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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster 🪐 Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as large and clear as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bri

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Shadow of a Martian Robot 🪐 What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the Opportunity rover exploring Mars. Opportunity explored the Red Planet from 2004 to 2018, finding evidence of a

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Twilight with Moon and Planets 🪐 Only two days after the February New Moon's annular eclipse of the Sun, a slender lunar crescent poses above the western horizon after sunset in this wintry twilight skyscape. Its nightside faintly

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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, d

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5 days ago

🌌 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…

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6 days ago

🌌 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 w

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7 days ago

🌌 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-year

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9 days ago

🌌 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…

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10 days ago

🌌 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…

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11 days ago

🌌 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 denizen

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