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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 shortlist

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 shortlist http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2016/jul/27/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2016-shortlist-in-pictures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress

Stephen Hawking

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at […]

‘Andromeda Rising over the Alps’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150817.html via #NASA_APP

‘Shadow of Surveyor 1 on the Moon’ image

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1477.html via #NASA_APP

‘Polaris and Comet Lovejoy’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150602.html via #NASA_APP

‘Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150531.html via #NASA_APP

‘Hubble Peers into the Most Crowded Place in the Milky Way’ image

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/hubble-peers-into-the-most-crowded-place-in-the-milky-way via #NASA_APP

‘Globular Star Cluster 47 Tuc’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150519.html via #NASA_APP

Dwarf Planet http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150514.html

‘http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150514.html’: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150514.html via #NASA_APP

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150509.html

‘http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150509.html’: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150509.html via #NASA_APP

‘A Sky View of Earth From Suomi NPP’ image

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp via #NASA_APP

‘Total Solar Eclipse over Svalbard’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150420.html via #NASA_APP

‘Ring Galaxy AM 0644 741 from Hubble’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150419.html via #NASA_APP

‘White Dwarf May Have Shredded Passing Planet’ image

http://www.nasa.gov/content/white-dwarf-may-have-shredded-passing-planet-0 via #NASA_APP

‘Shadow of a Martian Robot’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150329.html via #NASA_APP

‘Naked Eye Nova Sagittarii 2015 No 2’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150325.html via #NASA_APP

‘Earths Changing Vista’s’ image

http://www.nasa.gov/content/earths-changing-vistas via #NASA_APP

‘Atlas V Launches MMS’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150323.html via #NASA_APP

‘A Double Eclipse of the Sun’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150322.html via #NASA_APP

‘Northern Equinox Eclipse’ image

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap150321.html via #NASA_APP

‘Vanguard Satellite, 1958’ image

When this satellite was launched, I was nine years old. It was the day of my mother’s birthday. She turned 42 on that day. http://www.nasa.gov/content/vanguard-satellite-1958 via #NASA_APP

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