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NASA Year in Review 2012

Check out and read more on all of the groundbreaking scientific achievements from this past year, separated categorically as listed below, here.

Curiosity Landing

Commercial Space

International Space Station 

New Spacecraft

Hubble

Ice Sheets

Aeronautics

Digital Media

Technology

Hands On Learning 

Ice on Mercury

Interstellar Matter

WISE

Shuttle

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Beautiful nearby spiral galaxy IC 342 could be more famous if it wasn’t so hidden. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is almost hidden from view behind the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Similar in size to other large, bright spiral galaxies IC 342 is a mere 7 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation of the Giraffe (Camelopardalis). Even though IC 342’s light is dimmed by intervening cosmic clouds, this remarkably sharp telescopic image traces the galaxy’s own obscuring dust, blue star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy’s core. IC 342 may have undergone a recent burst of star formation activity and is close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group of galaxies and the Milky Way.

it’s times like this where you just can’t fall asleep, so you just start listening to sad music.