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Islands of Four Mountains from Above

June 23, 2010

Our Earth is covered by volcanoes. Volcanoes are breaks in the Earth’s cool surface where hot liquid rock from the [...]

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Falcon 9 Launches to Orbit

June 9, 2010

A new rocket, the Falcon 9, was launched successfully from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, last week. The Falcon 9, standing [...]

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Milky Way Over Ancient Ghost Panel

May 20, 2010

Long before Stonehenge was built, well before the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, ancient artists painted life-sized figures on canyon [...]

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Mars in a Manger

May 1, 2010

At opposition in late January, Mars shone very brightly in planet Earth’s night sky, among the stars of the constellation [...]

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The Belt of Venus over the Valley of the Moon

April 5, 2010

Although you’ve surely seen it, you might not have noticed it. During a cloudless twilight, just before sunrise or after [...]

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Moonset Over Pleasant Bay

March 30, 2010

It was a sky for the imagination. In the early evening last week, the sky illuminating the unaided eye was [...]

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Equinox + 1

March 22, 2010

Twice a year, at the Spring and Fall equinox, the Sun rises due east. In an emphatic demonstration of this [...]

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Lunar Eclipse, 2007 March 3rd.

March 8, 2010

Photo slideshow of the lunar eclipse as seen near hiking area* atop Skyline Drive; Oakland/Ringwood border, northern New Jersey, USA. [...]

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The International Space Station from Above

March 4, 2010

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth. The ISS is so large [...]

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Exceptional Rocket Waves Destroy Sun Dog

February 24, 2010

What created those rocket waves, and why did they destroy that sun dog? Close inspection of the above image shows [...]

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Night Launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

February 10, 2010

Sometimes, the space shuttle launches at night. Pictured above, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off in yesterday’s early morning hours [...]

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