National Geographic Award winning Photo : Aerial Photograph
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Bullseye! A bright flare erupts from the sun’s surface as seen straight-on by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft.
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A canyon of fire remains behind as an arc of solar material blasts off from the sun’s surface and punches through the solar atmosphere.
The 200,000-mile-long (321,000-kilometers-long) string of charged particles was fired from the sun by a clash of powerful magnetic field loops. As the loops pulled apart, they lofted the filament through the solar atmosphere, where temperatures reach 1.8 million°F (1 million°C). (Learn about the sun’s magnetic field.)
The eruption’s buildup took place over two days from October 29 to October 30, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Laboratory. (Related: “Sun’s Magnetic Field to Reverse: What It Means.”)
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Resembling a modern-day Stonehenge, an abandoned brick factory in Sztutowo, Poland, is circled by stars in this striking September 7 photograph submitted to National Geographic’s Your Shot.
The North Star and its companions hang high above the leftmost tower, at the center of the circle.
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The Bubble Nebula seems to float upward, borne aloft by a froth of surrounding stars, in this photograph submitted October 21 to National Geographic’s Your Shot.
The nebula is actually a bubble of gas flowing outward from a powerful young star some 15 times more massive than the sun. The bubble sits embedded within a cloud of interstellar gas.
The view seen here was captured over ten nights of viewing time from a backyard in Fremont, Michigan.
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Northern lights dance above Lake Nydala in Sweden in this unearthly view of the nighttime sky, taken October 15.
Auroras form regularly in northern latitudes, where Earth’s magnetic field dips and allows solar particles to interact with the upper atmosphere. (See more pictures of the northern lights.)
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Ancient City Seen From Space
Once the home of the legendary hero Gilgamesh, the ancient city of Uruk reappears in this overhead view captured by NASA’s Terra orbiting spacecraft.
The large yellow area in the upper right of the picture, Uruk was once the largest city in the world, with about 50,000 inhabitants around 2,900 B.C.
The city was abandoned after the Euphrates River channel it guarded changed course, and was empty by 500 A.D. Archaeologists rediscovered the city in 1848
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@PC, awesome pics…:)
chinzzz wrote:
@PC, awesome pics…:)
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Rio Carnival,
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A “spectacular” new species of leaf-tailed gecko sits on a tree in Cape Melville’s rain forest
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Pockets of rain forest dot the boulder fields of the mountain range on Cape Melville, which Hoskin calls a “magical little place.”
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Photograph by Orsolya Haarberg
A jagged porthole in Engabreen glacier frames a view of a nearby peak.
One in five sunlike stars harbors an Earth-size world that orbits in a “habitable zone” friendly to oceans and perhaps life, a new study suggests
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Shown are the relative sizes of all of the habitable-zone planets discovered to date alongside Earth. Left to right: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists’ renditions).
Image by NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech
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2013 Photo contest entry,
last year’s winner,
Lorenzo Menendez award winning photo ,
A hawaiian green sea turtle swims i very shallow water at a beach on the south side of Kauai
@PC, awesome pics bro:)
photos of Everest expedition,
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Despite totally sleepless nights, unbearable cold, and a potential stomach virus, things are really awesome here. That’s one of the weird things about the big mountains. It hurts like crazy but the views are worth it.
Base Camp at Ama Dablam is usually a nice grass field and the hike to Camp 1 is usually a long, but dry, hike in tennis shoes. Not this year. This year it’s deep snow. Terrible for climbing, but awesome for photos.
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Active Volcano in Antarctic ……
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Karen Nyberg heads back to Earth after a five-month mission in space, November 10
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The Grand Canyon, as seen from space on October 19
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Dusk settles on the Himilayas, November 4
photo location: Denver, Colorado
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Mural,
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