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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus 🪐 There was something behind the clouds. Upon close inspection, it was the Moon, which was hard to see yesterday around noon above the small village of Cessy, France. But soon, it was n

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M83: The Southern Pinwheel 🪐 Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. Prominent spiral arms traced by dark dust lanes and b

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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula 🪐 What does this image look like to you? Many see a giraffe facing right, with neck stretched high and long legs mid-stride (but some may see a squirrel instead). The featured image shows LDN

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole 🪐 Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud since discovery in 1987 in data taken by NASA’s Voyager spa

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8 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars 🪐 The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North America Nebula by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. The d

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9 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pluto in Enhanced Color 🪐 Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System's most famous dwarf planet, taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft during its fly

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10 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Chasing the Moon's Shadow 🪐 Chasing the shadow of a New Moon, NASA’s WB-57F high altitude research aircraft took to the skies off the coast of Iceland on August 12 to observe a total solar eclipse. At 50,0

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11 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola 🪐 Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, is the Hawaiian name given to this image of a pair of spiral galaxies locked in a mutual gravitational embrace. Some 200 million light-years distant toward the

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12 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Eclipse and the Stork 🪐 How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse. If you are lucky enough to exp

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13 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Solar Eclipses and Culture 🪐 Pretend you have never heard of a solar eclipse. The Sun’s behavior has been predictable your whole life. One day, you witness the sky transform as it does in today’s spliced image spanning two

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