At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space ... of Leicester), Stefanie Milam (NASA-GSFC) Earth’s beautiful northern and southern lights are the result of auroras ...

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This beautiful painting by Nicolas Poussin has for centuries bamboozled art historians, who can’t decide whether it’s showing the birth of Venus or the triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite.