Space Images

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A sun halo

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Image Credit: David Rojas

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This reminded me of a picture I took 5/15/2022. Not as dramatic, but in keeping with theme of a plane in front of a celestial event.

 

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This reminded me of a picture I took 5/15/2022. Not as dramatic, but in keeping with theme of a plane in front of a celestial event.

Nice shot!

Were you waiting for that just-right moment?

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Nice shot!

Were you waiting for that just-right moment?

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I didn't expect the plane. I was just setting up for pictures of the eclipse. When I saw the first plane fly in front of the moon I knew it was a departure from MSP airport, and that successive departures would follow the same flight path. Two minutes later I took this picture.

 

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Jupiter's moons:

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A meteor burning through the atmosphere with the Andromeda Galaxy in the background:





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Image credit: Jose Pedrero / NASA

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Planet rotations in the solar system



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Kepler's drawings of the sun




Date: ~1607

There were no telescopes for his observations. He used a pinhole camera instead.



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The brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected:

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