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The moon looks beautiful tonight

M83: A Barred Spiral Galaxy - May 25th, 1998.

"M83 is a bright spiral galaxy that can be found with a small telescope in the constellation of Hydra. M83 is a member of the Centaurus group of galaxies, a nearby group dominated by the massive galaxy Centaurus A. It takes light about 15 million years to reach us from M83. The spiral arms are given a blue colour by the many bright young stars that have recently formed there. Dark dust lanes are also visible. Stars and gas in the spiral arms seem to be responding to much more mass than is visible here, implying that galaxies are predominantly composed of some sort of dark matter. Finding the nature of this dark matter remains one of the great challenges of modern science."

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Crescent Saturn

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Jupiter © NASA Juno 2019

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Comet at Dunstanburgh Castle

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Mars 2026 © NASA Psyche Mission

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Supermoon. Temple of Poseidon, near Athens, Greece. July 3, 2023, by Alkis Konstantinidis

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Nights in the Lavender Fields of Valensole, France

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Artemis II 2026, NASA - Moon and crescent Earth. Being there faaar from the humans just for a very tiny, smally while and missing the spaceship back by one tiny, smally minute, oopsy.