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NGC 6823: Cloud Sculpting Star Cluster : Star cluster NGC 6823 is slowly turning gas clouds into stars. The center of the open cluster, visible on the upper right, formed only about two million years ago and is dominated in brightness by a host of bright young blue stars. Some outer parts of the cluster, visible in the featured images center as the stars and pillars of emission nebula NGC 6820, contain even younger stars. The huge pillars of gas and dust likely get their elongated shape by erosion from hot radiation emitted from the brightest cluster stars. Striking dark globules of gas and dust are also visible across the upper left of the featured image. Open star cluster NGC 6823 spans about 50 light years and lies about 6000 light years away toward the constellation of the Fox . via NASA
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Jupiters moon Io in true color
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Sun, THERMONUCLEAR ART
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An aurora like an explosion over Donnelly Creek, Alaska Photographed by NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center
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The California Nebula
Who Goes There? - 5 Shot Vertical Panorama at Arches Nat'l Park, Utah
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NGC 6302- The Butterfly Nebula
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Gorgeous time-lapse picture during the 2010 Equinox with the Sun directly overhead. The equatorial location allows the photographer to show both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres of the sky together.
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