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Great photos of lightning from The Big Picture:

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For some reason, referrals from image searches on “Jupiter” account for a bunch of traffic here (well, I suppose “bunch” is a relative term…) so, in the spirit of pleasing my readers (and myself) here are some more way cool astronomical shots. (If you got here through a Google search for astronomical imagery, let me know in the comments!)

The Giver of life, mother of us all… no, not TV. The Sun.

The first six images are all from my favorite photo blog, The Big Picture at the Boston Globe.








This is a photo of a sunrise on Mars. How cool is that?

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From Zooborns.com

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The Hubble Space Telescope took the first photograph of a planet orbiting another star. (HT to Tim Sandefur!)

Way cool. More on the photo and the planet here.

More Hubble images:

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I just think this is so cool…. In just a few years, the voyager probes will finally leave the solar system.

I love the fact that we put a phonograph record on the probes — that’s how long ago the probes were launched. I suppose we should be grateful that we didn’t use 8-track tapes.

Here are some photos from the Voyager missions.

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