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Saturns rings, Cassini image

Saturn's rings, Cassini image. The rings consist of particles of nearly pure water ice and meteoric dust and span almost 300, 000 kilometres. The largest gap in the rings is the Cassini Division, which separates the A (outer) and B (inner) rings. The smaller gap within the A ring is the Encke Gap. Pandora, one of Saturn's moons, is seen as a minute speck above the A ring at upper left. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched in 1997 to investigate Saturn, its rings and its moons. This image was taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera on the 13th April 2007 at a distance of 1.8 million kilometres from Saturn

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Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Creator: Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Reflected in Aldrin's visor are Neil Armstrong taking the photograph, the US flag, and the Eagle'. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module, code named Eagle, with US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on board, landed in the Sea of Tranquillity on 20 July 1969. Apollo 11 was the fifth manned Apollo mission, and was the first to land on the Moon

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Jodrell Telescope

18th April 1957: Almost completed, the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire. The responsibility of Manchester University and partly funded by the Nuffield Foundation. It is a copper mesh supported by two towers, within the mesh which can swivel and rotate, is a lensless telescope. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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