Images Dated 16th November 2014

Elevated view of White Bay beaches and yachts, Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

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Challenger 2 Tank Moving Quickly During Exercise in Poland

A Challenger 2 main battle tank moving quickly over rough terrain in Poland during Exercise Black Eagle.
Around 1, 300 UK soldiers were honing their skills in the largest armoured deployment to Eastern Europe for six years.
The King's Royal Hussars Battlegroup was taking part in Exercise Black Eagle under the command of the 10th Polish Armoured Cavalry Brigade and alongside the 1st Polish Tank Battalion at the Zagan Training area in south-west Poland. The exercise included both dry-training and live-firing and was designed to develop interoperability between the two Armed Forces.
Exercise Black Eagle was a key demonstration of UK support to NATO reassurance measures and follows the RAF's commitment of Typhoon aircraft to the Baltic Air Policing Mission and the deployment of HMS Montrose off the Danish coast as part of the multi-national Baltic Ops exercise in June 2014. Further deployments are expected to take place over the next two years

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The Heart and Soul Nebulae in the constellation Cassiopeia

The Heart Nebula (at right, aka IC 1805) and the Soul Nebula (at left, aka IC 1848, and also the Fetus Nebula), in Cassiopeia. Just right of upper centre is the open star cluster NGC 1027. The star cluster in the middle of the Heart Nebula is called Melotte 15. The patch of nebulosity at upper right detached from the rest is NGC 896. The field is filled with numerous other clusters and dark nebulas from lesser known catalogs. The field lies right on the galactic equator, with most objects here located in the Perseus spiral arm, the next one out from ours, some 6000 to 7500 light years away

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