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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Six Moons of Saturn 🪐 How many moons does Saturn have? While the total will likely continue to grow, as of June 2026 the ringed gas giant had 293 confirmed moons. That's easily more than any other planet of the So

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2 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Three Galaxy Pairs 🪐 ch of these pairs of galaxies is different. The two galaxies at the top are likely not interacting, at least presently. However, the top galaxy with the blue stripe, NGC 4650A, is a polar ring

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3 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Contemplating the Sun 🪐 Have you contemplated your home star recently? Featured here, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed by earthlings contemplating the eclipse below. This spec

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Messier Moment for Tempel 2 🪐 Which of these is not a comet? You guessed it - the one on the right is a globular star cluster. The diffuse greenish coma of periodic comet 10P/Tempel 2 is at left

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6 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability 🪐 What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). This instabil

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spokes on Saturn's B Ring 🪐 Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn and its rings looping forwards and backwards. A day on Saturn is only 10…

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9 days ago

🌌 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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10 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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11 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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12 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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