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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 5h
the universe wishes everyone in the lgbtq+ community a very happy national coming out day!! 🏳️‍🌈🌌 enjoy this pride flag made with real nasa imagery!!
A pride flag where each colorful stripe is made from a real NASA image.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dust on the window. the moon outside. humanity in the reflection.
 A beautifully detailed crescent Moon seen through a spacecraft window, its illuminated surface revealing countless craters. Reflections of two hands and parts of the spacecraft’s interior appear in the glass, alongside tiny specks of dust, creating an intimate contrast between human presence and the vast darkness of space.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i love having a cat
My black cat Nova hunched over eating spilled treats from a box.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
all lesbians and lgbtq+ people in general are very welcome here!! bigots can fuck right off :)
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the universe wishes all lesbians a very happy international lesbian day!!
A breathtaking close-up of a colorful nebula, featuring swirling clouds of pink, purple, blue, orange, and golden gas and dust. Dark, shadowy regions contrast with glowing wisps of material, while bright stars shine throughout the scene, including two prominent stars with cross-shaped diffraction spikes. The lesbian pride flag with orange, white, and pink on it
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
apollo 12 (1969) | artemis ii (2026)
A small, delicate crescent Earth glows pale blue-white against the darkness of space, photographed through an Apollo 12 spacecraft window. The image has a soft, grainy appearance, with faint reflections and reddish-orange spacecraft framing visible along the right edge.A thin crescent Earth shines against the blackness of space, its illuminated edge revealing a faint blue-white glow. Photographed through an Artemis II spacecraft window, the crescent appears near the center of the image, surrounded by darkness and the curved metallic structure of the window frame.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
now wait a minute… that whole album is a BANGER no skips and trust me i say this as the ceo of mr brightside
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
zero-gravity indicators are SO cute
A Snoopy plush toy wearing a bright orange NASA astronaut suit floats inside a spacecraft. The suit features blue trim, mission patches, and black-and-white boots. Cables, equipment, and white interior panels surround the floating plush.Rise, the Artemis II zero-g indicator. A small, round plush toy with a smiling face, rosy cheeks, and a blue-and-green Earth design on top. It wears a dark blue cap decorated with yellow stars and embroidered space-themed details. People are blurred in the background.A small, brown crocheted dragon floats in front of a spacecraft window, its legs and arms stretched outward. Beyond the window, Earth's curved horizon, blue atmosphere, and swirling white clouds fill the background.A colorful crocheted planet floats in front of a spacecraft window overlooking Earth. The round plush features spiraling patterns of green, blue, purple, and yellow yarn, with several smaller crocheted objects attached around it. Earth's blue-and-white surface is visible through the window behind it.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
we didn’t appreciate these images enough.
Earth rising above the Moon’s crater-covered horizon against the blackness of space. The partially illuminated blue-and-white planet reveals swirling clouds and oceans, while the rugged gray lunar surface stretches across the foreground.A wide view of the Moon’s heavily cratered surface, with Earth appearing as a small, partially illuminated blue-and-white crescent just above the lunar horizon on the upper left. Countless impact craters cover the curved lunar landscape, contrasting with the deep black background of space.A dramatic close-up of the Moon’s densely cratered surface dominating the left side of the image. Beyond the sharply sloping lunar horizon, a partially illuminated Earth appears against the blackness of space, its bright blue oceans and white cloud formations visible along the sunlit crescent.Earth peeking above the Moon’s sloping horizon, with its bright blue-and-white upper portion visible against the blackness of space. The foreground reveals an expansive, rugged lunar landscape covered in countless impact craters of varying sizes, with pronounced shadows highlighting the terrain.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 08/10/2026
Our home planet sure is pretty. Earth, from Artemis II.
That's us. That's home.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
she died on september 30, but i’m just now hearing of this
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
in honor of margaret hamilton, i’m posting this iconic image of her standing next to the printed apollo flight software that she and her team developed that helped take humans to the moon. rest in peace to an incredible inspiration for women in the space industry.
Margaret Hamilton standing proudly next to a large stack of books as tall as her.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the friendship bracelet with earth being visible out the window oh my god i’m so emotional this is such a human photo
A colorful beaded friendship bracelet floating in front of a spaceship window with Earth visible outside.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
why is no one talking bout the fact that nasa just casually dropped 1,000 new artemis ii images today??!!!
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the recent jwst images have been insane
A young star cluster filled with many stars that display Webb’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas that extends from the star to the left border of the image. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust. 

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Processing: Alyssa Pagan.A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the center. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's center; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in color; bright, nearby stars are the same color.A star-forming region. The left two thirds of the image is blanketed in thick clouds of green and yellow gas and dust that form swirling patterns. Some of the gas is spread into thin, thready wisps. The right third of the image is the black background speckled with stars and multi-colored dots that represent distant galaxies. Bright stars are scattered throughout the clouds, with the densest cluster situated in the center of the scene. Each is crowned with six long spikes and two shorter spikes created by the optics of the telescope’s mirrors.
A region of space filled with bright stars and clouds of gas. In the center, the densest clouds form the shape of a chest with its lid open. The chest appears to glow from within. At its base it breaks apart into long pillars of thick gas. Many of the gas clouds in the background are dark orange globules, while others form large, pale hazes. A few brightly shining stars lie in the foreground, the biggest and brightest in front of the chest’s lid.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
GOOGLE HAS A BANNER FOR WORLD SPACE WEEK!!
Google home page with a space banner
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is a recent picture of the surface of mars. it looks so much like earth.
Cliffs and rock formations on the surface of Mars.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
DON’T BE SAD, A BEAUTIFUL NEW JWST IMAGE DROPPED!!!
A young star cluster filled with many stars that display Webb’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas that extends from the star to the left border of the image. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust. 

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Processing: Alyssa Pagan.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
earth on the horizon, taken during apollo 8
Apollo 8 view of Earth rising above the Moon’s gray, cratered horizon. Earth appears small and blue-white near the upper right, while a dark, out-of-focus section of the spacecraft window and interior framing fills the lower foreground against the blackness of space.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
yes they had careers and were astronauts and such beforehand but you get my point.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if you ever feel behind in life, just remember that the artemis ii crew are all in their late 40s and early 50s and they went to the MOON. some of the biggest moments of your life can still be ahead of you.
Artemis II crew posing in their orange space suits.Artemis II crew posing together with their hats and blue flight suits. Reid Wiseman is holding Rise.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this image was made by combining two separate images of the night sky and putting them together to show both planets!
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
those two little dots are earth and venus seen in the martian night sky by the curiosity rover!!!
Two little white dots on the top and bottom of the image of a gray Martian sky. Those are Earth and Venus.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
right pic is mine :)
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
orion from space | orion from earth
The constellation Orion captured from the ISS with many other stars in frame above the Earth and the ISS also in frame at the top of the image.The Orion constellation in the night sky.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 05/10/2026
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i love the restored apollo images
View from inside an Apollo spacecraft looking through a dark window toward a tiny crescent Earth in the distance. Parts of the spacecraft interior and window frame are visible around the small illuminated planet.A thin crescent Earth hangs above the rugged lunar horizon against the blackness of space. The Moon’s cratered surface stretches across the bottom of the image.A distant, partially illuminated Earth floating alone in deep black space. Swirling white clouds and blue-gray oceans are visible on the lit side.Close-up of a circular Apollo spacecraft window surrounded by metal hardware, markings, bolts, and controls. The window is scratched and speckled, with faint reflections and a dim view of space beyond.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this is one of the scariest space images out there. the darkness in the background is terrifying.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
HAPPY FIRST DAY OF WORLD SPACE WEEK!!! SPACE IS SO BEAUTIFUL
A region of space filled with bright stars and clouds of gas. In the center, the densest clouds form the shape of a chest with its lid open. The chest appears to glow from within. At its base it breaks apart into long pillars of thick gas. Many of the gas clouds in the background are dark orange globules, while others form large, pale hazes. A few brightly shining stars lie in the foreground, the biggest and brightest in front of the chest’s lid.
A colorful nebula filled with reddish-brown and golden clouds of gas and dust, dotted with many bright blue-white stars. A very bright star near the center glows through a faint bluish haze, while darker cloud formations create dramatic shapes around the scene.A richly detailed star-forming region filled with glowing purple, pink, orange, and brown clouds of gas and dust. Thousands of stars are scattered across the black background, with bright lavender regions illuminating the surrounding nebula and dark dust lanes cutting through the center.A spiral galaxy. It has a prominent spiral arm on one side (lower left) and a wide, glowing core. Dark brown filaments of dust swirl through its disk, while blue clusters of stars are visible mostly going out to its arm. On the opposite side of the arm (upper right), gas trails off from the disk, beyond the field of view in this image. A matching spiral arm is not visible on this side. The galaxy lies on a dark background.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
who wants to drive up to the mountains and go stargazing and escape society for a bit with me
A tent under the stars and Milky Way with mountains in the background A campfire under the stars
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
sorry for the depressionposting lately, things are… not good rn and i don’t like to sugarcoat it.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i know i’m not, but i genuinely feel like I’m behind in life.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
apollo 17 (1972) | artemis ii (2026)
Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger on the Moon, with its gold and silver foil-covered structure filling the lower left of the frame. A small, partially illuminated Earth hangs in the black sky above it.NASA’s Orion spacecraft during Artemis II, seen from a camera on one of its solar array wings. Part of the spacecraft and propulsion hardware fills the left side of the image, while a bright crescent Earth appears against the blackness of space on the right.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
on this day in 1958, nasa officially launched operations!! since then, its sent man to the moon, sent spacecraft beyond our home planet, sent robots to the surface of mars, and there’s still so much more to come. space science is important and worth funding.
NASA logo
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 01/10/2026
This is a cool photo of Venus! Photographed through the rings of Saturn.
A complex, curving pattern of lines that make up Saturn's vast ring system, in various gold and grey hues. The white arc at right is the limb of the planet itself. A tiny point of light is just upper right of centre.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
was that the one at ksc? i got an invite as well! wish you could’ve made it :( hope everything goes well with your treatment! 🩵
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
maybe stars are there to remind us that darkness isn’t the end of the story
A starry night sky above the treetops.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HUBBLE VS. JWST!!! 🌌 these are images of the SAME galaxy cluster taken more than a decade apart. look at how many more galaxies webb reveals… THIS IS INSANE 😭
A Hubble Space Telescope view of galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Against a mostly black background, dozens of small yellow, white, and bluish galaxies are scattered across the field, with a few bright foreground stars showing diffraction spikes.A James Webb Space Telescope view of the same galaxy cluster, packed with hundreds of galaxies in white, gold, orange, and blue. Bright foreground stars have prominent diffraction spikes, while stretched orange arcs and distorted galaxy shapes reveal gravitational lensing around the cluster.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thanks for letting me inspire some of you out there to reach for the stars.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
all i know is that no matter what happens, I WILL get a phd. i WILL have doctor in front of my name. i WILL work in astrobiology trying to find/understand habitable worlds. i WILL make my younger self proud.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
trying to remind myself that things not working out the way i originally planned might be a blessing in disguise, but it’s HARD when it seems like i worked so hard and failed. i can’t help but blame myself. i need prayers from everyone, and any advice on failure and setbacks.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW JWST IMAGE SHOWING GRAVITATIONAL LENSING!! 🌌 gravity bends and magnifies light from galaxies behind massive objects, sometimes making the same galaxy appear over 4 times! jwst found this happening TWICE in one cluster, for the first time!
A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the center. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's center; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in color; bright, nearby stars are the same color.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this isn’t about stars btw
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
stars don’t stop being beautiful even when they’re falling apart
This image of the Ring Nebula appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements.A vivid Hubble image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, showing a bright blue-green central region surrounded by intricate concentric shells, loops, and wisps of glowing gas in turquoise, pink, and orange. The layered structure gives the nebula a complex, almost eye-like appearance.Webb’s view of the Southern Ring Nebula appears as a misshapen oval that is slightly angled from the top left to the bottom right. The image shows one star at the center. A large translucent pink-and-red irregular oval surrounds the central stars.A Hubble image of the Butterfly Nebula, with two enormous wing-shaped lobes of glowing gas extending outward from a bright central star. The lobes are filled with fiery orange, red, pink, and blue clouds, while a dark band of dust cuts through the center.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THE EARTH AND MOON TODAY SEEN BY JUICE ON ITS FLYBY!!
Earth seen from space, bright blue and white against the blackness, with swirling cloud systems and part of the JUICE spacecraft visible in shadow along the left side of the frame.A thin crescent Moon illuminated along its left side, revealing craters and rugged surface detail while the rest fades into darkness against a black background.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
would you want to stand on the surface of mars?
A hazy, yellow-tinted view of the Martian landscape captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Rocky terrain fills the foreground, while layered hills fade into a thick dusty atmosphere in the distance, giving the scene a soft, almost sepia-toned appearance.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes, this is a real image of jupiter, the universe is an artist
Enhanced-color image of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, showing the planet’s curved edge against black space. Jupiter’s atmosphere is filled with intricate swirling clouds and storms in deep blue, brown, orange, cream, and white, with several bright oval storms scattered across the scene. The turbulent cloud patterns resemble brushstrokes in a painting, especially around the darker blue south polar region.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i wish i was as pretty as the moon
Bright full moon in the night sky
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this might look like a picture of some random rocks, but it’s actually one of the last images of asteroid dimorphos taken by the dart spacecraft just seconds before it crashed into it!!!
Close-up black-and-white image of the rocky surface of asteroid Dimorphos, covered in jagged boulders and smaller debris. The image was captured by NASA’s DART spacecraft during its final approach, just seconds before it intentionally collided with the asteroid.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HAPPY NEPTUNE DISCOVERY DAY!!!!
Neptune glowing pale blue and pink against black space, with its faint rings visible encircling the planet and a small moon appearing to the right.False-color image of Neptune against black space, rendered in vivid blue, cyan, purple, and red, highlighting atmospheric structure, bright clouds, and a small bright storm feature in the lower hemisphere.A full-disk view of Neptune against a black background, appearing deep blue with subtle atmospheric banding and a darker oval storm near the upper portion of the planet.Close-up view of Neptune’s blue atmosphere showing bright white clouds, faint horizontal bands, and the large dark oval of the Great Dark Spot with a bright cloud feature near its center.
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