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Created for the OAE This panoramic dawn image shows the majestic band of the Milky Way.
Credit: Amirreza Kamkar/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE The Geminid meteor shower over China
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Created for the OAE This spectacular image captures some of the most dramatic expressions of Nature, the eruption of a volcano and the night sky.
Credit: Dario Giannobile/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE Neowise's metamorphosis, by Tomáš Slovinský and Petr Horálek, Slovakia
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Created for the OAE This image shows multiple features related to ice halos, which are a more common appearance around the sun, due to its brightness, than the moon.
Credit: Thomas Gigl/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE This rich panoramic image shows a range of constellations, deep sky objects and planets.
Credit: Robert Barsa/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE Lunar rainbow and lunar Brocken spectre, by Kouji Ohnishi, Japan
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Created for the OAE Total lunar eclipses belong to the rather spectacular celestial events and can be observed easily with and without a telescope.
Credit: Muhammad Rayhan/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE Astronomy is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) of the sciences, and as such has connection to various cultures over millennia.
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Created for the OAE Aurorae often display waving curtain-like patterns where arcs or bands form moving curls, folds, or even spirals.
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Created for the OAE Aurorae are the result of ionisation and excitation processes in Earth's upper atmosphere, caused by charged particles from the solar wind or from coronal mass ejections.
Credit: Marco Migliardi on behalf of Associazione Astronomica Cortina/IAU OAE. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Rhea reappearing after occultation by Titan
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The Callisto satellite
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Ganymede seen by Juno spacecraft
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic icons
Comet Shoemaker-Levy After Crossing Jupiter's Roche Limit
Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Weaver and E. Smith (STScI) License: Public Domain icons
An Encounter With Halley's Comet
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WISE Survey Capturing the Whole Sky in Infrared Light
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Great Britain covered by snow
Credit: NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center License: Public Domain icons
Solar absorption lines
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$A prism refracting a beam of white light into a spread of rainbow colors from (right to left) blue to green to yellow to red$

Light Dispersion by a Triangular Prism
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The Office of Astronomy for Education is hosted by the Haus der Astronomie on the campus of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. The Office of Astronomy for Education is an office of the International Astronomical Union, with substantial funding from the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The Shaw-IAU Workshops on Astronomy for Education
are funded by the Shaw Prize Foundation.