Mindblowing Images

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Nara Dreamland was built in 1961 after Disneyland took the world by storm. The entrance to the park was almost identical to Disneyland and included its own version of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle. The park closed in 2006 because of low visitor numbers.













Gary, Indiana, was founded in 1905 during the boom of US steel. During the 1950s, more than 200,000 people worked in the bustling city. As the manufacturing sector declined, nearly half of the city fell into disuse.

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Lake Reschen is an artifical reservoir which submerged several villages and a 14th century church.



The Glenwood Power Station, built in 1906, has long been obsolete. After closing in 1968, the sight was used as a backdrop for creepy thrillers and zombie movies.

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Poveglia is an island in the Venetian Lagoon which under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte became a dumping ground for plague victims and later an asylum for the mentally ill.

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These are seriously unreal.

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So coooool.

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They blew my mind, so I'm glad they blew yours too!

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It's better to give than receive. Sexually.

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So, this new collection that I found is courtesy of space [taken from huffington post, so I included their little blurbs on each as well].

CRAB NEBULA



This image, shot by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the iconic supernova remnant first observed by Chinese astronomers 960 years ago.

SUN'S CANYON OF FIRE:



A 200,000-mile magnetic filament of solar material erupts on the sun. This event, which took place in September, ripped through the sun's atmosphere and left behind what looks like a "canyon of fire."

WITCH HEAD NEBULA:



This nebula's name comes from its resemblance to a wicked witch screaming into space. Taken by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, this photo captures the billowy clouds of the nebula, where baby stars are being made.

This looks more like Falcor to me lmao

STAR NURSERY IN ORION:



This 10-minute exposure reveals nebula M-78, a set of more than 40 young, still-forming stars in the constellation of Orion.

HORSEHEAD NEBULA:



The Hubble Space Telescope took this breathtaking shot of the iconic Horsehead Nebula.

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CLOUD FORMATIONS OVER INDONESIA:



This view of Earth from space shows mushrooming clouds over the Indonesian island of Flores, as seen by NASA's Aqua Satellite.

GAS AND DUST CLOUDS:



This image, generated by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows dust and gas clouds surrounding the supermassive star Eta Carinae.

FIREWORKS GALAXY:



This is NGC 6946, a medium-sized spiral galaxy located 22 million light years from Earth. It got its nickname, "The Fireworks Galaxy," because eight supernovas have been observed exploding inside it.

ASTEROIDS DASHING PAST A DYING STAR:



NASA's WISE spacecraft took this striking shot of asteroids zooming past a dying star. As the heated gas and dust get sloughed away from the star, it creates the beautiful blue appearance.

A GENERATION OF STARS:



The Spitzer Space Telescope captured this image of the star-forming region W5. There are generations of stars in this photo -- the oldest stars appear as blue dots, while the youngest stars outline the cavities where the old ones reside. The white areas are where young stars are forming.

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SATURN'S MOON, TITAN:



The Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on July 14.

COMET ISON HEADING TOWARD THE SUN:



On November 27, Comet ISON was imaged by the European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. In this coronagraph, the sun is blocked so you can see structures around it. The comet is at lower right. The billowy white streams coming from the sun are giant clouds of solar material.

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT ACROSS USA:



This natural-light mosaic image was captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) satellite on Oct. 1.

SPIRAL GALAXY 4921:



The Hubble Space Telescope took this photo of Galaxy 4921, an anemic spiral galaxy about 320 million light years from Earth. It's been dubbed "anemic" because it has a low rate of star formation and low surface brightness. In this image, its bright nucleus can be seen in the center. Blue clusters of recently formed stars gather around it.

NANO SATELLITES BEING RELEASED FROM THE ISS:



These nanosatellites, or cubesats, were deployed by the International Space Station's Small Satellite Orbital Deployer on November 19.

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MERCURY:



This image of the planet Mercury was taken on October 2.

STELLAR EXPLOSION:



The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of a star exploding in the spiral galaxy NGC 6984. The new supernova, SN 2013ek, is the bright star-like object just slightly above and to the right of the galaxy's center.

VIEW OF EARTH FROM SPACE:



The photo shows the Upsala Glacier on the Argentine side of the North Patagonian Icefield as seen by an astronaut aboard the ISS.

SATURN'S NORTH POLE:



This image, taken by the Cassini spacecraft over 10 hours on December 10, shows a vast hexagonal weather pattern capping Saturn's north pole.

THE GHOST OF JUPITER NEBULA:



This image, taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope, shows the disembodied remnants of a dying star. The infrared view shows the cooler outer halo of the dying star in red.

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CYGNUS SPACECRAFT BEING RELEASED:



On October 22, ISS astronauts released Orbital Sciences Corporation's Cygnus spacecraft. It headed back to Earth on October 23 after delivering to the ISS 1,300 pounds of cargo -- including food, clothing and student experiments.

COLORFUL MERCURY:



NASA's Mercury-orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft captured this dazzling false-color image.

LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD:



This sparkly satellite galaxy is about 163,000 light years from our own.

NORTHERN LIGHTS FROM SPACE:



Mike Hopkins, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, took this picture.

VESTA, THE ASTEROID:



NASA's Dawn spacecraft provided views of the massive asteroid Vesta. The mountain on the asteroid's south pole is more than twice the height of Mount Everest.

GRAY EARTH:



This image was captured by the Juno spacecraft on October 9. The craft used Earth's gravity to get a boost to reach its destination: Jupiter.

SPACECRAFT APPROACHING THE ISS:



This photo shows a Soyuz spacecraft as it approached the International Space Station on September 25.

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Found more today that excited me.

Antarctica from space:



Wilbur Wright flies around the Statue of Liberty:



Tank Man in Tiananmen Square:



MLK Jr's I have a dream speech:

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Jackie Kennedy watching JFK debate Nixon:



Aftermath of Victory over Japan in NYC:



Iranian soldiers looking at the oil fields burning in Iraq:

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Hollywood sign right after it was built:



The Beatle's shoot for SGT. Pepper's cover:



JFK delivering his speech in Berlin:



Spectators watch the signing of the treaty in Versailles: