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Photograph of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station which was the launch pad for the rockets of the first manned space missions, such as Gemini and Apollo

The Huygens probe parachute down to the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan

The Cat's Eye Nebula has one of the most complex form of this kind of nebula. It has eleven rings as shells of gas

Image of the comet Hyakutake. Comets are composed mainly of rock and ice and when they approach the Sun some of the ice in its nucleus turns into gas. Τhe solar wind carries the gas outward forming a long tail

View of the comet McNaught over New Zealand in 2007

The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 torn into pieces as a result of a close approach to Jupiter in July 1992

View of a fragment of the comet Shoemaker Levy 9, which fell into Jupiter piece by piece

The coral reefs are created by tiny animals, the polyps of the jellyfish's family that secrete carbonate calcium. They grow in shallow water and consist solely of living creatures

Photograph of Aleksei Leonov, the first man made a spacewalk as a member of the program Voskhod ( March 18, 1965)

Photo of Yuri Gagarin, the first man who traveled the universe (April 12, 1961)

The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova, spans about 10 light years and in its center lies a pulsar

The Crab Nebula in the constellation of Taurus, as a result of a Supernova in a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

An x-ray image of the center of Crab Nebula, where the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star is hidden

Artist's conception of curvature of spacetime. The presence of matter changes the geometry of spacetime

A huge asteroid splash led into the death of the dinosaurs. The picture depicts a Tyrannosaurus that is feasting on a dead Triceratop