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The Heart Nebula is an emission nebula, 7500 light years from Earth, located in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787. Spanning almost 2 degrees in the sky, its shape is driven by stellar winds from the hot stars in its core. The nebula displays glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes, and is also made up of ionised oxygen and sulfur gasses, which cause rich blue and orange colours to be seen in narrowband images. This photograph of the Heart Nebula, with the Fish Head Nebula also visible in the top right corner, is a narrowband image captured on a 70mm scope with a capture period of around 44 hours.Photograph credit: Ram Samudrala

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Panorama of Along the River During Ching Ming Festival, 18th century remake of a 12th century original by Chinese artist Zhang Zeduan

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Take photos of the following (listed on Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Washington, D.C.):

List of Washington, D.C. embassies

Circles in DC:

Anna J. Cooper Circle - intersection of 3rd and T Streets in the LeDroit Park neighborhood
Grant Circle - intersection of New Hampshire and Illinois Avenues and Varnum and 5th Streets
Pinehurst Circle - intersection of Western and Utah Avenues and 33rd and Worthington Streets
Sherman Circle - intersection of Illinois Avenue, Kansas Avenue, 7th Street, and Crittenden Street NW
~~Tenley Circle - Tenleytown.~~
Westmoreland Circle - straddling the Maryland and Washington border, at the intersection of Western Avenue, Butterworth Place, Massachusetts Avenue, Dalecarlia Parkway, and Wetherill Road.

Embassies (List of Washington, D.C. embassies):