Event Horizon - Astronomical and Terrestrial Images

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Verdant Country8 viewsSarah and Mike's house is largely concealed from the street by the trees and shrubs surrounding it.
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Privacy8 viewsAs you get closer the house emerges a little from the vegetation, but still is quite secluded.
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Fishy Welcome8 viewsThis cute little fish at the driveway entrance radiates a joyous greeting to visitors.
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Seattle Gas Works8 viewsThe Seattle Gas LIght company built this plant in 1906 and operated it until 1956, using coal and oil gasification technology..
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NGC 3521, "flocculent" spiral galaxy in Leo8 viewsNGC 3521 is termed a "flocculent" spiral galaxy because it has patches or clumps of stars breaking up the continuity of the spiral arms. Self-propagating star formation is thought to account for the patchiness. The galaxy lies about 26 million light-years away from us.
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Black Drop Effect7 viewsFirst Contact plus 11 minutes. Venus appears to be glued to the rim of the Sun's disk. This is known as the "Black Drop Effect."
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First Contact plus 28 minutes7 viewsVenus is well on its way across the Sun's disk.
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My Setup on the Upper Pads7 viewsI set up where I could get a good view of the Sun all the way from first contact to sunset.
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Messier 13 - Hercules Globular Cluster7 views145 light-years in diameter, consisting of several hundred thousand stars, this is the most famous globular cluster in the Northern Hemisphere and is about 22,000 miles from Earth.
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NGC 6946 - The Fireworks Galaxy7 viewsA face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Cepheus, near its border with Cygnus, about 1/3 to 1/2 as big as the Milky Way, but with a high rate of star formation, making it a spectacular starburst galaxy. About 25 million light-years from Earth and 40,000 light-years in diameter.
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NGC 6946 - Fireworks Galaxy and Friends7 viewsAn alternate view of the Fireworks Galaxy featuring a neighbor, the open star cluster NGC 6939, near the lower edge of the image.
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En route7 viewsSandra and Jerry Floyd, waiting in the airport for our flight to Turkey on March 22, 2006.
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