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Day 12 of the 2017 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Infrared Horsehead Nebula. An infrared view of turbulent waves of dust and gas in the constellation of Orion, some 1,300 light-years away. https://t.co/fTiV396gDk

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2017-12-13

in 1871, a total solar eclipse occurred. Here astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer waits to observe the eclipse in India.

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2017-12-12

in 2001, sodium was detected in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet by the Space Telescope. The planetary atmosphere of HD 209458b was the first outside our solar system to be measured. This is a size comparison with Jupiter https://t.co/f7xkPt3SPX

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2017-11-28

An aerial view of the inner section of the Cross in 1969

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2017-11-09

The Carina Nebula! 🌌✨💫
Credit: Hubble Space Telescope

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2017-11-07

Over the last six months my telescope has spent 400 hours collecting light from the stars. Here's what it saw:

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2017-10-17

Telescope fish...#inktober2017

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2017-10-04

This guy wears glasses under his glasses while looking through a telescope. Can't get more meta than that.

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2017-09-25

This week's is all about radio telescopes! It's thanks to this astonishing tech that we know so much about our universe! 🔭😸

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2017-08-09

The Supermoon in a radio telescope. © imgur https://t.co/5aW4dp76vK

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2017-08-07

Young girl looking through a telescope (possibly 40") during a U.S. Naval Observatory tour, early 20thC https://t.co/t4DBGyNI9f

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2017-07-23

Col Mackenzie with peon Kistnaji with telescope and Jain and Telugu pundits. Watercolour based on Thomas Hickey oil painting c. 820s

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2017-06-27

Bright of a Type Ia erupts in NGC 5643 in Lupus - via: Sky & Telescope https://t.co/aEyIw9hp1I

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2017-05-31

Astrophysicist Alex Parker recreated Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night using 100 different images from the Hubble Space telescope.

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2017-05-21

Prince Stutterbug's eye looks like a camera or a telescope to me!

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2017-05-20

Each design has been inspired by the vivid colours and images from the Hubble telescope.

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2017-05-10

Learn more about the collection of in our upcoming on our website now: https://t.co/UGJcooZNIw

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2017-03-23