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#11462996

8 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This image was captured with an H-Alpha solar telescope and is the result of stacking the best 20% of frames. The final stacked image has been processed to enhance the visibility of solar features such as sunspots, filaments, and prominences.) A view of the Sun through a solar telescope, showing sunspots, filaments and solar prominences, on August 8, 2024.

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#11454504

4 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Graphic content) Palestinians are mourning a member of their family in the aftermath of a reported overnight Israeli strike that hit tents used as temporary shelters by displaced people in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on August 4, 2024, as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas is continuing. Medics at the hospital are saying at least five people are being killed and 16 wounded in an Israeli drone strike on tents at the medical complex, with a separate attack on a house nearby in the same area killing three.

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#11454505

4 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Graphic content) A Palestinian woman is bidding farewell to a member of her family in the aftermath of a reported overnight Israeli strike that is hitting tents used as temporary shelters by displaced people in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on August 4, 2024, as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas continues. Medics at the hospital are saying at least five people are killed and 16 wounded in an Israeli drone strike on tents at the medical complex, with a separate attack on a house nearby in the same area killing three.

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#11454507

4 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Graphic content) A Palestinian woman is bidding farewell to a member of her family in the aftermath of a reported overnight Israeli strike that is hitting tents used as temporary shelters by displaced people in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on August 4, 2024, as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas continues. Medics at the hospital are saying at least five people are killed and 16 wounded in an Israeli drone strike on tents at the medical complex, with a separate attack on a house nearby in the same area killing three.

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#11454510

4 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Graphic content) A Palestinian woman is bidding farewell to a member of her family in the aftermath of a reported overnight Israeli strike that is hitting tents used as temporary shelters by displaced people in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on August 4, 2024, as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas continues. Medics at the hospital are saying at least five people are killed and 16 wounded in an Israeli drone strike on tents at the medical complex, with a separate attack on a house nearby in the same area killing three.

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#11454511

4 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Graphic content) Palestinians are mourning a member of their family in the aftermath of a reported overnight Israeli strike that hit tents used as temporary shelters by displaced people in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on August 4, 2024, as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas is continuing. Medics at the hospital are saying at least five people are being killed and 16 wounded in an Israeli drone strike on tents at the medical complex, with a separate attack on a house nearby in the same area killing three.

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#11453636

4 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Graphic content) A man is standing around waiting for the World Naked Bike Ride to start in St. Louis, Mo., on July 27, 2024.

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#11452526

3 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was captured through a telescope using ''lucky imaging'' technique: this astrophotography technique captures short-exposure frames or videos, extracting and combining the best frames with specialized software for a sharper, detailed final image during stable atmospheric conditions.) Cysatus, Gruemberger, Moretus, Curtius, Newton, Short, Zach, Pentland and other craters are seen on the Moon through a telescope in L'Aquila, Italy on July 27th, 2024.

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#11452515

3 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was captured through a telescope using ''lucky imaging'' technique: this astrophotography technique captures short-exposure frames or videos, extracting and combining the best frames with specialized software for a sharper, detailed final image during stable atmospheric conditions.) Montes Caucasus mountains and Aristillus, Autolycus, Archimedes craters in Mare Imbrium (Sea of Showers) are seen on the Moon through a telescope in L'Aquila, Italy on July 27th, 2024.

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#11452514

3 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was captured through a telescope using ''lucky imaging'' technique: this astrophotography technique captures short-exposure frames or videos, extracting and combining the best frames with specialized software for a sharper, detailed final image during stable atmospheric conditions.) Clavius, Porter, Blancanus, Scheiner, Maginus, Longomontanus, Moretus and Curtius and other craters are seen on the Moon through a telescope in L'Aquila, Italy on July 27th, 2024.

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#11452509

3 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was captured through a telescope using ''lucky imaging'' technique: this astrophotography technique captures short-exposure frames or videos, extracting and combining the best frames with specialized software for a sharper, detailed final image during stable atmospheric conditions.) Pluto crater on the illuminated side, Aristoteles and Eudoxes on the side on the shadow are seen on the Moon through a telescope in L'Aquila, Italy on July 27th, 2024.

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#11452502

3 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was captured through a telescope using ''lucky imaging'' technique: this astrophotography technique captures short-exposure frames or videos, extracting and combining the best frames with specialized software for a sharper, detailed final image during stable atmospheric conditions.) Werner, Aliacenis, Apianus and Poisson craters are seen on the Moon through a telescope in L'Aquila, Italy on July 27th, 2024.

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#11449951

2 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was converted to black and white) U.S. President Joe Biden after freed prisoners Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva arrived at Joint Base Andrews on August 1, 2024 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Their release, negotiated as part of a 24-person prisoner exchange with Russia that involved at least six countries, is the largest prisoner exchange in post-Soviet history.

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#11449953

2 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was converted to black and white) U.S. President Joe Biden after freed prisoners Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva arrived at Joint Base Andrews on August 1, 2024 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Their release, negotiated as part of a 24-person prisoner exchange with Russia that involved at least six countries, is the largest prisoner exchange in post-Soviet history.

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#11449957

2 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was converted to black and white) U.S. President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris walk on the tarmac after welcoming home freed prisoners Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva after they arrived at Joint Base Andrews on August 1, 2024 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Their release, negotiated as part of a 24-person prisoner exchange with Russia that involved at least six countries, is the largest prisoner exchange in post-Soviet history.

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#11449958

2 August 2024

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was converted to black and white) U.S. President Joe Biden after freed prisoners Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva arrived at Joint Base Andrews on August 1, 2024 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Their release, negotiated as part of a 24-person prisoner exchange with Russia that involved at least six countries, is the largest prisoner exchange in post-Soviet history.

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