Saturn

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June 2, 2016 at 4:27 pm

Paul Williamson

Abu Dhabi

Celestron C11 & ASI 224

Saturn taken from Al Khazna Desert, Abu Dhabi

2016-05-27T00:00:00

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Observations of the Stingray Nebula by the Hubble Space Telescope. Left shows the object as it appeared in 1996. Right shows the object in 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), and G. Ramos-Larios (Universidad de Guadalajara)

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