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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Perseids Over a little Planet 🪐
It looks like a view from the Little Prince's planet. The featured image is a throwback to the 2024 Perseid meteor shower, surrounded in this projection by the Bieszczady Mountains in Poland. Visible in
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Six Moons of Saturn 🪐
How many moons does Saturn have? While the total will likely continue to grow, as of June 2026 the ringed gas giant had 293 confirmed moons. That's easily more than any other planet of the Solar System,
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Three Galaxy Pairs 🪐
ch of these pairs of galaxies is different. The two galaxies at the top are likely not interacting, at least presently. However, the top galaxy with the blue stripe, NGC 4650A, is a polar ring galaxy and
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Contemplating the Sun 🪐
Have you contemplated your home star recently? Featured here, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed by earthlings contemplating the eclipse below. This spectacular
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Messier Moment for Tempel 2 🪐
Which of these is not a comet? You guessed it - the one on the right is a globular star cluster. The diffuse greenish coma of periodic comet 10P/Tempel 2 is at left in the frame. In fact the globular star
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability 🪐
What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). This instability can create waves and swirls
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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spokes on Saturn's B Ring 🪐
Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn and its rings looping forwards and backwards. A day on Saturn is only 10 hours long, so two hours of
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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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🌌 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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