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n-a-s-a: Comet of the North Image Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén

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n-a-s-a: Some of the fastest meteoroids can travel through the solar system at a speed of around 42 kilometers per second (26 miles per second). Credit: Erich Meyer

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n-a-s-a: IC 1396 Credit: Matthew T. Russell

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semperannoying: U.S. Marines eat hot chow during a break from mountain warfare training at the Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, Calif., March 4, 2009. The Marines are assigned to the 1st Marine Division’s 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment. The battalion executed the 25-day training to prepare for their upcoming deployment later this year. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lt. Col. Martin F. Wetterauer

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n-a-s-a: NGC 7023 The Iris Nebula Credit: Matthew T. Russell

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pl0nk3r: The Second, More Famous Flag-Raising On Iwo Jima.Shortly after the first flag-raising on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Lieutenant Colonel Chandler W. Johnson, the Battalion commander, told Second Lieutenant Albert T. Tuttle, Assistant Operations Officer, 2d Battalion, 28th Marines, to go down to one of the ships on the beach and get a large battle flag - “large enough that the men at the other end of the island can see it. It will lift their spirits also.” Lieutenant Tuttle went on board LST 779, beached near the base of the volcano and obtained a larger set of colors. Ironically, the flag from LST 779 which would soon fly over the first captured Japanese territory had been salvaged from Pearl Harbor, probably from some decommissioned destroyer or destroyer escort.