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Please vote for up to THREE images you think would make the best APOD.

Thank you!
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<- Poll: Recent Submissions #27

Nebular Complex IC1396 in Cepheus
Copyright: Giovanni Sostero and Sara Garzia First seen here
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Noctilucent Clouds over St. Albert
Copyright: Murray Paulson First seen here
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Selene Rising at Sounion
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Lunar-Scenes-Sounion-10.htm
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis First seen here
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R Corona Australis Nebulae and Cluster
Copyright: Kfir Simon First seen here
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Polar Ring Galaxies
http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1966
Copyright: Alexei Moiseev, Ksenia Smirnova, Aleksandrina Smirnova, Vladimir Reshetnikov First seen here
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Near Star
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/6
Copyright: César Cantú First seen here
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Alpha Scuti Field
http://www.starkeeper.it/AlphaScuti.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi First seen here
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Aflame
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _1981.html
Image Credit: NASA First seen here
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Comet Garrard C/2009 P1
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack First seen here
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Watching the Sky
Copyright: Tunç Tezel First seen here
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Terraced Eastern Wall along the Middle Reach of Ma'adim Vallis
http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_022848_1595
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona First seen here
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Sunrise at Torre dell'Orso
http://www.danilopivato.com
Copyright: Danilo Pivato First seen here
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Death of a Sun-grazing Comet
http://indafoto.hu/godazoli/sprites/slideshow
Credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO First seen here
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<- Poll: Recent Submissions #27

Nice to see that The Olive Tree at Sounion is growing, while I am Watching The Sky...

canopia,

I hope people click on each image to see them in a larger size; it makes a HUGE difference! And I'm glad I have three votes; even with three, though, it's hard to narrow it down!

My sincerest thanks to all of the NASA APOD readers who voted for "Selene Rising at Sounion"!

My votes this time went first,

- to the polar ring galaxies, because I see in APOD a description of these intriguing objects in 1999--there may be newer ones I am unaware of.... The Cornell U. link explaining PRGs says, there is a new catalog, and APOD astronomers can give us a learned explanation of the new findings;

- second, to the artistic representation of fire in space; I do not know anything about this, and would like to find out more about this phenomenon;

- and third, to the first observation of a comet crossing paths with the Sun. Did it crash into the Sun, or did it come between the viewer and the Sun? I cannot tell, and would like to hear an astronomer discuss this event.

All pictures here are interesting and appealing in their own right.

I liked
Noctilucent Clouds over St. Albert
Watching the Sky
Near Star

and the Galaxies - Corona Australis Nebulae and Cluster

I loved the images of
Aflame
The death of a sungrazing comet
Selene Rising over Sounion