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Deepscape at Yacoraite
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Title: Long exposure of winter stars over the farafer gate
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Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant
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In Wolf's Cave
The mysterious blue reflection nebula found in catalogs as VdB 152 or Ced 201 really is very faint.
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Milky Way over Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent
To see the feathered serpent descend the Mayan pyramid requires exquisite timing
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Messier 2
After the Crab Nebula, M1, this giant star cluster is the second entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous list of things that are not comets.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Across Corona Australis
Cosmic dust clouds are draped across a rich field of stars in this broad telescopic panorama near the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. And almost every spot in this glittering jewel-box of an image from the Hubble Space Telescope is a star.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Ancients of Sea and Sky
They may look like round rocks, but they're alive.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Six Planets from Yosemite
The five naked-eye planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, have been seen since ancient times to wander the night skies of planet Earth.
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