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pappubahry: Eruption of the Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, photographed by New Horizons, 1 March 2007, during its gravity-assist Jupiter flyby on its way to Pluto.  I’ve brightened the pictures so that some detail on the darker part of Io is clearer. The gif covers about 8 minutes of real time.  If you count pixels and look up Io’s diameter, it looks like the plume’s “only” being thrown up to an altitude of 200km or so.  But in fact the volcano is in the opposite hemisphere to the one we see here (albeit at a high latitude of about 67 degrees), and the plumes are reaching a height of over 300km. There is much more detail about this volcano at the Gish Bar Times blog.
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ahhmmmburr: boymoans: james edward keeler—the great nebula in orion (photographs of nebulae and clusters, made with the crossley reflector, 1900) (via ottiliee)
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explore-blog: What’s not to love about these solar system lollipops? A perfect way to celebrate the 35th birthday of Voyager 1, which brought us the iconic Pale Blue Dot. (↬ Doobybrain)
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n-a-s-a: The Helix Nebula from the VISTA Telescope Credit: ESO/VISTA/J. Emerson 
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dvdp: Hundreds of pictures of Earth, each taken at about 6AM , show the terminator - the day/night line - over the course of one year (2010sep-2011sep).Taken by METEOSAT-9 Earth-observing satellite.Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
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