Transit of Mercury

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May 10, 2016 at 9:58 am

Alessio Vaccaro

Italy

I made this with an apochromatic refractor, a solar filter and an unmodded reflex from Italy.

I am an young Italian engineer with passion for astronomy and deep sky astrophotography.

2016-05-10T00:00:00

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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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