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Created for the OAE Galaxy Arm
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Created for the OAE Portrait of a Bat
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Created for the OAE To guard the Stars and the Sea Together
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Created for the OAE Milky Way Arch over La Palma
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Created for the OAE Dreamlike Starry Sky and Airglow
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Created for the OAE Romanian Orion
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Created for the OAE Watchtower and Paddy Fields Under the Starry Sky
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Created for the OAE The Moon and Milky Way arch Above the Golden Hall
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Created for the OAE The Milky Way Over Anglers Reach
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Created for the OAE Winter Milky Way
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Created for the OAE Winter Constellations
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Created for the OAE The Pillar of Creation
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Created for the OAE Big Dipper in Four Seasons
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Created for the OAE The Kingdom of Orion
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Created for the OAE Lyrid of the Lake
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Created for the OAE Aurorae are the result of ionisation and excitation processes in Earth's upper atmosphere, caused by charged particles from the solar wind or from coronal mass ejections.
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Created for the OAE Aurorae often display waving curtain-like patterns where arcs or bands form moving curls, folds, or even spirals.
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Created for the OAE Astronomy is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) of the sciences, and as such has connection to various cultures over millennia.
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Created for the OAE Total lunar eclipses belong to the rather spectacular celestial events and can be observed easily with and without a telescope.
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Created for the OAE 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”.
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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.