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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN 🪐 In late March, the comet now designated C/2025 F2 SWAN was found independently by citizen scientists Vladimir Bezugly, Michael Mattiazzo, and Rob Matson while examining publicly availabl

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Virgo Cluster Galaxies 🪐 Galaxies of the Virgo Cluster are scattered across this nearly 4 degree wide telescopic field of view. About 50 million light-years distant, the Virgo Cluster is the closest large galaxy cluster t

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Halo of the Cat's Eye 🪐 What created the unusual halo around the Cat's Eye Nebula? No one is sure. What is sure is that the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae on the sky. Although haunt

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb 🪐 What happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel? For stars like our Sun, the center condenses into a white dwarf while the outer atmosphere is expelled into space to appear as a pla

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT 🪐 What's happening at the center of our galaxy? It's hard to tell with optical telescopes since visible light is blocked by intervening interstellar dust. In other bands of light,

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6 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moon Near the Edge 🪐 Most of us watch the Moon at night. But the Moon spends nearly as many daylight hours above our horizon, though in bright daytime skies the lunar disk looks pale and can be a little harder

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The ISS Meets Venus 🪐 Made with a telescope shaded from bright sunlight by an umbrella, on April 5 a well-planned video captured a crescent Venus shining in clear daytime skies from Shoreline, Washington, USA at 11:57AM

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8 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 38 Hours with the M81 Group 🪐 From a garden on planet Earth, 38 hours of exposure with a camera and small telescope produced this cosmic photo of the M81 galaxy group. In fact, the group's dominant galaxy M81 is near the cente

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9 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: HH 49: Interstellar Jet from Webb 🪐 What's at the tip of this interstellar jet? First let's consider the jet: it is being expelled by a star system just forming and is cataloged as Herbig-Haro 49 (HH 49). The star system expelling

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moon Visits Sister Stars 🪐 Sometimes, the Moon visits the Pleiades. Technically, this means that the orbit of our Moon takes it directly in front of the famous Pleiades star cluster, which is far in the distance. The techni

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