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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: SuperCam Target on Ma'az 🪐 What's the sound of one laser zapping? There's no need to consult a Zen master to find out, just listen to the first acoustic recording of laser shots on Mars. On Mars Rover…

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134.384 STEM

2 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Leo Trio 🪐 This popular group leaps into the early evening sky around the March equinox and the northern hemisphere spring. Famous as the Leo Triplet, the three magnificent galaxies found…

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20.512 STEM

3 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project 🪐 Recorded from 2024 March 10, to 2025 March 1, this composited series of images reveals a pattern in the seasonal drift of the Sun's daily motion through planet Earth's sky

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Blue Ghost's Diamond Ring 🪐 On March 14 the Full Moon slid through Earth's dark umbral shadow and denizens of planet Earth were treated to a total lunar eclipse. Of course, from the Moon's near side that same

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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1235: The Shark Nebula 🪐 There is no sea on Earth large enough to contain the Shark nebula. This predator apparition poses us no danger as it is composed only of interstellar gas and dust. Dark dust like that featured here is

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun 🪐 This was a very unusual type of solar eclipse. Typically, it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. In 2012, though, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the M

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8 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tololo Totality 🪐 On March 14 the Moon was Full. In an appropriate celebration of Pi day, that put the Moon 3.14 radians (180 degrees) in ecliptic longitude from the Sun in planet Earth's sky. As a bonus f

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130.797 STEM

9 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow 🪐 What phase of the Moon is 3.14 radians from the Sun? The Full Moon, of course. Even though the Moon might look full for several days, the Moon is truly at its full phase when it is Pi radian

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10 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Protostars within Lynds 483 🪐 Two protostars are hidden in a single pixel near the center of a striking hourglass-shaped nebula in this near-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The actively forming star

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12 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble 🪐 Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, featured her

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138.836 STEM