On January 30, 2017, Cassini Passed 25,620 Miles From Mimas . All Future Observations Of Mimas Will Be

Asturias by Daniel Pastor

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Behold an acrobatic spacewalker with a handheld maneuvering thruster in a 1958 space card from Topps.

The western half of Australia, as seen from the Gemini XI spacecraft, 850 miles above the Earth.

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Amazing 1957 space cards from Topps.

A Visualization of the Closest Star Systems that Contain Planets in the Habitable Zone, and Their Distances from Earth

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Photography by Albert Hongbo Yang

From the vantage point of the International Space Station, astronaut Shane Kimbrough (@astro_kimbrough) captured this image over the Earth, writing “Looking west over the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.  #EarthArt from the amazing space station.”

The space station serves as the world’s laboratory for conducting cutting-edge microgravity research, and is the primary platform for technology development and testing in space to enable human and robotic exploration of destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, including asteroids and Mars.

Gas and water jet on Enceladus