Caturday’s Astronomy Pix for August 5-11, 2012

Msl20110613 PIA14252 left-side 0603 T003-full (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IC 1396: Emission Nebula in Cepheus

Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern Night

A Wheel on Mars

Curiosity Drops In

Mars in the Loop

Perseid Below

The First Color Panorama from Mars by Curiosity

The four hemispheric views shown above have been combined into a full-color global map (called a Mollweide projection), showing the regions of Mars imaged by the Hubble telescope during the planet’s closest approach to Earth. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Caturday’s Astronomy Pix is a weekly installment, published each weekend with links to each daily entry on NASA’s website Astronomy Picture of the Day. I hope you enjoy looking at these often breathtaking images as much as I do.

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All images in this post are original works by the author, created via Mandelbulber using custom parameter settings, and are copyright 2012 Troy Loy

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