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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Red Glow of the Cosmic Bat Nebula 🪐 This Cosmic Bat wishes you a happy Summerween! This mid-year celebration of Halloween transcends hemispheres, even though summer in the Northern hemisphere is winter in the South. Con

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3 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6188: Dragons of Ara 🪐 Where can you find dragons fighting in the night sky? In the southern constellation of the Altar: Ara. The dragons are, of course, actually made of suggestively shaped gas and dust. The celest

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Dueling Bands over the Atacama Desert 🪐 What are these two bands in the sky? The more commonly seen band is on the left and is the central band of our Milky Way galaxy. Our Sun orbits in the disk of this spiral galaxy so that

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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Saturn's Iapetus: Painted Moon 🪐 What has happened to Saturn's moon Iapetus? Vast sections of this strange world are dark as coal, while others are as bright as snow. To help better understand this unusually tinted moon, in

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6 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pathfinder on Mars 🪐 On July 4th, 1997, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft bounced like a giant beach ball at least 15 times before…

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Three Galaxies in Pavo 🪐 Some 190 million light-years away, far beyond the bright stars and nebulae of the Milky Way, these three galaxies are drawn together by gravity in a mesmerizing cosmic dance. Clearl

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8 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sibling Supernova Remnants 🪐 What happens when one of the stars in a binary goes supernova? This image combines visible (yellow), ultraviolet (purple) and infrared light (cyan, red and orange) to show two supernova remna

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10 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Unusually Smooth Sections of Asteroid Itokawa 🪐 Why are parts of this asteroid's surface so smooth? The answer seems likely to do with the dynamics of an asteroid that is a loose pile of rubble rather than a solid rock.

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11 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M82: Galaxy with a Supergalactic Wind 🪐 Why is the Cigar Galaxy billowing red smoke? M82, as this starburst galaxy is also known, was stirred up by a recent pass near large spiral galaxy M81. This doesn't fully explain the so

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12 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: AR 4478: Giant Sunspot Group 🪐 Right now, one of the largest sunspot groups in recent history is crossing the Sun. Active Region 4478 is not only big -- it's violent, showing tangled magnetic fields capable of throwing off huge

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