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North Korean soldiers salute in front of Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, in Pyongyang on Thursday, April 25, 2013.
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The sun sets behind a train passing over a bridge in Xingtai, southern Hebei province, south of Beijing, March 10, 2013.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Looking at the sun helps show how the lines between science and art can sometimes blur. A gradient filter enhances areas of contrast, which makes them both more striking visually and also easier for astronomers to study. Scientists can get a better look at coronal loops, for example — giant arcs of solar material that travel along magnetic fields in the sun's atmosphere. This can lead to an improved understanding of solar magnetism as a whole, which can also power eruptions on the sun such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections.
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The sun sets behind a memorial for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims on Dec. 19, 2012, in Newtown, Conn.
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"Ring of Fire "
A dense cloud of loop-shaped gas erupts from the Sun's surface. Solar prominences, as this occurrence is called, can loop thousands of miles into space and can persist in the Sun's corona for several months. The largest known prominence, an extension over 430,000 miles — roughly equivalent to the star's radius — was observed in 2010.
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The sun sets behind the 2012 London Olympic Rings on Tower Bridge in London, on August 10, 2012.
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The sun sets behind the 2012 London Olympic Rings on Tower Bridge in London, on August 10, 2012.
NASA / SDO / AIA
The sun erupted with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle on March 6, 2012 at 7PM EST.
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The sun sets on the cliffs and glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
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The sun sets over the Manhattan skyline during a major power outage in 2003.
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"Top of the Rock, Rockefeller Center"
For photographers, the most beautiful time of the day comes at dusk, when the fading light from the sun balances evenly with the light of the streetlamps and skyscraper windows. One of the best places to capture this nightly tableau is the Observation Deck on top of Rockefeller Center. Admission is $20. On most days, lines tend be longer in the morning than in the evening.
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Page 3 girls from the Sun Newspaper stand outside the entrance to the Hallenstadion during the 61st FIFA Congress at Hallenstadion
NASA
A view of the sun in its entirety
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Watching the sun set from the historically black town of Oak Bluffs.
The sun shines on the empty seafront in Mombasa, Kenya.
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The sun sets in Macau, China.
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The sun sets over an oil refinery.
Andrea Wyner
As the sun sets in the horizon, a member of the Outstanding in the Field team chops vegetables on the cutting board as guests wait eagerly in the fields.
Benoit Tessier / Reuters
People enjoy the sun as "Paris Plages" (Paris Beaches) opens along the banks of River Seine in Paris July 21, 2008.
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The sun sets over Arafat's destroyed compound in the West Bank
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The sun's corona peeks out from behind the moon during the eclipse
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The sun sets on the Federal Prison in Terre Haute and the Timothy McVeigh saga
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The sun sets over Mawenzi Peak on Mt. Kilimanjaro
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The President-elect wants the sun to shine on
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This image provided by NASA shows an image captured by NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory of a blast of plasma streaming from the sun in August 2012.
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In this 2011 photograph, the sun unleashes a large flare, a type of coronal mass ejection.
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Photovoltaic panels track and rotate along the path of the sun in Hinesburg, Vt., Dec. 24, 2012.
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Picture of an advert placed in the Buenos Aires Herald by Britain's The Sun warning Argentina to keep its "hands off" the Falklands, taken at a newsstand in Buenos Aires, on January 4, 2013
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A tourist watches as the moon passing in front of the sun as it approaches a full solar eclipse in the northern Australian city of Cairns November 14, 2012.
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Still image of Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol Ju during the inaugural ceremony of the Kumsusan Palace Of The Sun in Pyongyang.
Air Force photo / Val Gempis
Retired Air Force C-5 cargo planes and other no-longer-needed military aircraft glint as the sun sets over Davis-Monthan Air Force Base's "boneyard" in the Arizona desert outside Tucson.
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Pope Benedict XVI sits before making his farewell speech as the sun sets at the airport in Lahr, southern Germany, on September 25, 2011, on the final day of his first state visit to his native Germany
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Construction workers toll under the sun in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, July 6, 2010 where temperatures are expected climb.
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This Aug. 27, 2012, photo shows farmland near Hopkinsville, Ky. Visitors are expected to head to this rural area when the next total eclipse of the sun darkens skies over parts of the United States on Aug. 21, 2017.
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this X-ray photo of the sun on Aug. 1, 2010
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Arizona State University students fill up keg cups at a party at the Sun Devil Ski Club.
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"Sol Train"
Crowds in China's Hubei Province donned special eyewear to avoid retinal damage while staring at the sun.
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NASA / Kepler Mission
Astronomers have used the Kepler Space Telescope (seen in an artist's rendition, above) to locate likely planets orbiting stars beyond the sun.
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Unpublished. During a break in filming A Place in the Sun, Taylor chats with her costar Montgomery Clift on the Paramount lot in 1950. The two would remain close friends; she would even save his life in 1956, after he smashed his car into a telephone pole following a party at her house. (Taylor removed his shattered teeth from his throat, and kept him from choking).
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"We're sitting around the swimming pool up on the deck," remembers Dominis, "and Steve goes away and he comes back without any clothes on! He just enjoyed being out in the desert, looking at the sun.... He was just so natural about everything. There was no time to feel embarrassed, so I shot all the pictures that I needed to shoot. I shot some pictures specially of his backside so we could use them in the magazine, because in most of them he was just [full-frontal] nude. He wasn't hiding anything."
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"We're sitting around the swimming pool," Dominis recalls, "and Steve goes away and he comes back without any clothes on! He just enjoyed being out in the desert, looking at the sun. . . . He was just so natural about everything. There was no time to feel embarrassed, so I shot all the pictures that I needed to shoot. I shot some pictures specially of his backside so we could use them in the magazine, because in most of them he was just [full-on] nude. He wasn't hiding anything."
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