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2 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams 🪐 What's happening to galaxy NGC 474? The multiple layers of emission appear strangely complex given the relatively featureless appearance of the elliptical galaxy in less deep images

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3 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud 🪐 Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a

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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Red Glow of the Cosmic Bat Nebula 🪐 This Cosmic Bat wishes you a happy Summerween! This mid-year celebration of Halloween transcends hemispheres, even though summer in the Northern hemisphere is winter in the South. Con

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6188: Dragons of Ara 🪐 Where can you find dragons fighting in the night sky? In the southern constellation of the Altar: Ara. The dragons are, of course, actually made of suggestively shaped gas and dust. The celest

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16 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: AR 4478: Giant Sunspot Group 🪐 Right now, one of the largest sunspot groups in recent history is crossing the Sun. Active Region 4478 is not only big -- it's violent, showing tangled magnetic fields capable of throwing off huge

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about 2 months ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Aurora Slathers Up the Sky 🪐 Like salsa verde on your favorite burrito, a green aurora slathers up the sky in this 2017 June 25 snapshot from the International Space Station. About 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Earth,

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4 months ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spring Equinox at Teide Observatory 🪐 The defining astronomical moment of the equinox today is at 14:46 UTC (March 20). That's when the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving north in its yearly journey through planet Earth

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10 months ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Lunar Eclipse in Two Hemispheres 🪐 September's total lunar eclipse is tracked across night skies from both the northern and southern hemispheres of planet Earth in these two dramatic timelapse series. In th

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about 1 year ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Curly Spiral Galaxy M63 🪐 A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is nearby, about 30 million light-years distant toward the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island un

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12 months ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Coronal Loops on the Sun 🪐 Our Sun frequently erupts in loops. Hot solar plasma jumps off the Sun's surface into prominences, with the most common type of prominence being a simple loop. The loop shape originates from the Su

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