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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Milky Way over Foster Bridge
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Saturn from Cassini on February 27
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photos of the april 2010 volcanic eruptions in eyjafjallajokull, iceland, which produced a dirty thunderstorm. the phenomenon is yet to be explained by science, as the source of the lightning (or the specific mechanism by which particles of differing charges are separated in the ash cloud) continues to be debated.
(click pic or link for credit x, x, x, x, x, x. see also: sakurajima and puyehue eruptions for more examples of dirty lightning)
The Lores Nebula
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I have always wondered if they were on top of it ?
I don’t know who the Poles are. I’m assuming that they’re people that live around the North Pole and South Pole.
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