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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Solstice Sun Tattoo 🪐 The word solstice is from the Latin for Sun and to pause or stand still. And in the days surrounding a solstice the Sun's annual north-south drift in planet Earth's sky does slow down, pause, an

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1 day ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Long Shadows of the Montes Caucasus 🪐 When the Moon is at its first quarter phase, the Sun rises along the Montes Caucasus as seen from the lunar surface. The lunar mountain range casts the magnificent, spire-like shadows

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3 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Jupiter and the Meteors from Gemini 🪐 Jupiter, the Solar System's ruling gas giant, is the brightest celestial beacon at the center of this composite night skyscape. The scene was constructed by selecting the 40 exposures

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: W5: The Soul Nebula 🪐 Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the Soul Nebula can be found in the direction of the constellation…

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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Andromeda and Sprites over Australia 🪐 What’s happening over that tree? Two very different things. On the left is the Andromeda galaxy, an object that is older than humanity and will last billions of years into the futur

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6 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Gemini Meteors over Snow Capped Mountains 🪐 Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Gemini. That is why the major meteor shower in Dece

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9 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Northern Fox Fires 🪐 In a Finnish myth, when an arctic fox runs so fast that its bushy tail brushes the mountains, flaming sparks are cast into the heavens creating the northern lights. In fact the Finnish word "revont

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10 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxies in the River 🪐 Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy engages in a sort of galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that are too close and are captured by the Milky…

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11 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Horsehead Nebula 🪐 Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, this dusty interstellar molecular cloud has by chance assumed an immediately recognizable shape. Fittingly known as The Horsehead Nebula…

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12 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Heart of the Soul Nebula 🪐 This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871. About 25 light-years across, the telescopi

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