
The Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters, although there seem to be more. Above and to the right of Orion the Hunter, 425 light years away. /NASA

The Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters, although there seem to be more. Above and to the right of Orion the Hunter, 425 light years away. /NASA

The true colors of Earth acquired from space: green forests, brown mountains, tan deserts, white ice, and oceans of blue. /NASA

I can’t look at a picture of Voyager 1 without recalling V ger of the Star Trek episode which made a less than satisfying movie. V ger or Voyager, the farthest traveling human-made object in the cosmos (as far as we know), is still sending news as it traverses the outer edge of the gas bubble we live in, about 10 billion miles away. Some people can’t get excited about this stuff. They don’t realize they’re living in a bubble of gas.
The “bullet cluster,” a mere 3.4 billion light-years away./NASA
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Hubble’s take on the Orion Nebula, the nearest star-forming region.