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Lunar rainbow and lunar Brocken spectre, by Kouji Ohnishi, Japan
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A meteor shower occurs when the Earth in its orbit around the Sun, passes through a debris trail left previously by a comet on its approach around the Sun.
Credit: Dai Jianfeng/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Hello Comet, shall we dance?, by Robert Barsa, Slovakia
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This image of Venus and the Pleiades also shows the tracks of the Starlink satellites.
Credit: Torsten Hansen/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
This star trail image shows the apparent movement of the stars in the night sky, which results from the Earth’s rotation around its polar axis.
Credit: Fabrizio Melandri/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
this fisheye image beautifully captures the rare optical phenomena encircling the moon known as the “22° halo” and the horizontal white circle passing through the moon called the “paraselenic circle”.
Credit: Sheila Wiwchar/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
The blurred motions of the aurora caught during the exposure time of this photograph beautifully illustrate its dynamic nature.
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A meteor shower occurs when the debris originated from comets or, on rare occasions, from asteroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed.
Credit: Tomáš Slovinský/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Comet C/2020F3 (Neowise) with separate dust and ion gas tails and a green glowing coma, by Dietmar Gutermuth, Germany
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This composite image taken in Slovakia in 2020 illustrates the effect due to artificial illumination of light polluted areas.
Credit: Tomáš Slovinský/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
A lunar eclipse occurs when the full moon moves into the Earth`s shadow.
Credit: Alessandra Masi/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
The Big Dipper in Yellowstone, by Alex Conu, Norway
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Light pollution results from the excess of artificial light produced by human endeavours mainly as a side effect of industrialisation.
Credit: Dong Han/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Time-lapse images of a total lunar eclipse that took place on 28 September 2015.
Credit: Daniel Henrion/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
This panoramic dawn image shows the majestic band of the Milky Way.
Credit: Amirreza Kamkar/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
The Geminid meteor shower over China
Credit: Hao Yin/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
This spectacular image captures some of the most dramatic expressions of Nature, the eruption of a volcano and the night sky.
Credit: Dario Giannobile/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Neowise's metamorphosis, by Tomáš Slovinský and Petr Horálek, Slovakia
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This image shows multiple features related to ice halos, which are a more common appearance around the sun, due to its brightness, than the moon.
Credit: Thomas Gigl/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
This rich panoramic image shows a range of constellations, deep sky objects and planets.
Credit: Robert Barsa/IAU OAE License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons

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The Office of Astronomy for Education is hosted by the Haus der Astronomie on the campus of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. The Office of Astronomy for Education is an office of the International Astronomical Union, with substantial funding from the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The Shaw-IAU Workshops on Astronomy for Education
are funded by the Shaw Prize Foundation.