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Stamford Bridge View

Stamford Bridge pre-dates Chelsea Football Club by more than a quarter of a century. It opened on 28 April 1877 as an athletics venue and didn't become home to the Blues until 1905
Stamford Bridge stadium, home of Chelsea FC, stands empty before the F A Cup Final between Aston Villa and Huddersfield, 24th April 1920. (Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/Getty Images)

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Vivid Auroras in Jupiter's Atmosphere

Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. This observation program is supported by measurements made by NASA's Juno spacecraft, currently on its way to Jupiter. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is best known for its colorful storms, the most famous being the Great Red Spot. Now astronomers have focused on another beautiful feature of the planet, using Hubble's ultraviolet capabilities. The extraordinary vivid glows shown in the new observations are known as auroras. They are created when high-energy particles enter a planet's atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms of gas. As well as producing beautiful images, this program aims to determine how various components of Jupiter's auroras respond to different conditions in the solar wind, a stream of charged particles ejected from the sun.

Storm over The Devils Tower, Wyoming. USA

Extreme weather with lightning and an Arcus shelf cloud on the front of a severe warned thunderstorm moving over The Devils Tower.
Devils Tower is a laccolithic butte composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Mountains near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming.
This famous landmark was used in the 1977 Blockbuster film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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