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Created for the OAE The Milky Way Over Anglers Reach
Credit: Lucy Yunxi Hu/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE Winter Milky Way
Credit: Giorgia Hofer/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE Winter Constellations
Credit: Mohamed Aboushelib/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE The Pillar of Creation
Credit: Giorgia Hofer/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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
Credit: Jianfeng Dai/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE 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.
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Created for the OAE Hello Comet, shall we dance?, by Robert Barsa, Slovakia
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Created for the OAE This image of Venus and the Pleiades also shows the tracks of the Starlink satellites.
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Created for the OAE 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 Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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”.
Credit: Sheila Wiwchar/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE The blurred motions of the aurora caught during the exposure time of this photograph beautifully illustrate its dynamic nature.
Credit: Emanuele Balboni/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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 Commons 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 Commons 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.
Credit: Alessandra Masi/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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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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.