Your favorite APOD/Space images.
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Re: Your favorite APOD/Space images.
The Pleiades Star Cluster. The full-size image is 2400px × 1807px. Click to view full size and/or right-click and "save target (link) as" ...

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Re: Your favorite APOD/Space images.
Io floating above Jupiter, as snapped by Cassini:

This is the biggest version I can find.

This is the biggest version I can find.

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Re: Your favorite APOD/Space images.
We do thumbnails now, KLR, so people can just click the image to see it full size.klr wrote:The Pleiades Star Cluster. The full-size image is 2400px × 1807px. Click to view full size and/or right-click and "save target (link) as" ...
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Re: Your favorite APOD/Space images.
I've allways liked this one http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0661.html




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Re: Your favorite APOD/Space images.
The Eagle Nebula and the Pillars of Creation.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... ez_big.jpg[/imgc]
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These are stunning.
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Re: Your favorite APOD/Space images.
What's the thumbnail code?Gawdzilla wrote:We do thumbnails now, KLR, so people can just click the image to see it full size.klr wrote:The Pleiades Star Cluster. The full-size image is 2400px × 1807px. Click to view full size and/or right-click and "save target (link) as" ...
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This is either an alien outpost on the Moon, or the ISS. 
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Re: Your favorite APOD/Space images.
It's automatic on larger images.klr wrote:What's the thumbnail code?Gawdzilla wrote:We do thumbnails now, KLR, so people can just click the image to see it full size.klr wrote:The Pleiades Star Cluster. The full-size image is 2400px × 1807px. Click to view full size and/or right-click and "save target (link) as" ...
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Ah. I still prefer to save bandwidth, so ...Gawdzilla wrote:It's automatic on larger images.klr wrote:What's the thumbnail code?Gawdzilla wrote:We do thumbnails now, KLR, so people can just click the image to see it full size.klr wrote:The Pleiades Star Cluster. The full-size image is 2400px × 1807px. Click to view full size and/or right-click and "save target (link) as" ...
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One of my favourite wallpapers ...
The Dark Tower in Scorpius - same instructions as before:

Original is 2200px × 1456 pixels, and 2.3 MB in size.
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Re: Your favorite APOD/Space images.
It never seems to work for me?Gawdzilla wrote:It's automatic on larger images.klr wrote:What's the thumbnail code?Gawdzilla wrote:We do thumbnails now, KLR, so people can just click the image to see it full size.klr wrote:The Pleiades Star Cluster. The full-size image is 2400px × 1807px. Click to view full size and/or right-click and "save target (link) as" ...
One of my favourite wallpapers ...

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PAPPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Supply Ship Approaches the International Space Station :

Clicky-clicky again for the original. The original image is rotated 90 degrees, but you can do a lossless rotation with JPG files.

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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson



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