Twenty Photos of Space that are Out Of This World (Literally)

It's easy to get caught up in the small things (cat videos) and forget that we are all living on a big oxygenated sphere floating in one of a million galaxies. As mundane as our lives can get down here on Earth, there's one place that is never mundane: space. Here are twenty photos of space, planets, galaxies and nebulas that are so far removed from your 9 to 5 life that they'll make you feel both insignificant and in awe of the amazing things happening all around us in space. Perhaps this will make your life feel a little less meaningless.

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Three moons and their shadows moving across Jupiter.

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A planetary nebula; the remains of a sun-like star.

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An 81 megapixel picture of the moon taken by an amateur photographer.

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The Pillars of Creation are 'elephant trunks' of cooler interstellar gas eroding by the intense winds and radiation from nearby stars. This image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.

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This image shows one of the rarest predictable solar events: Venus moving across the sun.

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An 81 megapixel photograph of the moon by a Reddit user.

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This is the Pinwheel Galaxy or M101. This photograph was taken using infared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from three NASA telescopes. This galaxy is 70% larger than our Milky Way.

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A meteor leaves a smoke ring in the night sky.

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A high resolution detailed picture of Pluto.

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The Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus.

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The Orion Nebula - the brightest spot in the constellation Orion.

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A radar image of Venus.

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The United Kingdom seen from space.

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Frost on the surface of Mars taken by Viking 2.

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The Milky Way captured from Arthur's Pass, New Zealand.

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The many characters of our moon.

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Two of Jupiter's moons passing in front of the Great Red Spot.

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Jupiter's invisible rings made visible with infrared.

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The true colors of the sunflower galaxy.

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A high resolution image taken of Saturn by NASA's space probe Cassini.

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