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an image of the moon with names on it
APOD: 2016 October 12 - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
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two stars in the middle of a space filled with water and lightening up pink
Lens Perspectives
"The sword of orion"
an image of a star cluster in the sky with stars all around it and some bright colors
APOD: 2016 November 6 - Starburst Cluster in NGC 3603
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an image of a star cluster in the sky with many stars and bright colors on it
APOD: October 24, 1996 - Starbirth in the Lagoon Nebula
October 24, 1996: Starbirth in the Lagoon Nebula - Credit and Copyright: G. Bernstein (U. Mich.), Big Throughput Camera, 4-m Blanco Telescope, CTIO, Chile - Explanation: Stars are forming even today in the Lagoon Nebula. This bright nebula is visible in the constellation of Sagittarius with binoculars. The above photo is the result of a new sensitive camera being attached to one of the world's largest telescopes. More...
an image of a very large star in the middle of some space with stars all around it
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Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Image Credit Copyright: César Blanco González
an image of a very large object in the sky
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The Tadpole Galaxy (also known as UGC 10214 or Arp 188) is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located about 420 million light-years away toward the northern constellation Draco. Its most dramatic features are an incredibly long trail of stars and massive, bright blue star clusters, reflecting the essence of our dynamic, restless and violent Universe. - Credit: NASA, Hubble, Mehdi Bozzo-Rey
an image of some very pretty stars in the night sky with blue and white colors
Telescopes For Astronomy - Telescopes / Binoculars, Telescopes & Optics: Electronics
The Pleiades M45 A Cluster #Space #Stars #Astronomy
an image of a spiral galaxy in the night sky
Preaching to Infinity
Looking like a spiders web swirled into a spiral, the galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this image from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope. Seen in infrared light, the faint starlight gives way to the glowing bright patterns of dust found throughout the galaxys disk.
an image of a green and pink galaxy
Triangulum Galaxy Wallpaper
Triangulum Galaxy Wallpaper by sjrankin, via Flickr
an image of the earth with water and fresh water on it's side, as well as some other things
APOD: 2016 September 11 - All the Water on Planet Earth
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the words apod 2016 october 3 - explore rosettas comet on a purple background
APOD: 2016 October 10 - The Winds of Earth
APOD: 2016 October 10 - The Winds of Earth
an image of some kind of cloud in the sky with bright light coming from it
APOD: 2016 October 14 - Herschel's Orion
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an image of some very pretty stars in the sky
APOD: 2016 October 19 - M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster
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an image of a very large and colorful object in the sky with stars around it
APOD: 2016 November 11 - NGC 7822 in Cepheus
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two different views of the same moon, each with its own caption and description
APOD: 2016 November 13 - Super Moon vs Micro Moon
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