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Aurora archives. 

Finland 2013-2015. 

by Tiina Törmänen | web | FB | IG |  

Itty bitty Mercury transits the Sun. It was a terribly cloudy morning with really poor seeing, but managed to snap this. 

by  運開さん

Centaurus A. Same object. Different wavelengths.

It’s scary to think most of our universe is invisible to us

Juno: Jupiter and the Galilean moons from 10.9 million km away, June 21st 2016. The probe will enter orbit around Jupiter on July 4th. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Object Names: NGC 6888, The Crecent Nebula

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: NASA

Time And Space

Anticrepuscular rays are spectacular optical phenomena that are quite rare and they require the viewer to have his or her back to the sun or sunset point. They are columns of sunlit air streaming through gaps in clouds. Yet while the former seem to converge from the sun, anticrepuscular rays converge toward the antisolar point, the point in the sky directly opposite the sun, creating some stunning effects. (Source) 

Multi-colored specimen of Cerussite crystals in a matrix seam

From the Redburn Mine, Rookhope District, Weardale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England.