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Shrine dedicated to Shiva situated at the shore of the Gangabal Lake, a high altitude glacial lake in the Indian Himalayas. The lake is situated at the foot of Mount Haramukh in Jammu and Kashmir, and is called Gangabal meaning 'place of Ganga' in Kashmiri language. It is considered sacred in Hinduism as an abode of Shiva and used by Kashmiri Hindus to immerse the ashes of their dead after cremation. It has been described as a place of pilgrimage in several ancient Hindu texts and an annual Hindu pilgrimage to the lake starts from a nearby 8th century Shiva temple. This picture was taken in the month of Shravan, the fifth month of the Hindu calendar, which is dedicated to the worship of Shiva.

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Flower buds of a Agapanthus praecox Snow White. A pure white dwarf, 45 cm. Focus stack of 50 photos.

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Position light (with image of St. Christopher) of a Rolls-Royce Phantom II.

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Eruption of Strokkur (Icelandic for "churn") a fountain geyser located in the Haukadalur geothermal area, southwest of Iceland.

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This painting on the ceiling in Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, a church on Via Veneto in Rome, depicts the Virgin Mary being assumed body and soul into heaven. Today is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary in much of Western Christianity or the Dormition of the Mother of God in Eastern Christianity.

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The Victorious Youth is a Greek bronze sculpture, made between 300 and 100 BCE, in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, displayed at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California. It was found on this day of 1964 in the sea off Fano on the Adriatic coast of Italy.

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A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc HH 30 around a newly formed star produced by NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. It is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. Herbig-Haro objects are small nebulae found in star formation regions, marking the locations where gas outflowing from young stars is heated into luminescence by shockwaves. HH 30 is an example of where this outflowing gas takes the form of a narrow jet. The source star is located on one end of the jet, hidden behind an edge-on protoplanetary disc that the star is illuminating.

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Ensemble of the Solovetsky Monastery in the fog on a summer evening. Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Common yellow gilder (Cymothoe egesta), Kakum National Park, Ghana. Feeding on overripe banana.

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West side of Hochosterwitz Castle, municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Carinthia, Austria.

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The Colosseum was built between 72 and 80 AD and is the largest amphitheatre ever built. It is the symbol of the Italian capital Rome.

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The Comet NEOWISE on 15 August 2020 from Konská, Žilina District, Slovakia. It resulted the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997, but it would have been exceeded in brightness by comet Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in 2024.

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