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Picture of the day for October 1, 2020

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Olive grove near Agii Douli, Corfu, Greece. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 30, 2020

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Church of San Juan el Real in the center of Calatayud, province of Zaragoza, Spain. The baroque church was built in the 17th and 18th century and hosts among others some of the oldest remaining paintings by Francisco de Goya in the pendentives of the main dome.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 29, 2020

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Aerial photo of Ujście Warty National Park near Kostrzyn nad Odrą (Poland). Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 28, 2020

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Strelitzer Straße in Berlin-Mitte at night. View towards Fernsehturm.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 27, 2020

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Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) burrowing into the sand.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 26, 2020

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Grey headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) skimming a pond in Brisbane's City Botanical Gardens.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 25, 2020

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Preparing to refuel a B-2 Spirit.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 24, 2020

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Panoramic view (approx. 200 degrees) of a landscape near Collahuasi Mine, northern Chile.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 23, 2020

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The blossom of Ficaria verna. Taken in Mannheim in Käfertaler Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 22, 2020

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Interior of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (New Cathedral) in Linz, Upper Austria. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 21, 2020

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Silk textile artwork showing people at work, from the Khalili Collection of Japanese Art. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 20, 2020

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Birch mushroom (Piptoporus betulinus) on the trunk of a birch.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 19, 2020

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Rabelos in the Douro River with the city of Porto in the background, Portugal. Rabelos are traditional Portuguese wooden cargo boats used for centuries to transport people and goods from along the Douro River. Wine was brought in rabelos from the interior of the country to Porto, home to many wine cellars.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 18, 2020

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Elizabeth Quay Bridge in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 17, 2020

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Horses on pasture at Parco Naturale Tre Cime, South Tyrol, Italy.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 16, 2020

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Tamka Island in Wrocław, with the Wrocław University and Ossolineum on the background.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 15, 2020

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Jewish cemetery near Waibstadt, Germany. A typical group of gravestones in the oldest, i.e. southeastern part of the cemetery. These splendid gravestones date back to the 18th century.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 14, 2020

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View from the northern slopes of Mount Somers / Te Kiekie looking towards the north. In the front, the quite eroded Winterslow Range can be seen. In the back stands the younger and less eroded Old Man Range. On the left is the Mt Somers Range that connects both ranges. Canterbury, New Zealand.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 13, 2020

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Panoramic view of Hubbard Glacier, Alaska, United States. The longest source for Hubbard Glacier originates 122 kilometres (76 mi) from its snout and it takes about 400 years for ice to traverse the length of the glacier. As the glacier is advancing it eventually blocked the outlet of Russell Fjord in 1986.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 12, 2020

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The head of a Southern Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) in the Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The Pantanal is the largest wetland in South America, but less than 2% is government-protected.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 11, 2020

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Komsomolskaya (KL) metro station in Moscow. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 10, 2020

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Francesca Palumbo, intensive care nurse of the San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy, at the end of her shift during the COVID-19 pandemic. 18 March 2020.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 9, 2020

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Skyline of Back Bay, Boston, as viewed from Longfellow Bridge.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 8, 2020

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Mystic Beach after sunset. The beach is located in Juan de Fuca Provincial Park, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 7, 2020

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View of Benidorm, touristic capital of the Costa Blanca (literally White Coast) in the Land of Valencia, Spain. The shot was taken from the Cross of Benidorm, located on the summit of the Sierra Helada. Benidorm is a town with 73,000 inhabitants throughout the year, but with a peak of over half a million in the summer season. It is the town with the third greatest concentration of tall buildings in Europe, after London and Milan. Within Spain, Benidorm is positioned third, behind Barcelona and Madrid in the total number of skyscrapers, but nevertheless, Benidorm has the most high-rise buildings per capita in the world.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 6, 2020

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A male Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus butterfly on Yoesden Bank in Buckinghamshire. In Greek mythology, Adonis was a very handsome man.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 5, 2020

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Vertical view into the splendid Gothic choir vault of Saint Michael’s Church in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 4, 2020

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Etching by Fritz Quant: Roman Bridge in Trier, Germany, before 1921.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 3, 2020

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Rain over Beinn Eich, Luss Hills, Scotland. Learn more .

Picture of the day for September 2, 2020

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Pier in Corfu, Greece. Learn more .