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Mare Frigoris : Lighter than typically dark, smooth, mare the Mare Frigoris lies in the far lunar north. Also known as the Sea of Cold, it stretches across the familiar lunar nearside in this close up of the waxing gibbous Moon’s north polar region. Dark-floored, 95 kilometer wide crater Plato is just left of the center. Sunlit peaks of the lunar Alps (Montes Alpes) are highlighted below and right of Plato, between the more southern Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) and Mare Frigoris. The prominent straight feature cutting through the mountains is the lunar Alpine Valley (Vallis Alpes). Joining the Mare Imbrium and Mare Frigoris, the lunar valley is about 160 kilometers long and up to 10 kilometers wide. via NASA
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Fall deep into outer space 🌌 gifs made by me :)
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Star-Forming Region NGC 2174 by Hubble Heritage
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NGC 6334 - The Cat’s Paw Nebula. Credit:NASA, ESA, Hubble.
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Carl Sagan, born on this day in 1934: “The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.”
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