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Space is cool. National Geographic is cool.

I saw a special once about one of NG's photographers. He said they take something like 4,000 pictures each month before they chose the dozen or so that make it into the magazine.

When the best of the best are picked, they must indeed be remarkable, no?

These are some of my favorite.

 death of a sunlike star

 An object detected orbiting a neutron star

 Mars pictures show signs of watery "aquifers."

 the "eye" of the distant Helix nebula

 Magnetar explosion

more pix

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