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The image shows the Orion constellation. This constellation gets this red hazy look from its nebulae.   For example, near Rigel, is the witch head nebula. As cosmic birthing grounds, these nebulae and cosmic wind slowly make new stars.

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The following is an image taken from the space station, over North America. visible are several major cities, New York, Washington, etc. They are nicely sandwiched between two russian satellites docked to it.  This image shows how humans do have an impact of on the world. Even from space, you can view the lights and power of major population centers. T

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The above is the black eye galaxy. The eye part is easy to see, it does indeed look like an eye, with its disk, and center pupil.  Black however, it is not, showing its stark contrast from the spotted blackness of space behind it.
About 17 million light years away, this galaxy is not alone. It is likely the result of two galaxies rotating in opposite directions, whom merged. Perhaps one of them got a black eye?

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This image shows a comet flying over the night sky. At first glance, it might appear to be two comets, but in reality, it is one comet, that looks very similiar to M31, The andromedia galaxy, which it is nearby.
The image was taken at midnight, where all this was visible to the naked eye, in Sweden.

Edward Barnard Biography

     Edward was born in Nashville, Tennessee to a poor family. His father died, and he initially received no education. Eventually, he discovered two comets, began getting renown in his local town.

The astronomers of his local town saw this, and began to raise money. Collectively, they got enough money to send him to Vaunderbilt university. He never graduated, however, Vaunderbilt has awarded him an honorary degree.

     He has done asome significant work in astronomy, and with all types of astronomical objects. From the moons of Jupiter, to the spokes of Saturn, to the dark regions of the galaxy, Barnards work has spanned the spectrum. He started with just a small refractor telescope, and worked his way up. His community helped him, and got him the money to go to Vanderbilt University. Here he got access to better telescopes, along with a better education. Afterwards, he joined an observatory, and got access to his best telescopes, and made most of his discoveries. At Lick university, which he joined in 1887, he discovered, Saturns spokes, in 1889, spokes that run parallel to its rings. He discovered Jupiters fifth moon, and that the dark galaxy spots were gas, not empty. Later on, near the end of his life, he discovered a star, and cataloged nebula.

    Bernard discovered many things over his career, and has much named after him, from craters to stars. He had an honorary degree from Vaunderbilt, as despite his great discoveries later on, and obvious brilliance, he never graduated. Everything must come to an end however, and Bernard met his in 1923. He died in Wisconsin, but was brought back to his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, to be buried. However, his fame continued to grow after death, as his photos were published in very journals and texts.  

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