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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula 🪐 What's happening to this meteor? This bright meteor streak appeared and disappeared quickly during a long exposure of the Great Lacerta Nebula, seen faintly in red toward

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3 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia 🪐 What's happening to this cloud? Ice crystals in a distant cirrus cloud are acting like little floating prisms. Known informally as a fire rainbow for its flame-like appearance, a circumh

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Buck Moon and Belt of Venus 🪐 The Buck Moon is a traditional name for the full moon of July. In this colorful Adriatic sea and skyscape captured on July 28 from Krk Island along the coast of Croatia, a full Buck Mo

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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad 🪐 The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation Musca, The Fly. A dusty interstellar cloud, it's seen against rich starfields

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6 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Sun through Wildfire Smoke 🪐 This could be the view from an exoplanet orbiting around a red dwarf star, but it is our own Sun. This image was taken on July 22, 2026, in the Okanagan region in the Canadian province of British Co

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8 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Barnards Loop over Twin Volcanoes 🪐 What's connecting these two volcanoes? In ancient folklore, the two volcanoes, Parinacota (left) and Pomerape (right), are connected by representing a mythical prince and princess who e

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9 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula 🪐 What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, head-like apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply as the Bubble Nebula. Taken from Krakow, Polan

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11 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tranquility and Serenity 🪐 The Seas of Tranquility and Serenity are calm today. They're calm most every day though, since they are actually lunar maria, ancient lava flows filling in large impact basins on the Moon. Also

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12 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant 🪐 In 185 AD, Chinese astronomers recorded the appearance of a new star in the Nanmen asterism. That part of the sky is identified with part of the southern constellation Centaurus on modern star

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13 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Large Magellanic Cloud 🪐 Have you ever seen another galaxy with your own eyes? The featured image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest neighbors of our Milky Way. If you are…

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