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Double Ring Galaxies - The Perfect 10

These two galaxies of Arp 147 collided and passed through one another.  The rim of the blue galaxy pictured on the right shows an immense ring-like structure 30,000 light years in diameter.  The rim is composed of newly formed, extremely bright, massive stars.  This picture was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Backwards Spiral Galaxy NGC 4622


The Hubble Gallery

Spaced Penguin

Newton and Kepler would
have loved this game.


"The Flight of Helios"
 

Physics Club - Sep. 18, 2008
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Beautiful Aurora in 2001
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Photo taken by Dave Renneke

Comet LINEAR A2

This photo was taken in the Augustana Observatory on July 6, 2001 at 3:52 am. Here is the photo gallery maintained by Spaceweather.com.

A New Family of Magnetic Molecules

Researchers mixed organic nitrogen-rich compounds with nickel atoms and water.

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Comet Ikeya-Zhang.  Taken on Apr. 4, 2002 by Gerald Rhemann of Austria.


2001 Leonids photo gallery
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A Force from Empty Space:
The Casimir Effect
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Research highlights from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne.
WMAP Resolves the Universe

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A Supernova Sheds
Light on Dark Energy.