#astrophotography #cosmicrose The Cosmic Rose Galaxy. Now you might look at this and think 'hey, that's nothing'. In fact it is a pair of interacting galaxies about 300,000,000 light years distant (that's a lot of kilometers!) and receding from us at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light.

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Unanswered questions asked of Southern Water don’t just flow away | Mick Channon

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A superb 8.5 mile walk today: East Dean - Birling Gap - Beachy Head - Eastbourne. Couldn't find a Ring ouzel but I had just been thinking that, given how many Stonechats there were & how much Gorse, there really should be a Dartford warbler, when, just below Belle Tout, boom! #UKbirding #Birds

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This flock of birds flew over when I was at Beachy Head, flying east to west along the coast, and I can't work out what they are, though I'm sure someone will know. Photos cropped but unadjusted and not sharp. Any help much appreciated!

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#astrophotography #elephantstrunknebula #nebula I'm owned by Astrophotography, recently. This is The Elephant's Trunk Nebula from several hours of mosaic images stacked to provide a much more detailed view of this star birthing region of space in the constellation Cepheus 2,400 light years distant.

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