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Fun items you've found in the sky/space. |
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 | Crux (Latin: cross), commonly known as the Southern Cross (Crux Australis, in contrast to the Northern Cross), is the smallest of the 88 modern constellations |  | 01/24/2008 | 241 | 
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 | Alien Markings in deep space - you will need to switch to sky first |  | 12/09/2007 | 1,512 |
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 | Comet C/2001 RX14 racing through the sky - You will need to switch to sky first | | 12/07/2007 | 717 |
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 | Two galaxies collide, and the results are phenomenal. | | 12/04/2007 | 1,870 |
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 | Connecting 2 galaxies..
More info here:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2001/02 | | 12/04/2007 | 764 |
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 | Outburst of Comet 17p holmes.
Between October 23–24, 2007, Comet Holmes grew much brighter,
going from magnitude 17 to magnitude 2.5 in just a few hours.
It became easily visible to the naked eye.
October 25 17P/Holmes appeared as the third brightest "star" in that constellation.
This is about the position right now. | | 11/21/2007 | 264 |
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 | CRL2688, a protoplanetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus | | 10/25/2007 | 695 |
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 | This is what we can see from our own Milky Way. | | 10/23/2007 | 757 |
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 | Messier 13 (M13, NGC 6205), also called the 'Great globular cluster in Hercules', is one of the most prominent and best known globulars of the Northern celestial hemisphere. | | 10/23/2007 | 349 |
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 | The North America Nebula (NGC 7000) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb | | 10/23/2007 | 417 |
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 | It's one of the most beautiful Star Clusters
Located in the Small Magellanic Cloud | | 10/22/2007 | 420 |
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 | The Pillars of Creation
Is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas and plasma. It is the first stage of a star's cycle. |  | 10/22/2007 | 1,262 |
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 | The Whirlpool Galaxy M51
located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici. | | 10/22/2007 | 332 |
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 | Light Echoes From Red Supergiant Star in Monocerotis V838 | | 10/22/2007 | 379 |
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 | The Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392), also known as the Clownface Nebula, A planetary nebula. | | 10/20/2007 | 574 |
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 | The beautiful Andromeda galaxy in Google Sky.
Just 2,5 mio lightyears distance from earth.
You can see it without a telescope... | | 10/19/2007 | 932 |
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 | Een schaduw van een satelliet??
A shadow of a satellite?
|  | 10/15/2007 | 1,665 |
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 | Intricate wisps of glowing gas float amid a myriad of stars in this image of the supernova remnant called N132D in the nearby galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby neighbor galaxy of our own Milky Way. The ejected material shows that roughly 3,000 years have passed since the supernova blast... | | 09/22/2007 | 579 |
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 | I found this strange image in Google Sky. | | 09/07/2007 | 1,400 |
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 | Something is missing here. | | 09/06/2007 | 356 |
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 | The same way there's image errors on Google Earth, there are some in the sky. | | 09/06/2007 | 423 |
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 | Here you see an enormous black hole in the sky. Ironically enough, it isn't black. | | 09/06/2007 | 1,413 |
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 | Like the North and South pole on Earth, the pole in Google Sky also has that similar symmetrical pattern. | | 09/06/2007 | 248 |
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 | I found this immage and wonder if it's the mirror inside the Hubble telescope that appeared while photo was taken. | | 09/06/2007 | 468 |
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 | Nice view of Stella Polaris, Polaris or Northern Star.
The surrounding looks like a Chrysanthemum fire work. You don't see it from Earth.
Polaris (α UMi / α Ursae Minoris / Alpha Ursae Minoris), more commonly known as The North Star or simply North Star, is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor. It is very close to the north celestial pole (42′... | | 09/06/2007 | 225 |
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