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2026-08-03 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula 🪐

What's happening to this meteor? This bright meteor streak appeared and disappeared quickly during a long exposure of the Great Lacerta Nebula, seen faintly in red toward the center of the image. The

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2026-08-02 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia 🪐

What's happening to this cloud? Ice crystals in a distant cirrus cloud are acting like little floating prisms. Known informally as a fire rainbow for its flame-like appearance, a circumhorizon arc appears

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2026-08-01 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Buck Moon and Belt of Venus 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Buck Moon and Belt of Venus 🪐

The Buck Moon is a traditional name for the full moon of July. In this colorful Adriatic sea and skyscape captured on July 28 from Krk Island along the coast of Croatia, a full Buck Moon is just rising

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2026-07-31 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad 🪐

The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation Musca, The Fly. A dusty interstellar cloud, it's seen against rich starfields just

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2026-07-30 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Sun through Wildfire Smoke 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Sun through Wildfire Smoke 🪐

This could be the view from an exoplanet orbiting around a red dwarf star, but it is our own Sun. This image was taken on July 22, 2026, in the Okanagan region in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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2026-07-28 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Barnards Loop over Twin Volcanoes 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Barnards Loop over Twin Volcanoes 🪐

What's connecting these two volcanoes? In ancient folklore, the two volcanoes, Parinacota (left) and Pomerape (right), are connected by representing a mythical prince and princess who engaged in a forbidden

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2026-07-27 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula 🪐

What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, head-like apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply as the Bubble Nebula. Taken from Krakow, Poland, the

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2026-07-25 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tranquility and Serenity 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tranquility and Serenity 🪐

The Seas of Tranquility and Serenity are calm today. They're calm most every day though, since they are actually lunar maria, ancient lava flows filling in large impact basins on the Moon. Also known by

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2026-07-24 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant 🪐

In 185 AD, Chinese astronomers recorded the appearance of a new star in the Nanmen asterism. That part of the sky is identified with part of the southern constellation Centaurus on modern star charts.

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2026-07-23 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Large Magellanic Cloud 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Large Magellanic Cloud 🪐

Have you ever seen another galaxy with your own eyes? The featured image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest neighbors of our Milky Way. If you are anywhere south of latitude 20°

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2026-07-22 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud and the Chandelier Cluster 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud and the Chandelier Cluster 🪐

The Southern Crown (Corona Australis) dazzles with young and ancient celestial jewels. The Corona Australis Cloud is a collage of reflection and emission nebulae on the left of today’s image. At 430 light

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2026-07-21 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Turtle Rock on Mars 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Turtle Rock on Mars 🪐

Is this a fossilized turtle on Mars? No. Although resembling a large Earth tortoise, this is a layered rock outcrop on Mars that is estimated to span about 15 meters, making it much larger than turtles

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2026-07-20 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula 🪐

What's happening in the Statue of Liberty nebula? Bright stars and interesting molecules are forming and being liberated. The complex nebula resides in the star forming region called RCW 57, and besides

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2026-07-19 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert 🪐

A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. The year was 2004, and no space aliens were involved. The saucer, pictured here,

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2026-07-18 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Shadow and Rainbow 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Shadow and Rainbow 🪐

At sunset, an alignment of rainbow and mountain shadow was captured in this remarkable snapshot. The stunning view was recorded from a fire lookout on Smith Peak in the Plumas National Forest near Portola,

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2026-07-17 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2 🪐

Comet 10P/Tempel 2 orbits the Sun once every 5.4 years. Currently visible in binoculars or small telescopes toward the constellation Capricornus, the periodic comet is captured in this sharp telescopic

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2026-07-16 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 300: A Cosmic Gemstone with Stars and Gas Clouds 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 300: A Cosmic Gemstone with Stars and Gas Clouds 🪐

This sparkling, colorful gemstone is a spiral galaxy, NGC 300. It is one of the closest spiral galaxies to Earth, only about 6 million light-years away. But does it really look like this? Here is a more

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2026-07-15 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Sprites in the Tatacoa Desert 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Sprites in the Tatacoa Desert 🪐

Is there an angry Sith using force lightning in the Tatacoa Desert? This is not science fiction, but a red sprite with multiple streamers! Ordinary lightning occurs when thundercloud particles collide,

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2026-07-14 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Double Lobed Asteroid Torifune 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Double Lobed Asteroid Torifune 🪐

Why is this asteroid a double? Earlier this month the Japanese robotic spacecraft Hayabusa2 shot past asteroid 98943 Torifune and captured pictures. Although previous observations from distant Earth indicated

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2026-07-12 18:05

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams 🪐

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams 🪐

What's happening to galaxy NGC 474? The multiple layers of emission appear strangely complex given the relatively featureless appearance of the elliptical galaxy in less deep images. The cause of the shells