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26 Aug 2011, 5:42 pm

Io, one of Jupiter's Galilean satellites (the four satellites of Jupiter that Galileo saw when he trained a telescope on the planet). Due to gravitic strain from Jupiter, Io is covered with sulfur volcanoes, belching orange and yellow minerals across the moon's surface (which led astronomers who saw the first pictures from the Voyager 1 flyby to dub Io the Pizza Planet). Since Io is fairly small, and doesn't have much of a gravity well itself, some of the sulfur manages to escape, forming a sort of doughnut around Jupiter in Io's orbit (this has been dubbed the Io Torus).

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26 Aug 2011, 5:49 pm

Jupiter

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26 Aug 2011, 6:09 pm

Krypton, Supermans home planet.

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30 Aug 2011, 12:26 pm

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30 Aug 2011, 11:43 pm

Luke, I am your father...

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31 Aug 2011, 5:22 am

meteor

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31 Aug 2011, 12:30 pm

Neutron star.

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31 Aug 2011, 12:35 pm

Orions Nebula

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31 Aug 2011, 1:23 pm

pegasus constellation

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31 Aug 2011, 1:27 pm

Quasar.

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31 Aug 2011, 1:30 pm

Right ascension and declination.

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31 Aug 2011, 1:31 pm

Supermassive Black Hole, eating a puppy.

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31 Aug 2011, 1:35 pm

Titan.

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31 Aug 2011, 1:36 pm

Uranus. Said the naughty way. (I have not been waiting too long to say that...)

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31 Aug 2011, 1:43 pm

Vernal equinox

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31 Aug 2011, 1:47 pm

White Dwarf

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