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This image provided by European Southern Observatory, taken by the MUSE instrument, mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope and shows the region R44 within the Carina Nebula, 7500 light-years away. Scientists say these new images appear to be pillars of destruction, in which massive new stars destroy the clouds of gas from which they were born. (European Southern Observatory via AP)

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This Cassini image features a density wave in Saturn's A ring (at left) that lies around 134,500 km from Saturn. Density waves are accumulations of particles at certain distances from the planet. This feature is filled with clumpy perturbations, which researchers informally refer to as "straw." The wave itself is created by the gravity of the moons Janus and Epimetheus, which share the same orbit around Saturn. Elsewhere, the scene is dominated by "wakes" from a recent pass of the ring moon Pan.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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A photograph from every non-terrestrial surface visited by a man made robot

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when the hell did titan get landed on?

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when the hell did titan get landed on?

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In 2005, an alien probe flew through the hazy and cold atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and landed on the world's surface.

That spacecraft — named the Huygens probe — was sent from Earth by the European Space Agency along with the Cassini spacecraft to help humanity learn more about Saturn and its 53 known moons.

Thanks to a new video released by NASA, you can relive the Huygens' descent to Titan's surface 12 years after it actually landed.

The video shows actual footage from the spacecraft's point of view as it passed through the hazy layers of Titan's atmosphere, spotted "drainage canals" that suggest rivers of liquid methane run on the moon and gently set down on the surface, NASA said.

On Jan. 14, 2005, ESA's Huygens probe made its descent to the surface of Saturn's hazy moon, Titan. Carried to Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Huygens made the most distant landing ever on another world, and the only landing on a body in the outer solar system. This video uses actual images taken by the probe during its two-and-a-half hour fall under its parachutes.

Huygens was a signature achievement of the international Cassini-Huygens mission, which will conclude on Sept. 15, 2017, when Cassini plunges into Saturn's atmosphere.

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This stereo image from Cassini offers 3D views of Saturn's weird moon Pan, during a final closeup by the NASA spacecraft on March 7, 2017. If you have red-blue anaglyph glasses, the images will appear 3D.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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wtf man..

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A photograph from every non-terrestrial surface visited by a man made robot

That blue sky on Mars looks promising..

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Stunning Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud - Hubble Zoom-In Video
By Steve Spaleta | March 30, 2017 12:00pm ET

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and hosts the remnant of a Type Ia supernova explosion, named N103B. Hubble Space Telescope imagery was used to create this zoom-in video of the remnant.

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this shot of the Saturn moon Enceladus on March 29, 2017, from a distance of about 110,000 miles (180,000 kilometers). Image scale is 0.6 miles (1 km) per pixel.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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A stunning new view of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, captures beautiful layers of bluish-yellow haze in the moon's atmosphere.

The image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on March 31, 2005. The photo shows individual layers of haze in the upper atmosphere of Titan — the second-largest moon in the solar system and the only moon known to have clouds and a dense atmosphere.