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Dallas, October 2022665 viewsDallas, October 2022
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Sharpless2-275 - The Rosette Nebula665 viewsHII region in the constellation Monoceros; distance 5,200 light-years from Earth. Open cluster NGC2244, in the doughnut hole, provides the energy that makes the nebula glow.
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Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy664 viewsFace-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. A colossus among galaxies, 170,000 light-years across (Milky Way is 105,700), with a trillion stars. Distance - approx. 25 million light-years from Earth.
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Baths of Skolastikia664 viewsOriginally built in the first century AD by Varius, these baths were renamed after a Christian woman who undertook their restoration in the 4th century. They were the largest baths in Ephesus.
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Agora, Sebasteion and Village of Geyre664 viewsThe village of Geyre, relocated 2 km to the west after excavations began in 1966, is seen in the background.
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Totality minus 10 minutes664 viewsC2 - 9 min 29 sec
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The last glimmer664 viewsAbout 30 seconds before Second Contact.
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Column, View near Base664 viewsIt took three shots to capture this column in adequate detail. This is the section nearest the base. I don't know the identity of the figure depicted here; my guess is that it's a public official performing a sacrifice to Artemis.
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Baths and Propylaeum664 viewsThe Propylaeum was a wrestling school or gymnasium. See the description on the placard in the next picture.
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Council Hall Interior Detail664 viewsThe Imperial Council building consists of three main rooms, each with its own dome. The chamber where the Coiuncil held its deliberations was called the Kubbealti.
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Firuz Ağa Mosque664 viewsBuilt around 1491 by Firuz Ağa, chief treasurer of Sultan Bayezid II. Located very close to Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, and Topkapi Palace.
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What would you call this piece?664 viewsThere was nothing to indicate what the vessel suspended from the elephant tusk was intended to contain. Very imaginative, and very much unacceptable if it were made today, but in the nineteenth century nobody worried about elephants becoming extinct.
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