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🌌 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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2 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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3 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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4 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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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Sun through Wildfire Smoke 🪐 This could be the view from an exoplanet orbiting around a red dwarf star, but it is our own Sun. This image was taken on July 22, 2026, in the Okanagan region in the Canadian province of British Co

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about 1 month 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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3 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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5 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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11 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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