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Cool video from the ESA showing what Mars bound astronauts would see from their cockpit -- the Red Planet turning below. Time-compressed video of single Mars Express orbit 27 May 2010, with inset showing altitude. Celestia simulation of Mars Express orbital path 27 May 2010 Source: ESA

Artist's impression and animation of a celestial impact suggested by observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers say that two rocky bodies, one as least as big as our moon and the other at least as big as Mercury, slammed into each other within the last few thousand years or so — not long ago by cosmic standards. The impact destroyed the smaller body, vaporizing huge amounts of rock and flinging massive plumes of hot lava into space. Spitzer's infrared detectors were able to pick up the signatures of the vaporized rock, along with pieces of refrozen lava, called tektites. -- August '09 Press Release Image and Animation Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

ESA’s Herschel observatory is back to full operation following the reactivation of its HiFi instrument.

Experience the gripping story-full of hope, crushing dissapointment, dazzling ingenuity, bravery, and triumph - in Hubble 3D, the seventh awe-inspiring film from the award winning IMAX Space Team. Vividly captured in IMAX 3D, Hubble 3D recounts the amazing journey of the most important scientific instrument since Galileo's original telescope and the greatest sucess in space since the moon landing - the Hubble Space Telescope. Audiences will accompany the space walking astronauts as they attempt the most difficult task ever undertaken in NASA's history, and will experience up close the awesome power of the launches, the hearbreaking setbacks, and the dramatic rescues of this most powerful story. Hubble 3D will also reveal the cosmos as never before - allowing viewers of all ages to explore the grandeur of the nebulae and the galaxies, the birth and death of stars, and some of the greatest mysteries of our celestial surroundings, all in amazing IMAX 3D.

The top 4 5 animations that show the size of the earth in relation to the planets, the sun and the stars...and for additional more perspective, see: collection of artist's impressions and photo illustrations of the solar system , CELL SIZE AND SCALE , Scale of Universe , UNIVERSCALE ... Edit: Add...