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the heavens provide quite a canvas for artwork.
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7The Japan space agency JAXA provided this artist's impression of Hayabusa2 (“Peregrine Falcon”) at the asteroid Ryugu. The spacecraft has had a busy six years. It's been to an asteroid, studied it, taken samples, and a few days ago brought the samples back to Earth.Asteroids are of interest because they're original celestial bodies that can tell us about the origin of the Solar System. In addition, some of them are potential dangers to Earth. Hayabusa2 at Ryugu
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8Joe Randall captured a skyscape much closer to home than a turbulent nebula light years away. These are storm clouds that brought a summer lightning storm to Colorado Springs in Colorado, USA.Lightning is an electrical discharge that's hotter than the Sun, and it creates a supersonic shockwave. Boom! That's thunder. This photo isn't a lucky snap of the storm, but was created from a series of 5 dozen stacked images. Lightning over Colorado
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9Mark Polsen's Tranquility Base was the overall winner of the 2020 astrophotography competition of the Central West Astronomical Society of Australia, the “David Malin Awards”. Malin himself, astronomer and renowned astrophotographer, judged the photographs. The citation for the photo read: "Mark Polsen's Tranquillity Base has it all, perfect setting, under a beautiful sky with the moon and Venus peeping through the trees. The delicate sky and horizon colours of twilight are mirrored in the water, behind the trees." Tranquility Base
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10From the Hubble Legacy Archive comes Wings of a Butterfly Nebula (M2-9). A dying sunlike star has sloughed off its gaseous disk which has taken a bipolar appearance. [Processing: Judy Schmidt]When sunlike stars run out of nuclear fuel, they collapse into white dwarfs. Over a period of time they also lose their outer envelopes, creating what's called a planetary nebula. These come in all kinds of shapes and colors. Wings of a Butterfly Nebula
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11Patrick Cullis caught a Geminid Fireball over the Flatirons of Boulder, Colorado, USA in December 2012.The December Geminid meteor shower is a splendid one. The meteors may be of different colors and often produce these exceptionally bright ones called fireballs. The 2020 shower is expected to peak on the night of December 13/14. Geminid Fireball
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12Terry Robison's Starburst Galaxy in Sculptor was shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2020. Caroline Herschel discovered the galaxy in 1783, but the fuzzy blob she saw wouldn't match this image obtained from 34 hours of exposure. The Sculptor Galaxy is catalogued as NGC 253. Located in the southern constellation Sculptor, it's is one of the brightest spiral galaxies we can see. It's currently undergoing intense star formation. Starburst Galaxy in Sculptor
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13Robert Oliver's A Giant's Star Trail was shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014. The star trails were captured over the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. Several images were used to create the photograph. (Click on the photo to get the best effect.)As the Earth rotates, stars appear to move in concentric circles centered on the pole star Polaris. The Giant's Causeway is made up of thousands of interlocking basalt columns, most of them hexagonal. Legend has it that it was built by a giant to cross the sea to get at his rival. Geology has it that it was formed 50-60 million years ago during a volcanic eruption. A Giant's Star Trail
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14Frederic Church was a 19th-century American landscape painter. In the Catskills in 1860 he painted a breathtaking string of fireball meteors in an Earth-grazing meteor procession. This was probably the event referred to in Walt Whitman's poem “Year of Meteors”.An Earth-grazing meteor occurs when a meteor's trajectory takes it through the atmosphere and back out into space, not hitting the ground. A meteor procession is a very rare sight. It happens when a meteor breaks up as it enters the atmosphere, creating multiple meteors in nearly identical paths. Meteor of 1860
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