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NASA posted this snap of astronaut James H. Newman on November 20, 1998, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the International Space Station.

Out-of-this-world NASA Instagram photos —
A #nofilter image of the surface of Mars, courtesy NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover.

Out-of-this-world NASA Instagram photos —
Super Typhoon Haiyan lashing the Philippines, taken from NASA's Aqua satellite on November 7.

Out-of-this-world NASA Instagram photos —
There it goes! A still camera on a sound trigger captured this intriguing photo of an airborne frog in the foreground as NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft lifts off toward the moon. This foreground photobomber stole the show, earning this snap almost 25,000 likes.

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This one went viral too: a new view of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. It's a natural color image that shows the view as it would be seen by a human observer.

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A throwback to 2010 for the International Space Station's 15th anniversary: NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson looks down at Earth through a window on the ISS.

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NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg takes a selfie with Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano behind her.

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From the Hubble telescope: the crowded center of the Milky Way, showing the constellation Sagittarius. Right in the center of the image is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*, consuming clouds of dust as it affects its environment with its enormous gravitational pull.

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A historic image of Earth from the moon, taken on July 20, 1969, from Apollo 11.

Out-of-this-world NASA Instagram photos —
A view of spiral galaxy IC 2560 captured from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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To celebrate the launch of Mars probe MAVEN on November 18, NASA showed off this mosaic from the Viking 1 Orbiter, which passed by the planet over 30 years ago, on February 22, 1980.

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A Soyuz spacecraft carrying new International Space Station residents Oleg Kotov, Mike Hopkins and Sergey Ryazanskiy arrives at the space station in September.

Out-of-this-world NASA Instagram photos —
Earth on September 7, as seen by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, which looks out for atmospheric "triggers" for severe weather conditions such as flash floods and hurricanes.

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Drifting away: three nanosatellites, known as Cubesats, are deployed from the ISS airlock.

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Expedition 36 flight engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA is carried to the medical tent shortly after landing in Kazakhstan on September 11, having spent five and a half months on the International Space Station.