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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

A simple sight, well suited for amatuer astronomers. Each day, a new picture is up with a short text. If you go back a couple of days, with the little arrow, you can see a film of a japanese lunar lander decending on the moons surface. I use this page as my home page. Some of the nebula shots from hubble make outstanding desktop backgrounds.
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P.S. The sight is a great way to keep up on everyones spaceshots, whats going on with Mir, what the shuttles are up to, what discoveries the mars landers and Cassini have made, and so on. Keeps you current.
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Very neat!:)
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Wonderful.
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http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110105.html

Everyone should see this pic; also read the explantion. Amazing.
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Wow, he only had a 1 second margin of error to capture that!
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Nice, Thanks for sharing....;):cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:
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From post: 99365, Topic: tid=4907, author=soulsacrifice wrote:http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110105.html

Everyone should see this pic; also read the explantion. Amazing.
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nice , just got a tele. for xmas, been haveing much fun with;)
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Funny, I was thinking the same thing! :D
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I'm really sorry, I couldn't get this out of my head so had to do this...
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ahhahaha, beautiful! :D
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I knew it! I knew it! Star Wars IS real! :P:P
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ROFL........:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P....I don't have any spare ribs left......that did it........:D
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There not, they just hurt alot from laughing. I meant none spare left to hurt more....:P
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No "spare ribs"...mmm covered in barbecue sauce!
Or parboiled with saurkraut and potatoes! Yummy!
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awesome pictures :)
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