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Ahuna Mons on Ceres Seen From Low-Altitude Mapping Orbit The mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons is seen in this mosaic of images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. via NASA http://ift.tt/1QBSTcl

Hubble and a Stellar Fingerprint Showcased at the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS 12196-6300, located just under 2,300 light-years from Earth. via NASA http://ift.tt/1VVtVog

Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly Back in Texas after His Year in Space Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA is seen after returning to Ellington Field, Thursday, March 3, 2016 in Houston, Texas after his return to Earth the previous day. via NASA http://ift.tt/1p1pcaC

Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns to Houston after a Year in Space Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns to Houston after a Year in Space via NASA http://ift.tt/1Skeya6

One-Year Crew Returns to Earth The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (Kazakh time). via NASA http://ift.tt/1Lw1RaL

Last Sunrise From a Year in Space NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared a series of five sunrise photographs on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, as he prepared to depart the space station and return to Earth aboard a Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft. Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov are scheduled to undock their Soyuz at 8:02 p.m. EST and land at 11:25 p.m. via NASA http://ift.tt/1LSMWSJ

Different Worlds Although Tethys and Janus both orbit Saturn and are both made of more or less the same materials, they are very different worlds. via NASA http://ift.tt/1RftqBR

Hubble’s Blue Bubble The distinctive blue bubble appearing to encircle WR 31a is a Wolf–Rayet nebula — an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other gases. Created when speedy stellar winds interact with the outer layers of hydrogen ejected by Wolf–Rayet stars, these nebulae are frequently ring-shaped or spherical. via NASA http://ift.tt/1oEvGez

Mathematician Katherine Johnson at Work NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which included calculating the trajectory of the 1961 flight of Alan Shepard. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 24, 2015. via NASA http://ift.tt/1QgSqsn

Flying Through the Aurora’s Green Fog Expedition 46 crew member Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA) shared a stunning image of a glowing aurora taken on Feb. 23, 2016, from the International Space Station. Peake wrote, „The @Space_Station just passed straight through a thick green fog of #aurora…eerie but very beautiful. #Principia“ via NASA http://ift.tt/1Qyiuyk