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Keck Observatory Fires Up MOSFIRE

April 8, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Last week, on April 4, 2012, the W.M. Keck Observatory’s brand-new MOSFIRE instrument opened its infrared-sensing eyes to the Universe for the first time, capturing the image above of a pair of interacting galaxies known as The Antennae. Once fully commissioned [...]

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Hawaii Volcanoes Pictures

September 21, 2010

Here are some Hawaii Volcanoes pictures. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. Here’s an nice view of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii captured on July 1995 during the STS-70 mission. Kilauea is an active [...]

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Hawaii from Space

August 2, 2010

Here are some amazing photos of Hawaii from space. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. Here’s an oblique view of the Hawaiian Islands taken from the International Space Station during the Expedition 17 mission [...]

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Black Sand Beach

January 15, 2010

A fairly rare occurrence around the world is the black sand beach. There are two types of black sand: one type of black sand is a heavy, glossy, partly magnetic mixture of usually fine sands, found as part of a placer deposit: the other type of black sand, found on beaches near a volcano, consists [...]

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