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2018-05-23 17:41
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 May 23 - Spiral Galaxy NGC 4038 in Collision
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing & Copyright: Domingo Pestana Explanation: This galaxy is having a bad millennium. In fact, the past 100 million years haven't been so good, and probably
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2018-05-14 18:07
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 May 14 - Saturn's Hyperion in Natural Color
Image Credit & License: NASA/JPL/SSI; Composition: Gordan Ugarkovic Explanation: What lies at the bottom of Hyperion's strange craters? To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft that once orbited
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2018-05-09 17:26
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 May 09 - The Red Rectangle Nebula from Hubble
Image Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt Explanation: How was the unusual Red Rectangle nebula created? At the nebula's center is an aging binary star system that surely
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2018-05-03 07:27
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 May 03 - Opposite the Setting Sun
Image Credit & Copyright: Roy Spencer Explanation: On April 30, a Full Moon rose opposite the setting Sun. Its yellowish moonglow silhouettes a low tree-lined ridge along Lewis Mountain in this
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2018-05-02 10:31
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 May 02 - Moon Halo over Stone Circle
Image Credit & Copyright: Alyn Wallace Photography Explanation: Have you ever seen a halo around the Moon? This fairly common sight occurs when high thin clouds containing millions of tiny ice crystals
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2018-04-25 18:06
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 April 25 - Hubble's Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, OPAL Program, STScI; Processing: Karol Masztalerz Explanation: What will become of Jupiter's Great Red Spot? Gas giant Jupiter is the solar system's largest world with
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2018-04-13 07:24
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 April 13 - Facing NGC 3344
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Explanation: From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 3344 face-on. Nearly 40,000 light-years across, the big, beautiful spiral galaxy is located just
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2018-04-12 05:58
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 April 12 - M22 and the Wanderers
Image Credit & Copyright: Damian Peach Explanation: Wandering through the constellation Sagittarius, bright planets Mars and Saturn appeared together in early morning skies over the last weeks. They
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2018-04-05 09:11
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 April 05 - NGC 289: Swirl in the Southern Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, ChileScope Explanation: About 70 million light-years distant, gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 289 is larger than our own Milky Way. Seen nearly face-on, its bright
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2018-04-04 12:41
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 April 04 - Intrepid Crater on Mars from Opportunity
Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Cornell, Opportunity Rover Team, Explanation: The robotic rover Opportunity sometimes passes small craters on Mars. Pictured here in 2010 is Intrepid Crater, a 20-meter across
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2018-03-30 07:14
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 March 30 - NGC 247 and Friends
Image Credit & Copyright: CHART32 Team, Processing - Johannes Schedler Explanation: About 70,000 light-years across, NGC 247 is a spiral galaxy smaller than our Milky Way. Measured to be only 11 million
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2018-03-29 09:04
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 March 29 - NGC 2023 in the Horsehead's Shadow
Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Mazlin, Mark Hanson, Warren Keller, Rex Parker, Tommy Tse, and Peter Proulx (SSRO / PROMPT / CTIO) Explanation: Carved by a bright young star in Orion's dusty molecular
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2018-03-27 12:09
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 March 27 - Mars Between Nebulas
Image Credit & Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer Explanation: What is that bright red spot between the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas? Mars. This gorgeous color deep-sky photograph captured the red planet passing
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2018-03-23 07:53
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 March 23 - Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Albert Barr Explanation: Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring telescopic image. Centered in the scene it's anchored right and left by
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2018-03-22 07:35
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 March 22 - NGC 253: Dusty Island Universe
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefano Cancelli, Paul Mortfield Explanation: Shiny NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, and also one of the dustiest. Some call it the Silver Dollar Galaxy
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2018-03-21 06:56
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 March 21 - Camera Orion
Image Credit & Copyright: Derrick Lim Explanation: Do you recognize this constellation? Although it is one of the most recognizable star groupings on the sky, Orion's icons don't look quite as colorful
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2018-03-15 08:27
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 March 15 - Catalog Entry Number 1
Image Credit & Copyright: Bernhard Hubl (CEDIC) Explanation: Every journey has its first step and every catalog a first entry. First entries in six well-known deep sky catalogs appear in these panels,
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2018-03-14 08:36
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 March 14 - Night Sky Highlights: March to May
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Universe2go.com Explanation: What might you see in the night sky over the next few months? The featured graphic gives a few highlights. Viewed as a clock face centered
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2018-03-12 09:52
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 March 12 - Flying over the Earth at Night II
Video Credit: NASA, Gateway to Astronaut Photography; Music: The Low Seas (The 126ers) Explanation: What would it be like to orbit the Earth? The International Space Station (ISS) does this every 90 minutes,
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2018-03-11 19:14
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2018 March 11 - Dual Particle Beams in Herbig-Haro 24
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)/Hubble-Europe Collaboration; Acknowledgment: D. Padgett (NASA's GSFC), T. Megeath (U. Toledo), B. Reipurth (U. Hawaii) Explanation: This might look
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