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okaawhatever

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Tue Mar 11, 2014, 12:20 AM Mar 2014

Love 'Cosmos?' Then NASA's 'Images Of A Space-Time Odyssey' Will Make Your Jaw Drop (PHOTOS) [View all]

The premiere of "Cosmos," Neil deGrasse Tyson's new TV series, has a lot of science geeks massively pumped. And that includes the folks at NASA, who welcomed the 13-part series by releasing a stunning new gallery of space photos on Flickr.

From a psychedelic vortex on Saturn to monster solar flares to the beautiful remnants of dying stars, prepare to get seriously psyched about space. Just check out 30 of the amazing images below.



Unlike Earth, Venus lacks a magnetic field to deflect powerful solar outbursts -- as can be seen in this NASA-created image, a still from the video "Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine."



The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054.



NASA, ESA, and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught Jupiter's moon Ganymede playing a game of "peek-a-boo." In this crisp image, Ganymede is shown just before it ducks behind the giant planet.

Continued at Link with several more pictures:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/10/cosmos-nasa-gallery-space-photos_n_4935892.html?utm_hp_ref=technology&ir=Technology

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