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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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Created for the OAE The blurred motions of the aurora caught during the exposure time of this photograph beautifully illustrate its dynamic nature.
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Created for the OAE 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
Created for the OAE Comet C/2020F3 (Neowise) with separate dust and ion gas tails and a green glowing coma, by Dietmar Gutermuth, Germany
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Created for the OAE 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
Created for the OAE A lunar eclipse occurs when the full moon moves into the Earth`s shadow.
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Created for the OAE The Big Dipper in Yellowstone, by Alex Conu, Norway
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Created for the OAE Light pollution results from the excess of artificial light produced by human endeavours mainly as a side effect of industrialisation.
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Created for the OAE Time-lapse images of a total lunar eclipse that took place on 28 September 2015.
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Created for the OAE 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
Created for the OAE The Geminid meteor shower over China
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Created for the OAE This spectacular image captures some of the most dramatic expressions of Nature, the eruption of a volcano and the night sky.
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Created for the OAE Neowise's metamorphosis, by Tomáš Slovinský and Petr Horálek, Slovakia
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Created for the OAE 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.
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Created for the OAE This rich panoramic image shows a range of constellations, deep sky objects and planets.
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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 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 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 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.
Credit: Marco Migliardi on behalf of Associazione Astronomica Cortina/IAU OAE. License: Creative Comments Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Keck Telescopes
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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.