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Christ Is Risen postcard by Volodymyr Bednarsky, 1983

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Alexey Kondakov

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Lydia Spivak, "Ballerina of the Brandenburg Gate"

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Street lamp of the sheet music store in Saint Petersburg

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📍Chalet al Foss, Dolomites (Italian Alps), Italy 🇮🇹

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📍Sardinia Island, Italy 🇮🇹

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Soul Train, 1981.

Ai No Corrida by Quincy Jones.

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Passengers at the scheme of Moscow metro lines at Kirovskaya station. Photo by Viktor Velikzhanin, USSR, 1968.

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Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars (desktop/laptop) Click the image to download the correct size for your desktop or laptop in high resolution

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2018 September 16

A Solar Filament Erupts Image Credit: NASA’s GSFC, SDO AIA Team

Explanation: What’s happened to our Sun? Nothing very unusual – it just threw a filament. Toward the middle of 2012, a long standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space producing an energetic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). The filament had been held up for days by the Sun’s ever changing magnetic field and the timing of the eruption was unexpected. Watched closely by the Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, the resulting explosion shot electrons and ions into the Solar System, some of which arrived at Earth three days later and impacted Earth’s magnetosphere, causing visible aurorae. Loops of plasma surrounding an active region can be seen above the erupting filament in the featured ultraviolet image. Although the Sun is now in a relatively inactive state of its 11-year cycle, unexpected holes have opened in the Sun’s corona allowing an excess of charged particles to stream into space. As before, these charged particles are creating auroras.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180916.html

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Aerial court view.

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Black hole Gargantua

Credit: Interstellar / Paramount Pictures