planet in space with stars illustration Copyright: xZoonar.com/magannx 14215937
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Lunar Eclipse Phases, Blood moon, Composite Lunar Eclipse
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A massive asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere and impacts the planet.
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This graphic shows Venus, Earth and its Moon, and Mars.
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This image shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft leaving the giant asteroid Vesta and arriving at the dwarf planet Ceres.
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Artist's impression of Proxima's planet
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Using data collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, this animation shows the trajectories of rocky particles after being ejected from asteroid (101955) Bennu's surface. The animation emphasizes the four largest particle-ejection events detected at Bennu between December 2018 and September 2019. Additional particles not related to the ejections are also visible. Most of these pebble-size pieces of rock, typically measuring around a quarter inch (7 millimeters), were pulled back to Bennu under the asteroid's weak gravity after a short hop, sometimes even ricocheting back into space after colliding with the surface. Others remained in orbit for a few days and up to 16 revolutions. And some were ejected with enough force to completely escape from the Bennu environs. OSIRIS-REx which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer arrived at Bennu in December 2018. On Oct. 20, 2020, the mission will attempt to briefly touch down on the
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K/Th in the Inner Solar System
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Artist's concept of the first rocky world discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. The planet, called Kepler 10-b, is shown in front of its host star.
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This artist's conception illustrates the Kepler-16 system (white) from an overhead view, showing its planet Kepler-16b and the eccentric orbits of the two stars it circles (labeled A and B).
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3D render of glowing rings on a Martian landscape under a starry sky
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This diagram compares the planets of our inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet star system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.
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This frame from a movie, which extends across the hemisphere that faced New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, includes all of the highest-resolution images taken by the NASA probe.
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Exhibition art work. Moving to Mars at The Design Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: N/A, 2019.