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I actually use a color version of this image as my avatar on the International Skeptics forum (formerly the JREF forum). How about using the quote in the paragraph of the original book? It would make a superb title for the illustration: 'Where the sky and the Earth touch.' That's a possibility. In t...

There is an incredible photo of the eclipse on today's Optics Picture of the Day http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fza92.htm. If it's available for APOD and it isn't already in the APOD queue, it should be. Eclipse Shadow bands on Cloud ~ The web is full of images of the March 9, 2016 total solar eclipse ov...

Great video! Congrats to Mr. Rivest.

Green flashes at the South Pole can last for minutes. A video of that would be great.

This video mentions them but doesn't show any.

This video claims to show them, but I don't see any that really qualify.

Nuitsacrees wrote:I recommend the main course, "Litríkur Stormur" ( Color Storm in icelandic)

The segment starting at 4:50--Incredible! Magnificent! Merci beaucoup!

I'm a baby boomer, and my first memory of this image is from Disney's "Man in Space".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWJrvT9sTPk#t=6m29s

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Congratulations and a million thanks for showing all the great images and their information!

Other. I also can't remember where or when I first heard of APOD, but it must have been sometime in the 90s. I've been visiting it daily ever since.