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Finger-ring; memento mori; engraved and enameled gold; bezel in form of clasped book; on upper side is white skull between four stones (sapphire, ruby, emerald and diamond), two green toads and snakes. Made in France(?) or Belgium(?) 1525-1575. Housed at British Museum. [3195x1668]
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Photograph of Apollo 15 astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module, and lunar roving vehicle, August 1, 1971.
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Faience Ring with Cat and Kittens, Egyptian Ramesside/Third Intermediate Period ca. 1295–664 B.C. Housed at the Met Museum [3200x4000]
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Gold Persian coins, called darics, found in 2023 during excavations at the ancient city of Notion in Turkey and dated to the fifth century BC. The coins show a figure of a kneeling archer, the characteristic design of the Persian daric. [1991x1134]
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Eta Carinae, in the Keyhole Nebula, imaged by Hubble. Imaging the nebula in ultraviolet captured the glow of magnesium in warm gas (in blue) between the dusty bipolar bubbles and the outer shock-heated nitrogen-rich filaments (in red). Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith and J. Morse
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Dwarf elliptical galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, features a core of hot, massive blue stars. Imaged by Hubble.
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Simulation demonstrates the spin-up of asteroid Didymos that could have led to its equatorial ridge and the formation of Dimorphos. Particles colored according to their speeds, along with the continually changing spin period of Didymos (legend at top). Credit: UMich/Y Zhang, JH APL/O Barnouin
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Kohoutek 3-46, a butterfly-shaped planetary nebula, captured with Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory. Located in the constellation Cygnus, Kohoutek 3-46 is around 20,000 years old and around 7200 light-years away. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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Comet 67P/C-G. This animation comprises 86 images acquired by the Navigation Camera on board ESA's Rosetta spacecraft as it approached the comet in August 2014. The first image August 1 at 11:07 UTC (13:07 CEST), from 832 km away. The last image August 5 at 15:07 UTC (17:07 CEST) from 142 km.
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