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© Laurent Laveder
Yesterday in Bretagne, France, photographer Laurent Laveder woke before dawn to watch Venus, Saturn and the Moon rise together over a local marina. "I made a 50-minute, 22-megabyte movie of the event," he says.

"The show was cut short by the arrival of the clouds, but it was great anyway!" he says. Challenge: Watch the movie again and find the blue heron. It's asleep on one of the boats.

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