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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Dione and Rhea Ring Transit 🪐 Seen to the left of Saturn's banded planetary disk, small icy moons Dione and Rhea are caught passing in front of the gas giant's extensive ring system in this sharp telescopic snapshot. The rem

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 3I/ATLAS: A View from Planet Earth 🪐 Now outbound after its perihelion or closest approach to the Sun on October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar object to pass through our fair Solar System. Its greenish com

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka 🪐 Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka are the bright bluish stars from east to west (upper right to lower left) along the diagonal in this cosmic vista. Otherwise known as the Belt of Orion, these

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Chamaeleon Dark Nebulas 🪐 Sometimes the dark dust of interstellar space has an angular elegance. Such is the case toward the far-south constellation of Chamaeleon. Normally too faint to see, dark dust is best known for block

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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet Lemmon's Wandering Tail 🪐 What has happened to Comet Lemmon's tail? The answer is blowing in the wind — the wind from the Sun in this case. This continuous outflow of charged particles from the Sun has been quite va

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Crossing Saturn's Ring Plane 🪐 If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual prot

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Andromeda and Friends 🪐 This magnificent extragalactic skyscape looks toward the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. It also accomplishes a Messier catalog trifecta by…

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8 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Florida Northern Lights 🪐 Northern lights have come to Florida skies. In fact, the brilliant streak of a Northern Taurid meteor flashes through the starry night sky above the beach in this sea and…

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9 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Orion and the Running Man 🪐 Few cosmic vistas can excite the imagination like The Great Nebula in Orion. Visible as a faint, bland celestial smudge to the naked-eye, the nearest large star-forming region sprawls across th

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this light was from a s

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