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D.H. Lawrence, from "The Plumbed Serpent" in The Complete Works

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Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun : This was a very unusual type of solar eclipse. Typically, it is the Earth’s Moon that eclipses the Sun. In 2012, though, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned with the Sun. Eventually the alignment became perfect and the phase of Venus dropped to zero. The dark spot of Venus crossed our parent star. The situation could technically be labeled a Venusian annular eclipse with an extraordinarily large ring of fire. Pictured here during the occultation, the Sun was imaged in three colors of ultraviolet light by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, with the dark region toward the right corresponding to a coronal hole. Hours later, as Venus continued in its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again. The next Venusian transit across the Sun will occur in 2117. via NASA

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marblee / autumn16

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PLUTO (bottom image: lower right) AND ITS MOON, CHARON (top image, bottom image: upper left)

enhanced color images via NEW HORIZONS

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little sunny bite / s/s15

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ngc7000 by telemaq76 Via Flickr: la nebuleuse de l amerique du nord, ngc 7000 72 poses de 2 minutes +dark,flats, offset .

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marblee / autumn16

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Saturn in true color.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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MOON MOSAIC — A gorgeous image of the Moon from Noel Carboni via NASA: “No single exposure can easily capture faint stars along with the subtle colors of the Moon. But this dramatic composite view highlights both. The mosaic digitally stitches together fifteen carefully exposed high resolution images of a bright, gibbous Moon and a representative background star field. The fascinating color differences along the lunar surface are real, though highly exaggerated, corresponding to regions with different chemical compositions.” (NASA)

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Total Solareclipse - 2015 by B_Olsen on Flickr.

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