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APOD today linked to another great site that for some reason I've never checked out before. Simple address, space.com
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This one is awesome today:

I would post it, but it's a 371KB GIF, and won't upload, so you'll have to link to it. It's pretty cool, though.


Explanation: It's not the sky that's falling. More accurately, the Earth is rising. The Earth's rotation gives a continually changing view to all Earth observers, including those measuring the universe at the Paranal Observatory. The observatory's four, massive 8.2 meter telescope units are situated on top of the 2,600 meter high mountain, Cerro Paranal, in the dry Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The individual unit telescopes can be used separately or in combination. Their names, Antu, Kueyen, Melipal, and Yepun, are taken from the Mapuche language. Fittingly they translate to Sun, Moon, Evening Star, and Southern Cross. Together they are fittingly known as the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. A higher time resolution version of the above movie is available here.

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Got 3-D glasses? Check out the Face on Mars image at APOD. The real deal, without shadows, doesn't look much like a face, does it?
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