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AstroSam

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y'all know most of these are artist renditions right?
Correct - but on both sides there are fascinating pictures and visions, so I thought: why not? As long as Star Citizen isn't live I'll have a daily look into this thread :D
 
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AstroSam

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Damn, that is FAR away O.O
Voyager always let me think at Star Trek I :)

Nice vid: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/audiovideo/discovery20110428-1280.mov


Fast facts:
The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Continuing on their more-than-37-year journey since their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the sun than Pluto. In August 2012, Voyager 1 made the historic entry into interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago. Scientists hope to learn more about this region when Voyager 2, in the “heliosheath" -- the outermost layer of the heliosphere where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar medium -- also reaches interstellar space. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network, or DSN.

The primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. After making a string of discoveries there -- such as active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings -- the mission was extended. Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets. The adventurers' current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), will explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. And beyond.
More on http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/
 

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A cluster of massive stars seen with the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust called a nebula. The nebula, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, contains the central cluster of huge, hot stars, called NGC 3603. Recent research shows that galactic cosmic rays flowing into our solar system originate in clusters like these.
Credits: NASA/U. Virginia/INAF, Bologna, Italy/USRA/Ames/STScI/AURA
 
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