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Planet Earth at Blue Hour
Nature photographers and other fans of planet Earth always look forward to the blue hour.
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Da Vinci Rise
An old Moon rose this morning, its waning sunlit crescent shining just above the eastern horizon before sunrise.
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Atlas at Dawn
This single, 251-second long exposure follows the early flight of an Atlas V rocket on August 8.
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Chandrayaan 2 Launch
On July 22nd this GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) MkIII rocket vanished from sight into a cloud bank an instant after this dramatic snapshot was taken.
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Zodiacal Road
What's that strange light down the road?
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Sunset Analemma
The Sun reaches the northernmost declination in its yearly journey through planet Earth's sky.
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A Triangular Shadow of a Large Volcano
Why does the shadow of this volcano look like a triangle?
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Good Morning Leonid
On November 17, just an hour before sunrise, this bright and colorful meteor flashed through clear predawn skies.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Window Seat over Hudson Bay
On the August 18 night flight from San Francisco to Zurich, a window seat offered this tantalizing view when curtains of light draped a colorful glow across the sky over Hudson Bay.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Red Planet, Red Moon, and Mars
Mars is also known as The Red Planet, often seen with a reddish tinge in dark night skies.
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