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Earth Month gallery
Los Cabos sunrise Apr 01, 2008

April is Earth month. In celebration, EarthSky gathered images from all over the world that illustrate the beauty of the planet we all live on.

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Egg gallery
Mar 22, 2008

Easter time is the time for eggs and the time for eggs is Easter time.

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Views of Ireland to celebrate St. Pat's
four-leaf clover Mar 17, 2008

March 17th is Saint Patrick’s Day. To celebrate, here is a gallery of photos of Ireland.

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Polar bears in trouble
Polar bear cubs resting with their mother. Mar 11, 2008

Gallery of polar bears. How long will they be around? The receding ice due to climate change brings a threat of possible extinction.

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Photos from inside a hurricane
Feb 10, 2008

Hurricane hunters fly into the eyes of hurricanes to understand how they work and to collect data that will help save lives. This collection of images shows the view from inside a hurricane.

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New looks at Mars: images from rovers and orbiters
Jan 26, 2008

Humans have been fascinated by the fiery glow of Mars for hundred of years. These images were taken from both orbiters and rovers from recent Mars missions.

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Blogs In Photos Category

Why the Myanmar cyclone was so deadly
Myanmar before the cyclone - On April 15 (top), rivers and lakes are sharply defined against a backdrop of vegetation and fallow agricultural land. The Irrawaddy River flows south through the left-hand side of the image, splitting into numerous distributaries known as the Mouths of the Irrawaddy. The wetlands near the shore are a deep blue green. by Dan Kulpinski

Cyclone Nargis decimated part of Myanmar from May 2-4, its huge rains and storm surge flooding the Irrawaddy River delta, killing at least 22,000 people and leaving twice as many…

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New elephant shrew species found
New species of elephant shrew, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis by Dan Kulpinski

Recently, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of elephant shrew in the mountains of Tanzania. Related more to elephants and aardvarks than to shrews, this new species is…

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ESA releases first 3D images of Mars
olympus_mons_elevation_colour_final_l.jpg by Aitana Vargas

After years of work, the European Space Agency has finally released the first and most detailed 3-D images of a large part of the Martian surface. This set of topographic…

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Sundogs bite as UFOs
Sundog by Sean Kiel by Larry Sessions

Let me start by saying that I do not know what most people of north central Texas saw and reported as a UFO last week. If the published reports…

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Hot pink flying saucers!
Hot pink flying saucer cloud over Syria by Larry Sessions

Hot pink flying saucers, enormous six-legged pigs, the Michelin Man, the Grim Reaper -- there are strange sights to be seen in clouds!!…

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