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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IC 2574: Coddington's Nebula 🪐
Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small, irregular galaxies form stars too. In fact, dwarf
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Orion's Cradle 🪐
Cradled in red-glowing hydrogen gas, stars are being born in Orion. These stellar nurseries lie at the edge of the giant Orion molecular cloud complex, some 1,500 light-years away. This detailed view spans
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tails of Comet Wierzchoś 🪐
Some comets are regular guests of our solar neighborhood; others come by only once, never to return. We won’t have another chance to see Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś), which is currently making its way through
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Unexplained Shocks Around a White Dwarf Star 🪐
How is RXJ0528+2838 creating such shock waves? A recently discovered white dwarf star, the farther left of the two largest white spots, RXJ0528+2838, was found 730 light-years away from Earth. Most stars,
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Roses are Red 🪐
Roses are red, nebulas are too, and this Valentine's gift is a stunning view! Pictured is a loving look at the Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237): a cosmic bloom of bright young stars sitting atop a stem of glowing
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 147 and NGC 185 🪐
Dwarf galaxies NGC 147 (left) and NGC 185 stand side by side in this deep telescopic portrait. The two are not-often-imaged satellite galaxies of M31, the great spiral Andromeda Galaxy, some 2.5 million
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Bay of Rainbows 🪐
Dark, smooth regions that cover the Moon's familiar face are called by Latin names for oceans and seas. That naming convention is historical, though it may seem a little ironic to denizens of the space
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Year of Sunspots 🪐
How many sunspots can you see? The central image shows the many sunspots that occurred in 2025, month by month around the circle, and all together in the grand central image. Each sunspot is magnetically
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Miranda Revisited 🪐
What is Miranda really like? Visually, old images from NASA's Voyager 2 have been recently combined and remastered to result in the featured image of Uranus's 500-kilometer-wide moon. In the late 1980s,
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun 🪐
An unusually active sunspot region is now crossing the Sun. The region, labelled AR 4366, is much larger than the Earth and has produced several powerful solar flares over the past ten days. In the featured
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Crescent Enceladus 🪐
Peering from the shadows, the Saturn-facing hemisphere of tantalizing inner moon Enceladus poses in this Cassini spacecraft image. North is up in the dramatic scene captured during November 2016 as Cassini's
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A 🪐
Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After only a few million years
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: Wide Field 🪐
Most galaxies don't have any rings -- why does this galaxy have three? To begin, a ring that's near NGC 1512's center -- and so hard to see here -- is the nuclear ring which glows brightly with recently
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Spider Planetary Nebula from Webb 🪐
Oh what a tangled web a planetary nebula can weave. The Red Spider Planetary Nebula shows the complex structure that can result when a normal star ejects its outer gases and becomes a white dwarf star.
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galle: Happy Face Crater on Mars 🪐
Mars has put on a happy face. The Martian crater Galle is famous because it has internal markings that make it look like a face that is both smiling and winking. These markings were originally discovered
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Artemis I: Flight Day 13 🪐
On flight day 13 (November 28, 2022) of the Artemis 1 mission, the Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from Earth. At over 430,000 kilometers from Earth, its distant retrograde orbit also puts
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus 🪐
NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans 🪐
Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 can be found in the southern constellation of the flying fish, (Piscis) Volans. Located about 50 million light-years away, the galaxy's two spiral arms extending from a pronounced
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Orion's Treasures over Snowy Mountains 🪐
Rising over a frozen valley in the Tatra Mountains, the familiar stars and nebulas of Orion dominate this wide-field nightscape. The featured deep photo was taken in southern Poland's highest mountain
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 55: A Galaxy of Nebulas 🪐
Can you see nebulas in other galaxies? Yes, some nebulas shine brightly enough -- if you know how to look. Clouds of hydrogen and oxygen emit light at very specific colors, and by isolating them, astronomers
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