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18Few exoplanets have been imaged, and the images are very basic. However, artists can use the available data to make pictures to give us ideas about what the planets might be like. Adam Makarenko takes it a step further and creates models. [Image: Adam Makarenko]Gliese 876 was the first red dwarf found to have a planet, and its planet Gliese 876b was also the first exoplanet discovered by the Keck Observatory. Gliese 876b is one of the models from the Keck Observatory's Exoplanet Imaginarium. Model of Exoplanet Gliese 876b
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19A collaborative painting from Aboriginal Yamaji Artists from Western Australia [left} and a collaborative quilt from South African indigenous artists [right] exhibited at the Shared Sky exhibition. [Left: © 2014 Yamaji Art Centre. Right: © 2014 Bethesda Foundation.]The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the world's largest telescope array. It's located on two sites, one in Australia and the other in South Africa. Shared Sky grew out a vision to bring together Aboriginal Australian and South African artists in a collaborative exhibition. Indigenous Art and the Square Kilometre Array
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20Zinnia's grown on the International Space Station (ISS) were the first flowers grown in space. [Image credit: NASA]In November 2015 on the ISS Kjell Lindgren activated the Veggie system containing zinnia seeds. But the astronauts didn't just rely on the hardware, and the activity wasn't just about plant responses to microgravity. If astronauts are to undertake deep space missions, they need to learn how to be gardeners. The photo was taken in January 2016. First Flowers Grown in Space
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Very nice. Wish mine would look that good on Earth.
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21Here is the place where time begins, the Royal Observatory Greenwich, England. The Prime Meridian (0° longitude) goes through Greenwich.The observatory was founded in 1675 by King Charles II. In 1884 the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC voted to adopt the Greenwich meridian as the international Prime Meridian. The Royal Observatory Greenwich in the snow
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22This series of five photos shows the path of the low December sun at Lulworth Cove on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset, England just before the December solstice in 2015. Chris Kotsiopoulos braved “rough and slippery terrain, cows blocking the narrow footpath and three intense rain storms” to record these Sun positions. In 2019 the December solstice occurred at 04.19 UTC on the 22nd. (UTC = Greenwich Mean Time) This was when the Sun is directly above the Tropic of Capricorn. The Sun's path near the winter solstice
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What a beautiful scene. Time lapse is amazing.
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23There is a sky phenomenon that looks like an aurora, but isn't one. Skywatchers named it “Steve” meaning something unknown. Aurora-watchers have been seeing Steve for centuries, but it's only recently been studied. It's even got a backronym: Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement. It's a very narrow purple arc extending for hundreds or thousands of miles, aligned east–west. Although Steve is accompanied by aurorae, the phenomenon itself is not, as is an aurora, caused y charged particles from the Sun interacting with Earth's atmosphere. Steve's mysterious purple arc
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24The green comet – 46P Wirtanen – made a close approach to Earth in December 2018. It was nicknamed “the Christmas Comet”.Tommy Eliassen photographed the comet in a starry sky above a magnificent pine tree covered in snow in Bleikvassli, Norway. The image was shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019. The Christmas Comet
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25![[Linked Image]](https://previews.123rf.com/images/ngaga35/ngaga351712/ngaga35171200144/91022861-merry-christmas-in-different-languages-in-the-shape-of-christmas-three-celebration-word-tag-cloud-gr.jpg)
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