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SPD-SOHO-20031202c2eit304
Courtesy Photo | NASA | Date: 08.28.2009CME blast -- A large coronal mass ejection ejects a cloud of particles into space on 2 December 2003. In this composite an EIT 304 image of the sun from about the same time has been appropriately scaled and superimposed on a LASCO C2 image where a red occulting disk can be seen extending around the Sun. This LASCO... View Image
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Hubble Images a Swarm of Ancient Stars
Courtesy Photo | NASA | Date: 09.22.2009*Description*: This stellar swarm is M80 (NGC 6093), one of the densest of the 147 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. Located about 28,000 light-years from Earth, M80 contains hundreds of thousands of stars, all held together by their mutual gravitational attraction. Globular clusters are... View Image
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Dust Storm over Southern Asia: Image of the Day
Courtesy Photo | NASA | Date: 07.01.2011A new and massive dust storm (light brown) erupted out of the Sistan Basin straddling the border between Iran and Afghanistan on April 29, 2004. The dust blew southward and spread out over a wide area, covering most of southern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. (The borders between those countries are traced here in... View Image
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EARTH SKY - (70mm Hasselblad)
Courtesy Photo | NASA | Date: 05.18.2011GEMINI - TITAN 5 08/21/1965 - 08/29/1965 NASA Identifier: S65-45766 View Image
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SPD-SOHO-eit002
Courtesy Photo | NASA | Date: 08.28.2009An EIT 304Å image captures a pair of curving erupting prominences on 28 June 2000 -- Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun's hot, thin corona. At times, they can erupt, escaping the Sun's atmosphere. Emission in this spectral line shows the upper chromosphere at a temperature... View Image
