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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Three Galaxies in Pavo 🪐 Some 190 million light-years away, far beyond the bright stars and nebulae of the Milky Way, these three galaxies are drawn together by gravity in a mesmerizing cosmic dance. Clearl

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2 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sibling Supernova Remnants 🪐 What happens when one of the stars in a binary goes supernova? This image combines visible (yellow), ultraviolet (purple) and infrared light (cyan, red and orange) to show two supernova remna

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Unusually Smooth Sections of Asteroid Itokawa 🪐 Why are parts of this asteroid's surface so smooth? The answer seems likely to do with the dynamics of an asteroid that is a loose pile of rubble rather than a solid rock.

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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M82: Galaxy with a Supergalactic Wind 🪐 Why is the Cigar Galaxy billowing red smoke? M82, as this starburst galaxy is also known, was stirred up by a recent pass near large spiral galaxy M81. This doesn't fully explain the so

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about 3 hours ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pathfinder on Mars 🪐 On July 4th, 1997, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft bounced like a giant beach ball at least 15 times before…

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6 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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