Tag: Earth
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Super Mario World Earth T-Shirt [pics]
I don’t think I have ever played a Super Mario game I haven’t liked but my favorite has always been Super Mario World. Apparently I’m not the only one because somebody took the look and feel of Super Mario World and made it look like Earth. Even though things aren’t exactly the same, it is…
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Star Wars Death Star Camouflaged as Earth [pic]
What do you do when you have a space station that you don’t want your enemies to pay attention to? You camouflage it of course! Well, considering this Death Star is half destroyed, even if it is camouflaged as Earth, I think it would still stick out like a sore thumb. The large circular missing…
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Amazing picture of the moon and Venus over Switzerland [pic]
On Wednesday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day feature on the NASA website, they posted this amazing picture (below) that was taken by David Kaplan. The photo was taken above the village of Trübbach, Switzerland and it shows the moon and Venus in the upper right and the mountain Mittlerspitz in the middle. Although it looks really cold with…
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Double solar eclipse: Moon and IIS in front of the sun [pic]
A couple of days ago, there was a solar eclipse visible in Europe and Africa and one man traveled to France for the opportunity to take a one in a lifetime picture. Thierry Legault traveled to France to capture something special. It wasn’t about just taking an amazing picture of the solar eclipse, something that…
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Total lunar eclipse visible tonight
Image via Wikipedia If you live in North or Central America, tonight is the first time in nearly 3 years that you can see a total lunar eclipse. The spectacular space show gets started at 10:33pm PST and ends at 2:01am. The total eclipse part will take place between 11:41pm PST and 12:53am. The last…
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Solar Prominence Eruption [amazing space video]
Image via Wikipedia If you are unfamiliar with NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day feature, they post an amazing space picture every day. It is common for them to post pictures from the Hubble, planets seen in the sky at sunset and even shuttle launches, but today they posted and amazing video of the sun…