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Awe meaning dread mixed with veneration. Awe meaning “solemn and reverential wonder, tinged with … fear, inspired by what is … sublime and majestic in nature,” according to the OED.
Toba.
Toba was the largest volcanic explosion of the past two million years. Toba Volcano blew 74,000 years ago.

Priscilla Long discusses volcanoes, destruction, and the true meaning of awesome. Read Toba.
(Photo via The Atlantic. Claudio Santana/AFP/Getty Images)

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Seeing the Universe Above the Forest (byFort Photo)

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Scenery at the Base de Plein Air (by ThomasD300)

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Geothermal Blue - Blue Lagoon, Iceland (by orvaratli)

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Omega Nebula (Messier 17), captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground. It shows the dusty, rosy central parts of the famous star-forming region in fine detail.CREDIT: ESO

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