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This image of Pluto, released on 23 July 2015, clearly shows the now familiar heart-shaped region nicknamed Tombaugh Regio. The photo is actually a combination of observations from the main camera on New Horizons (called LORRI) and the probe’s visible/infrared imager (known as Ralph) which provided data for the colours in the view. The enhanced colours allow scientists to identify differences in the composition and texture of Pluto’s surface, according to a NASA image description. TUM image id: 1620402347 Licence:	Letter to Chuck Berry from Carl Sagan (1986) TUM image id: 1621596953 Licence:	Russell Croman took this detailed photo of the waxing Moon. Credit: Russell Croman TUM image id: 1621874487 Licence:	Saturn and its rings, as seen from above the planet by the Cassini spacecraft Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute TUM image id: 1620648753 Licence:	Expedition 44 off to the International Space Station launched on Soyuz TMA-17M from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Credit: Roscosmos TUM image id: 1620402649 Licence:
The establishment of a Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London was proposed in 1674 by Sir Jonas Moore who, in his role as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, persuaded King Charles II to create the observatory, with John Flamsteed installed as its director. Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG) played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and because the Prime Meridian passes through it, it gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time, the precursor to today’s Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The ROG has the IAU observatory code of 000, the first in the list. Credit: Kjetil Bjørnsrud TUM image id: 1621597663 Licence:	The Statue of Yuri Gagarin in Greenwich, London, is a zinc statue depicting the cosmonaut wearing a spacesuit and standing on top of a globe. Credit: Anatoly Novikov TUM image id: 1621892426 Licence:	The foothills of the Andes Mountains near the southern coast of Peru were captured by the Kompsat-2 satellite. The Andes stretch from Venezuela down South America’s west coast to the top of Argentina. The mountain rage is the result of the Nazca and Antarctic tectonic plates moving under the South American plate—a geological process called subduction. This process is also responsible for the Andes range’s volcanic activity. Credit: KARI TUM image id: 1621890979 Licence:	Star Dunes in Algeria. The image was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite on October 27, 2012. It was made from a combination of near-infrared and visible light. In this type of false-color image, sand is tan and shadows are black or gray. The blue-tinted areas are likely mineral-rich evaporites. The image is centered at 29.8°north latitude, 7.9°east longitude, near the town of Gadamis. As is common with star dunes, some of the dunes have long interlacing arms connecting to nearby dunes. Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS/ASTER Science Team TUM image id: 1621679144 Licence:	Crooms Hill (1937) TUM image id: 1657290361 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone created 40 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent began a slow-motion collision with Asia. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data TUM image id: 1621873745 Licence:	The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched into orbit on 24 April 1990. Viewed from the HST, the Horsehead Nebula is located just next to Orion’s belt. This cloud of dust and gas is a region where stars are forming. When viewed in visible light the Horsehead appears dark, a cosmic chess piece silhouetted against pink and red glowing gas. In infrared light, as in this image, the dust becomes visible, delicate billows of clouds surrounding baby stars just getting their start in the Universe. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) TUM image id: 1621889002 Licence:	Arktika-M spacecraft entering high elliptical orbit after a launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage on 28 February 2021. When flight tests are finished, we will have new ability to observe the Arctic region and ocean from space. Photo: Credit: Roscosmos TUM image id: 1620396365 Licence:	The aurora borealis, or northern lights, fill the sky behind a caribou in Norway on 19 February 2014 Credit: Ole Salomonsen / Arctic Light TUM image id: 1621872360 Licence:	Mars and Phobos Credit: NASA TUM image id: 1621875039 Licence: