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An ambulance with lights flashing drives down a road.

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A life preserver and a chain link fence with a body of water in the background.

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A small hedgehog peers over a log in the forest.

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A view of a Perseid meteor shower in a purple sky with pine trees in the foreground.

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Webb NIRCam composite image from two filters – F212N (orange) and F335M (cyan) – of Jupiter system.

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Supermassive black hole

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History of famous firsts in space

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Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface in July 1969. This photograph was taken by astronaut Neil A. Armstrong.

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NASA astronaut Robert L. Curbeam Jr. and European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang continue construction on the International Space Station (ISS).

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The giant, petulant star Eta Carinae.

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A series of coronal loops extending over the sun’s surface

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