Gallery: Here's What Space Actually Looks Like to the Human Eye

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    Uranus and its rings. Voyager 2, January 24, 1986.
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    Pluto and its hazy atmosphere. New Horizons, July 14, 2015.
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    Jupiter and Ganymede, the planet's largest moon. Cassini, January 10, 2001.
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    Mimas in Saturn’s ring shadows, one of the planet’s many moons. Cassini, January 18, 2005.
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    Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon. It’s lit by the sun on the left and backlit by the reflecting surface of Saturn to the right. Cassini, December 25, 2009.
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    Saturn’s northern region partly shadowed by the planet’s rings. Cassini, January 20, 2007.
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    A photo of Saturn, using 36 images shot through red, green, and blue filters. Cassini, October 10, 2013.
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    Crescent Earth. Here the Caribbean Sea appears illuminated by an immense spotlight. Known as a specular reflection, the phenomenon occurs when the angle of the sun’s rays causes them to reflect off the surface of the water. GOES West, May 18, 2015.
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    Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko emits gas and dust as the comet heats up, about a month before it reaches the closest point to the sun along its orbit. Rosetta, July 7, 2015.
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    Mars. Data captured by Rosetta, February 24, 2007.
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    Saturn, Mimas and Tethys. The rings are nearly edge-on in this equatorial view of Saturn and two of its moons. Mimas is the tiny black dot to the left of the dark line while Tethys is above to the right. Cassini, July 16, 2005.
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    The ridges and faults of Europa’s icy surface. It’s one of Jupiter’s many moons. Galileo, March 29, 1998.
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