cassiopeia stellar nursery

False-color image of the Cassiopeia constellation, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The mountainous pillars are where stars are born. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian/CfA/ESA/STScl.

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_476.html
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large magellanic cloud

The star-forming region ('stellar nursery') of the Large Magellanic Cloud, ~157 light years away from Earth, in our Milky Way galaxy.

dscovr

For the first time since the famous Apollo 14 images from 1972, we now have a satellite beaming back images of Earth.

https://www.algore.com/project/the-deep-space-climate-observatory

pluto

Some amazing images coming from NASA's New Horizons probe of Pluto:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33543383?SThisFB&fb_ref=Default

india goes to mars

Launched on Nov. 5, 2013, India's MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission) goes into orbit around Mars.

http://www.space.com/27242-india-mars-mission-arrival.html

maven

After ten months in space, NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter goes into orbit around Mars.

http://www.space.com/23617-nasa-maven-mars-mission.html

rosetta

European Space Agency probe Rosetta enters orbit of comet:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28660575

voyager 1

We have left the Mother Ship.

http://www.space.com/22729-voyager-1-spacecraft-interstellar-space.html

ladee

NASA launches LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environmental Explorer) to examine the Moon's 'exosphere' (extremely thin atmosphere), 9/6/13.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/nasa-launches-ladee-virginia-20186452?tab=9482931&section=1206833

curiosity

Short update on the doings of the Mars rover Curiosity one year after its amazing landing on the surface of the Red Planet:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/08/05/science/100000002374272/a-year-on-mars.html

cassini images

This is an image of earth taken from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn on July 19, 2013, from almost a billion miles away:

http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/23/earth-photographed-by-nasa-probe-in-saturn-orbit-a-billion-miles-away-3894779/

Here's a closeup showing the Earth and Moon:

http://mashable.com/2013/07/22/earth-saturn-nasa-cassini/