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Chocolate Quartz 

Locality:  Lian Ping Quartz Mine, Guangdong Province, China.

💙 Colours over the bridge on 500px by Gary Alway, Melbourne, Australia ☀  Canon EOS 70D-f/4-1/125s-35mm-iso400, 3648✱5472px-rating:91.2 ◉  Photo location: Google Maps 

The Porpoise Galaxy

This is the fourth week of Red, White and Blue Stars Month!

This week’s entry: Types of Stars

http://typeslist.com/different-types-of-stars/

This 12,400-year-old puppy may be brought back to life using cloning

Well-preserved remains of a 12,400-year-old puppy from the extinct Pleistocene canid species have been discovered near the Tumat village in the Sakha Republic of Russia. Scientists believe the puppy was an ancient pet — one of man’s first best friends. How they plan to bring the animal back to life.

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744

Fun Science Fact:

If you just got excited, you’re a nerd

Anticrepuscular rays are spectacular optical phenomena that are quite rare and they require the viewer to have his or her back to the sun or sunset point. They are columns of sunlit air streaming through gaps in clouds. Yet while the former seem to converge from the sun, anticrepuscular rays converge toward the antisolar point, the point in the sky directly opposite the sun, creating some stunning effects. (Source) 

The beautiful rings of Saturn. (NASA: 1, 2)