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π SpacePicture of a Day: HH-222: The Waterfall Nebula πͺ
What created the Waterfall Nebula? The origin is still being researched. The structure, officially designated Herbig-Haro 222, appears in the region of NGC 1999 in the Great Orion Molecular Cloud complex.
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π SpacePicture of a Day: An Artificial Comet πͺ
Yes, but can your comet tail do this? No, and what you are seeing is not the tail of a comet. The picture features a cleverly overlayed time-lapse sequence of a group of satellites orbiting Earth together
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π SpacePicture of a Day: M1: The Crab Nebula πͺ
This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen in 1054 AD, is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not only tremendously complex but
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π SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud πͺ
Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. And almost every spot in this jewel-box of an image from the Hubble Space Telescope is a star. Now, some stars are more red than our Sun, and some more
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π SpacePicture of a Day: Apollo 17's Moonship πͺ
Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the near vacuum of space. Digitally enhanced and reprocessed, this picture taken from Apollo 17's command module
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π SpacePicture of a Day: 3I/ATLAS Flyby πͺ
Attention grabbing interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS made its not-so-close flyby of our fair planet on December 19 at a distance of 1.8 astronomical units. That's about 900 light-seconds. Still, this deep
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π SpacePicture of a Day: Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree πͺ
A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the
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π SpacePicture of a Day: Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe πͺ
What are these little red dots (LRDs)? Nobody knows. Discovered only last year, hundreds of LRDs have now been found by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe. Although extremely faint, LRDs
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π SpacePicture of a Day: Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge πͺ
Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere
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π SpacePicture of a Day: A Solstice Sun Tattoo πͺ
The word solstice is from the Latin for Sun and to pause or stand still. And in the days surrounding a solstice the Sun's annual north-south drift in planet Earth's sky does slow down, pause, and then
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π SpacePicture of a Day: Long Shadows of the Montes Caucasus πͺ
When the Moon is at its first quarter phase, the Sun rises along the Montes Caucasus as seen from the lunar surface. The lunar mountain range casts the magnificent, spire-like shadows in this telescopic
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π SpacePicture of a Day: Jupiter and the Meteors from Gemini πͺ
Jupiter, the Solar System's ruling gas giant, is the brightest celestial beacon at the center of this composite night skyscape. The scene was constructed by selecting the 40 exposures containing meteors
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π SpacePicture of a Day: W5: The Soul Nebula πͺ
Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the Soul Nebula can be found in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia, whom Greek mythology
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π SpacePicture of a Day: Andromeda and Sprites over Australia πͺ
Whatβs 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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π SpacePicture of a Day: Gemini Meteors over Snow Capped Mountains πͺ
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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π SpacePicture of a Day: Northern Fox Fires πͺ
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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π SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxies in the River πͺ
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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π SpacePicture of a Day: The Horsehead Nebula πͺ
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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π SpacePicture of a Day: The Heart of the Soul Nebula πͺ
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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π SpacePicture of a Day: Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater πͺ
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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