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A nice astronomy picture like this one every day:
Astronomy Picture of the Day ArchiveDiscover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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This isn't from the same source you provided but this is an important star
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"If Germany re-establishes her trade in the next 50 years, we shall have fought the war (WW1) in vain."
Winston Churchill interviewed by the London Times in 1919
"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years"
French marshal Ferdinand Foch on the Treaty of Versailles in 1919
"Our ideal is to round Poland off with frontiers on the Oder in the West and the Neisse in Lausatia, and to reincorporate Prussia, from the Pregel to the Spree. In this war no prisoners will be taken, there will be no room for humanitarian feelings. We shall surprise the whole world in our war with Germany."
Polish newspaper Mosarstwowiecz (1930), three years before Hitler's rise to power.
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The galaxy that ate too much and got gas
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It’s been known for a long time that galaxies are not picky eaters. In fact, they’re cannibals.
Yes, they eat each other. If a little galaxy gets too close to a big one, the gravity of the beefier of the pair will rip the littler one apart, and the contents of the loser get absorbed into the winner. Most big galaxies show evidence of this, and our own Milky Way is eating at least one galaxy right now, and has probably swallowed down dozens before it.
But we’re pikers compared to NGC 1132, a monster elliptical galaxy over 300 million light years away. In visible light it’s 20% bigger in diameter than the Milky Way, and may outmass our galaxy by a factor of ten! It’s truly gargantuan. This Hubble image reveals the enormous extent of the galaxy, but even that’s only a part of the picture; most of the mass of this galaxy is in hot X-ray emitting gas and invisible dark matter.
Have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in ‘illegal immigrants’, and add just a few more letters, it spells, ‘Go home you free-loading, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, baby-making, non-English-speaking ********* and take those other hairy-faced, sandal-wearing, bomb-making, camel-riding, goat-f*****g raghead c***s with you.?
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Dark clouds of dust, called globules, are silhouetted against nearby, bright stars. Little is known about the globules, except that they are generally associated with areas of star formation.
This picture of the nebula NGC 3603 shows globules of gas and dust; giant, gaseous pillars; young stars surrounded by debris disks; aging, massive stars; and a blue supergiant star . all various stages in star life.
The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054.
HUbbles ultra deep field with dozen of galaxies
Two galaxies swing past each other in a graceful performance choreographed by gravity. This is one of hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in our nearby universe.
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What's with everyone and their Crab Nebula lovage? ;p
I'll post some of my favourites, which are mainly star clusters and nebulae.
M50, an open cluster in Monoceros
Antares and the Rho Ophiuchi Dark Cloud, on the lower half is the over-exposed image of the red supergiant star Antares.
At the center of 30 Doradus region, the R136 star cluster.
The M45: Subaru, the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, an open cluster in Taurus.
The star forming region NGC 2170. Think stellar birth and burst: hydrogen emission nebulae, blue reflection and darkabsorption nebulae, newly formed stars and stardust all over.
NGC 7293 or Helix Nebula, located in Aquarius.
B33 or Horsehead Nebula, a dark nebula across from red emission nebula IC434, both part of a large complex that is a stellar nursery near Sigma Orionis.
Last but not least the Corona Australi, an area of young star formation.
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"Bowie could appear on TV, denounce mass immigration, propose a return to 'blood and soil',
then lead us in a national rendition of Magic Dance to bring us all together"
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My favorite constellation, Orion and its nebula..
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Wow! Very clear view of Jupiters atmosphere! Thanks for posting this
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Supernova:
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