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Space News Alert! Cosmic March in Best PHOTOS

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This March has become a busy month for space explorers and scientists. A Soyuz rocket launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, discoveries of new space objects and stunning shots of those we already know are in Sputnik's gallery.

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Russian astronaut Oleg Artemyev shares his space experience with 192 thousand followers of his Instagram account. Have a look at our mother Earth from his point of view.
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The Soyuz MS-08 spaceflight, launched on the Baikonur Cosmodrome on March, 21st, brought three crew members to the International Space Station.
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The sand dunes of the Red Planet reminds of the desert landscapes of the neighboring Earth.
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The Carina Nebula, registered under less poetic name NGC 3372, is 10,000 light years away from the Earth, which can't stop us from enjoying its bright stars.
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The dinosaurs saw the galaxy NGC 3972 in the the Great Bear constellation, captured by the Hubble telescope, in the same way as we do now.
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Galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 was expected to contain 400 times more dark matter than observations show.
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NASA's Richard Arnold and Andrew Feustel had to delay their work in outer space for extra-check, but still managed it.
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This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region.
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The Soyuz MS-08 spaceflight brought three new crew members to the International Space Station on March, 23d.
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This view from NASA's Dawn mission shows where ice has been detected in the northern wall of Ceres' Juling Crater, which is in almost permanent shadow.
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This image captures a close-up view of a storm with bright cloud tops in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter.
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The long coronal hole that stretched out across more than half the diameter of the Sun became the single largest feature on our own star.
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Space pirate alert! The Tortuga Island beloved by sea-robbers has unexpected looks from above.
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M62 is known for being one of the most irregularly shaped globular clusters in our galaxy. This might be because it is too close to the center of our galaxy and is affected by galactic tidal forces, displacing many of the cluster’s stars toward the southeast.
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This stunning image from Hubble shows the majestic galaxy NGC 1015, found nestled within the constellation of Cetus (The Whale) 118 million light-years from Earth. Beautifully symmetrical swirling arms and bright central bulge creat a scene akin to a sparkling Catherine wheel firework.
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