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The 2005 Sunrise Solstice at Stonehenge
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Perisphinctes ammonite species from the Tulear region from the island of Madagascar This unique invertebrate was part of marine life over 160 million years ago. Ammonites are extinct members of the Cephalopod class. Modern members include nautilus, squid and octopus. They first appeared d...
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Banksy's renown is growing as his work spreads to London and elsewhere, but he started by leaving his distinctive mark all around his home town. Read more Banksy is a well-known yet pseudo-anonymous English graffiti artist. It is be...
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The Small Magellanic Cloud
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The Scream
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Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for almost $120m Tension builds at Sotheby's auction house in New York as The Scream smashes the world record for art auctions. Ed ~ the dramatic sunset in the picture may record the 1883 eruption of the volca...
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Ring nebula
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Located in the radiant little constellation of Lyra high overhead during mid-summer you will find one of the most enchanting of all deep-sky objects, the Ring Nebula. The Ring formed largely from an expanding shell of material cast off by a star as it ages. M57 is one of the brightest a...
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North America nebula
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This image in representative colours shows a hot bed of gas, dust, and newly formed stars known as the Cygnus Wall[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0506/goldenwall_sheri...
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The Great Nebula in Orion is an immense nearby starbirth region. Glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the image, faint wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident. [url=http://antwrp.gsf...
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The Large Magellanic Cloud
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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, upper right), and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
The SMC is about 210,000 light-years and the LMC about 180,000 light-years away.
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Expand (188kb, 1024 x 768) Messier 51, The Whirlpool Galaxy Exposure: 9 seconds Date: 2 June 2006
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47 Tucanae
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Of the over 200 globular star clusters that orbit the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy, 47 Tucanae, or NGC 104, is the second brightest globular cluster, behind Omega Centauri. 47 Tuc is 20,000 light years away and can be seen near the [url=http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?f...
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Sagittarius
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Expand (13kb, 792 x 554) Expand (96kb, 1024 x 768) Constellation Sagittarius Exposure: 10 seconds Date: Thursday 28 June...
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Taurus
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Unusual gas filaments surround the galaxy NGC 1275.
NGC 1275 is the central dominant galaxy of the Perseus Cluster of Galaxies, a cluster with many member galaxies visible in this image.
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