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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Andromeda and Sprites over Australia 🪐
What’s happening over that tree? Two very different things. On the left is the Andromeda galaxy, an object that is older than humanity and will last billions of years into the future. Andromeda (M31) is
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Gemini Meteors over Snow Capped Mountains 🪐
Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Gemini. That is why the major meteor shower in December is known as the Geminids
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Northern Fox Fires 🪐
In a Finnish myth, when an arctic fox runs so fast that its bushy tail brushes the mountains, flaming sparks are cast into the heavens creating the northern lights. In fact the Finnish word
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxies in the River 🪐
Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy engages in a sort of galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that are too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity. In fact,
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Horsehead Nebula 🪐
Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, this dusty interstellar molecular cloud has by chance assumed an immediately recognizable shape. Fittingly known as The Horsehead Nebula, it lies some 1,500 light-years
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Heart of the Soul Nebula 🪐
This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871. About 25 light-years across, the telescopic
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater 🪐
Fifty three years ago, in December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon exploring the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae 🪐
Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long. Recently discovered, they are revealed in unprecedented detail in this deep telescopic image centered
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Visualization: Near a Black Hole and Disk 🪐
What would it look like to plunge into a monster black hole? This image from a supercomputer visualization shows the entire sky as seen from a simulated camera plunging toward a 4-million-solar-mass black
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M77: Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center 🪐
What's happening in the center of nearby spiral galaxy M77? The face-on galaxy lies a mere 47 million light-years away toward the constellation of the Sea Monster (Cetus). At that estimated distance, this
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 3I ATLAS: Tails of an Interstellar Comet 🪐
How typical is our Solar System? Studying 3I/ATLAS, a comet just passing through, is providing clues. Confirmed previous interstellar visitors include an asteroid, a comet, a meteor, and a gas wind dominated
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moon Games 🪐
This is not a screen from a video game. Nestled below the tree-line, the small mountain church does look like it might be hiding from Moon though. In the well-composed telephoto snapshot, taken on November
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula 🪐
NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a about 25 light-years across, a cosmic bubble blown by winds from its central, massive star. This deep telescopic image includes narrowband image data,
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Portrait of NGC 1055 🪐
Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of a small galaxy group a mere 60 million light-years away toward the aquatically intimidating constellation Cetus. Seen edge-on, the island universe
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Globular Cluster M15 Deep Field 🪐
Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright globular cluster M15. The central ball of over 100,000 stars is a relic from the early years of our Galaxy, and continues to orbit the Milky Way's center.
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way 🪐
What did Comet Lemmon look like when it was at its best? One example is pictured here, featuring three celestial spectacles all at different distances. The closest spectacle is the snowcapped Meili Mountains,
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Apep: Unusual Dust Shells from Webb 🪐
What created this unusual space sculpture? Stars. This unusual system of swirls and shells, known as Apep, was observed in unprecedented detail by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in infrared light in
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Observable Universe 🪐
How far can you see? Everything you can see, and everything you could possibly see, right now, assuming your eyes could detect all types of radiations around you -- is the observable universe. In light,
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Dione and Rhea Ring Transit 🪐
Seen to the left of Saturn's banded planetary disk, small icy moons Dione and Rhea are caught passing in front of the gas giant's extensive ring system in this sharp telescopic snapshot. The remarkable
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 3I/ATLAS: A View from Planet Earth 🪐
Now outbound after its perihelion or closest approach to the Sun on October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar object to pass through our fair Solar System. Its greenish coma and faint
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