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ikenbot: Ritchey-Chreitien Telescope and the Milky Way Milky Way and meteor streak above the dome of the 32” Ritchey-Chreitien telescope at Appalachian State University’s Dark Sky Observatory.

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n-a-s-a: M64: The Sleeping Beauty Galaxy Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI), S. Smartt (IoA) & D. Richstone (U. Michigan) et al. 

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mothernaturenetwork: Photo of the day: Stunning coronal mass ejection erupts from SunA long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s corona erupts out into space on Aug. 31. Traveling at over 900 miles per second, the coronal mass ejection did not travel directly toward Earth, but it did connect with Earth’s magnetosphere, causing auroras to appear in the night sky on Sept. 3.

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framesandflames: Enceladus, Raw. Raw images from the Cassini orbiter show Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon. Shown are the geysers at the south pole which erupt water ice out into space. Only alterations I made to the raw files was some darkening of overexposed frames. Image credt: NASA/JPL

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itsjohnsen: Flight over Manhattan, 1937. NY Times

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a-l-ancien-regime: Venus asking Vulcan  weapons  for Aeneas Boucher François (1703-1770) 1732 oil on canvas Paris, musée du Louvre

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