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A tide-pool at a rocky shore at low tide Tidepools on such shores are the ideal place to find and observe littoral marine creatures like marine snail
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Young woman poses like the statue of liberty with a light bulb; Lincoln Nebraska United States of America by Joel Sartore Photography Design Pics
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Mexico
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Illustration of the Suns Habitable Zone
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Habitable zones illustration
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Uranus as seen from Miranda illustration
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Flag of the Republic of the Philippines that looks like it was hand-drawn by a child
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Illustration of the Japanese flag that looks like it was hand-drawn by a child
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On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida United Launch Alliances Delta II rocket carrying NASAs Kepler spacecraft rises th
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Habitable zones illustration The habitable zone surrounding a star or the region where temperatures would permit liquid water to exist depends on
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Nucleosynthesis conceptual illustration
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Nucleosynthesis conceptual illustration
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Gravitational and thermal forces in the Sun cutaway illustration The Sun like all stars is powered by nuclear fusion in its core as its immense ma
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Early solar system Illustration of the early solar system during its formation The Sun (upper left) formed from a collapsing nebula some 46 billion
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Four planets locked in a perfect rhythm around a nearby star (HR 8799) are destined to be pinballed around their solar system when their sun eventuall
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Asteroseismology
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Engraving showing Wrights theory of the universe
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NASAs Kepler spacecraft enclosed in a canister and protective cover leaves the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville Fla Kepler is
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Thomas Wrights explanation of the Milky Way
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Space colony computer artwork The first bases on other worlds are likely to require these sealed domed buildings to provide colonists with heat and
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Solar-powered flapping wing Artwork of the solid state aircraft concept developed for the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts by researchers at the
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Artwork illustrating the concept of warped space The fabric of space is represented as a grid in which objects of increasing mass produce increas- in
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Hot young stars in galaxy M101 Ultraviolet image showing the distribution of hot young stars within the galaxy M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy NGC 5457) Th
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Artists impression of the universe as it might appear if our eyes were sensitive to gamma rays The gamma ray sky is dominated by emmissions from exp
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Artists impression of our galaxy the Milky Way seen face-on The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing about 100000 million stars is about 10
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Artists impression of our galaxy the Milky Way seen edge-on The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing about 100000 million stars is about 10
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Supernova remnant G215-09 Chandra image
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BProfessor Geoffrey Marcyb astrophysicist holding a globe of the planet Mars Marcy is one of the worlds leading researchers into planets around
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Planetary nebula NGC 246 Spitzer Space Telescope image A planetary nebula is an expanding shell of gas around a dying star (centre) A ring of mater
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Alien landscape Artwork of the molten surface of a planet orbiting a red dwarf star A molten moon is at upper right and the red dwarf is seen on th
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Alien landscape artwork
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Planet ingestion Artwork of planetary ingestion by the HD 82943 star HD82943 is a nearby Sun- like star in the constellation Hydra Two planets have
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Planet ingestion by HD 82943 star
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Ringed planets and moons Computer artwork of a ringed planet of a red dwarf star (out of frame at left) Also seen are three of the planets moons Re
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Life of a star Computer illustration of stages in the life of a star like our own Sun The star is born (upper right) from the gravitational contrac-
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Sun reflected in a solar panel Also known as photovoltaic systems solar panels are a means of converting the suns rays into direct electrical curre
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Eris dwarf planet
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BProfessor Geoffrey Marcy bastrophysicist holding a globe of the planet Mars Marcy is one of the worlds leading researchers into planets around
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Orbit or Eris Computer graphic of the orbit (large oval) of the dwarf planet Eris The orbits of the other eight planets and Pluto are also shown Ea
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Comet fragments Artwork of three fragments of a comet passing a ring (lower left) of the gas giant planet Saturn (right) Comets are icy bodies that
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Comet impact
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Oort Cloud Artwork of the Oort cloud of cometary nuclei around the Sun with the Suns hypothetical companion star Nemesis The Oort cloud consists o
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Pluto Artists impression of what the planet Pluto might look like Pluto is the smallest coldest farthest out and most mysterious planet in the S
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Saturns rings Artwork of the rings of Saturn as seen from Saturns upper cloud layers The most visible rings extend outwards from Saturn for aroun
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Saturn with its rings at their widest angle to Earth ultraviolet HST image Saturn like Earth has a large axial tilt (it rotates on a different pla
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Saturn with its rings at their widest angle to Earth infrared HST image Saturn like Earth has a large axial tilt (it rotates on a different plane
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Aurorae on Saturn Hubble Space Telescope coloured ultraviolet image of atmospheric aurorae (bright areas) in Saturns polar regions Emissions from n
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BProfessor Geoffrey Marcyb astrophysicist holding a globe of the planet Mars Marcy is one of the worlds leading researchers into planets around
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Gas jets on Martian south pole artwork These jets consist of carbon dioxide gas emerging from solid carbon dioxide ice on the southern Martian polar
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Mars Cutaway illustration showing the interior structure of the planet Mars Mars is thought to have an inner core of molten iron (yellow) surrounde
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Venus Pleiades View of Venus (starburst effect at lower centre) seen over silhouetted trees at dawn The open star cluster of the Pleiades or Seve
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Venus Pleiades View of Venus (starburst effect at lower centre) seen over silhouetted trees The open star cluster of the Pleiades or Seven Sister
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Venus Pleiades View of Venus (at lower centre) seen over silhouetted trees at dawn The open star cluster of the Pleiades or Seven Sisters is at ce
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Venus Pleiades View of Venus (starburst effect at lower centre) seen over silhouetted trees The open star cluster of the Pleiades or Seven Sister
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Ceres Computer artwork based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of the dwarf planet Ceres (1 Ceres) Ceres has a diameter of 950 kilometres This
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Ceres artwork
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Ceres Computer artwork based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of the dwarf planet Ceres (1 Ceres) Ceres has a diameter of 950 kilometres This
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Einstein and Eddington German-born physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) at left was famous for his theories of relativity British astrophysicist
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Ceres Computer artwork based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of the dwarf planet Ceres (1 Ceres) Ceres has a diameter of 950 kilometres This
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Solar system formation
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Solar system formation
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Gegenschein in LeoCancer with tracking telescope in foreground The Gegenschein is caused by the reflection of the Suns light by dust lying in the p
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Artists impression of the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its encounter with the planet Neptune on August 24 1989 The bright object at upper right is t
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Norway Camping
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Norway Senja Two tents near Segla mountain at sunset
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Norway Senja Two tents near Segla mountain at sunset
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Illustration of the habitable zones around star types The habitable zone also known as the Goldilocks zone is the area around a star where liquid w
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Using the prolific planet hunting Kepler spacecraft astronomers have discovered 1235 candidate planets orbiting other suns since the Kepler mission
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Eddingtons comparator
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TRAPPIST-1 planetary system Computer illustration showing what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like based on available data about the plane
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TRAPPIST-1 planetary system Computer illustration showing what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like based on available data about the plane
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Greenhouse effect illustration The greenhouse effect is a process by which the Earth warms up It occurs naturally but human activities are increas
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Greenhouse effect illustration The greenhouse effect is a process by which the Earth warms up It occurs naturally but human activities are increas
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Jupiters interior Cutaway computer illustration showing the interior structure of the planet Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and t
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Interior of a red dwarf star artwork Red dwarves such as Proxima Centauri (the closest star outside the Solar System) are the most common stars in
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Illustration showing how Uranus might have got its axial tilt Uranus is odd in that it orbits the Sun tipped on its side How it got like this is not
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Nuclear fusion conceptual image
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Nearest stars to the Sun computer graphic The 30 stars nearest the Sun (centre) are found in the 20 star systems shown here The concentric circles
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Structure of Jupiter Cutaway computer illustration showing the interior structure of the planet Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and
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Structure of Jupiter Cutaway computer illustration showing the interior structure of the planet Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and
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Structure of Jupiter Cutaway computer illustration showing the interior structure of the planet Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and
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Structure of Jupiter Cutaway computer illustration showing the interior structure of the planet Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and
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Illustration of a huge gas giant planet looming beyond some of its moons one of them being Earth-like
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Kuiper Belt Object Computer illustration of a rocky body lying in the Kuiper Belt on the outer rim of the Solar System 4 billion miles from the Sun
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Suns surface at different wavelengths Computer illustration showing what the Suns surface and atmosphere look like when viewed using different wave
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Conceptual fractal illustration of nuclear fusion the process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons primarily protons and neutro
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Formation of the solar system Computer illustration showing the stages that formed the solar system From left to right The Sun formed from a collap
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Artwork of the main stages in the life of a star Stars are born (left) from the gravitational contraction of a cloud of gas Due to the contraction
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Helix nebula Optical image of the Helix nebula (NGC 7293) This nebula lies around 700 light years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius and belon
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Early solar system Computer illustration of asteroids (rocks) orbiting the Sun (centre) in the early solar system The Sun formed from a collapsing n
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Nuclear Fusion
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Alien planetary system in Orion Computer illustration of a view across the snowy surface of an alien planet towards a gas giant planet (upper centre)
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Alien planet and star cluster Composite image combining a computer illustration of a view across the rocky surface of an asteroid towards a gas giant
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Stars Computer artwork showing a combination of stars of different colours sizes and brightness The colour of a star will depend on several of its
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Peter Boyce Jill Tarter Peter Backus View of the American astronomers (from left to right) Peter Boyce Jill Tarter and Peter Backus Tarter was c
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SOLAR SYSTEM The infinite extension of space from which the Earth is encircled and called Heaven in which we see millions of stars shine All t
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Illustration from Thomas Wrights book An Original Theory of the Universe published in 1750 depicting numerous galaxies each with the Eye of Provid
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Solar sail spaceship by Jupiter and Europa (lower right a Jovian moon) artwork This theoretical vessel has a large square thin sail-like membrane
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