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about 15 hours ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Unraveling NGC 3169 🪐 Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years away, south of bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans. Wound up

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1 day ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1300: Barred Spiral Galaxy 🪐 Across the center of this spiral galaxy is a bar. And at the center of this bar is smaller spiral. And at the center of that spiral is a supermassive black hole. This all happens in the big, be

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: R3 PanSTARRS: An Orion Comet 🪐 Comet R3 PanSTARRS might be best remembered as an Orion comet. A key reason is because Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) was near its most spectacular -- in terms of tail visibility -- when passing in fr

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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier Catalog at Uniform Scale 🪐 What are some of the most interesting astronomical objects you can see in the night sky? Armed with a good pair of binoculars or a small telescope, if you live in the Northern Hemis

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6 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 188: Old Cluster in the New General Catalog 🪐 The New General Catalog of star clusters and nebulae really isn't so new. In fact, it was published in 1888 - an effort by J. L. E. Dreyer to consolidate the work of astronomers Wi

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3 days 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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about 2 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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2 months ago

T-Shirt Concept: Retro Rocket and DIY Makers ▶️ Watch on 3Speak Here is a video I made to advertise a t-shirt design I'm working

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8 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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12 months 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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