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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Three Galaxy Pairs 🪐 ch of these pairs of galaxies is different. The two galaxies at the top are likely not interacting, at least presently. However, the top galaxy with the blue stripe, NGC 4650A, is a polar ring

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6 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability 🪐 What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). This instabil

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spokes on Saturn's B Ring 🪐 Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn and its rings looping forwards and backwards. A day on Saturn is only 10…

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about 13 hours ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Six Moons of Saturn 🪐 How many moons does Saturn have? While the total will likely continue to grow, as of June 2026 the ringed gas giant had 293 confirmed moons. That's easily more than any other planet of the So

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3 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Contemplating the Sun 🪐 Have you contemplated your home star recently? Featured here, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed by earthlings contemplating the eclipse below. This spec

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Messier Moment for Tempel 2 🪐 Which of these is not a comet? You guessed it - the one on the right is a globular star cluster. The diffuse greenish coma of periodic comet 10P/Tempel 2 is at left

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1 day ago

The Sun From the Void In this video, we cover the details about the Sun. Video narrated by me and edited/produced by friends of mine. ▶ Watch on 3speak.tv

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2 days ago

A Solar Eclipse Sent Me Down a Moon Rabbit Hole - !Upcoming Solar Eclipse on August 12, 2026!

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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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about 2 months ago

Tardigrades: The Indestructible Travelers of the Microscopic World ![Tardigrades: The Indestructible Travelers of the Microscopic World](

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