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The Nile River as seen from space.

"My battery is low and it's getting dark." This line captures the essence of Opportunity's last data signal. The rover was meant to explore Mars for just 90 days, yet it kept going for nearly fifteen years. Opportunity’s final transmission was telemetry data showing low power and reduced light during a dust storm which was interpreted as a gentle farewell: "My battery is low and it's getting dark." A graceful parting from a machine that became something deeply meaningful to us. Until we meet again, dear friend.

Calabash Nebula (a.k.a. the “Pumpkin Nebula” in spirit)!Picture this: a dying star, late in life, suddenly inflates like your uncle after too much turkey, then blasts its outer layers into space at nearly a million kilometers per hour. The result? A lopsided, gloriously wonky, golden-orange cosmic gourd glowing in the void, exactly the kind of weird, character-packed pumpkin your grandma would proudly plunk on the porch and declare “perfect.”So while you’re carving the bird, a star 5,000 light-years away just went full Thanksgiving chaos and yeeted its festive guts across the galaxy.Happy Thanksgiving from the Hubble team, and from one very proud, very asymmetrical space pumpkin!(ESA/Hubble & NASA; Processing: Judy Schmidt)

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This is a meteorite. Resting on Mars. Captured by a robot explorer sent by humans. 225 million miles from home. 🚀

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The “Cosmic Tornado” (HH 49/50) looked like a mystery cloud in the Spritz Space Telescope's view. The James Webb Telescope zoomed in-and found a hidden spiral galaxy at its tip. 🌪️