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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Apollo 14: A View from Antares 🪐
Apollo 14's Lunar Module Antares landed on the Moon on February 5, 1971. Toward the end of the stay astronaut Ed Mitchell snapped a series of photos of the lunar surface while looking out a window, assembled
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula 🪐
These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus. Called the Iris Nebula, NGC 7023 is not the only nebula to evoke the imagery of flowers.
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Plato and the Lunar Alps 🪐
The dark-floored, 95 kilometer wide crater Plato and sunlit peaks of the lunar Alps (Montes Alpes) are highlighted in this this sharp telescopic snapshot of the Moon's surface. While the Alps of planet
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy 🪐
The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, M51, also known as NGC 5194, is one of the brightest and most picturesque
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NanoSail-D2 🪐
In 2011, on January 20, NASA's NanoSail-D2 unfurled a very thin and very reflective 10 square meter sail becoming the first solar sail spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Often considered the stuff of science
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Auroral Corona 🪐
Cycle 25 solar maximum made 2025 a great year for aurora borealis (or aurora australis) on planet Earth. And the high level of solar activity should extend into 2026. So, while you're celebrating the arrival
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: HH-222: The Waterfall Nebula 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: An Artificial Comet 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M1: The Crab Nebula 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Apollo 17's Moonship 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 3I/ATLAS Flyby 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Solstice Sun Tattoo 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Long Shadows of the Montes Caucasus 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Jupiter and the Meteors from Gemini 🪐
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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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: W5: The Soul Nebula 🪐
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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🌌 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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