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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars 🪐
>The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North America Nebula by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. The deep featured pict...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pluto in Enhanced Color 🪐
>Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System's most famous dwarf planet, taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in 2015 ...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Chasing the Moon's Shadow 🪐
>Chasing the shadow of a New Moon, NASA’s WB-57F high altitude research aircraft took to the skies off the coast of Iceland on August 12 to observe a total solar eclipse. At 50,000 feet the aircraf...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola 🪐
>Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, is the Hawaiian name given to this image of a pair of spiral galaxies locked in a mutual gravitational embrace. Some 200 million light-years distant toward the hi...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Eclipse and the Stork 🪐
>How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse. If you are lucky enough to expe...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Solar Eclipses and Culture 🪐
>Pretend you have never heard of a solar eclipse. The Sun’s behavior has been predictable your whole life. One day, you witness the sky transform as it does in today’s spliced image spanning two ho...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Plane Lunar Eclipse 🪐
>Did you need to be on the right side of this airplane to see this eclipse? No. Lunar eclipses are routinely seen from the half of the Earth facing the Moon when the eclipse occurs, making them som...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M74: A Grand Design Spiral 🪐
>If not the most grand, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, M...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Eclipse Pair 🪐
>clipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can nearly align. Then the new and full phases of the Moon, separated by just o...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Sky Turns Above Paranal 🪐
>At the latitude of ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, about 25 degrees south, Earth's rotation moves the planet's surface eastward at over 1,500 kilometers per hour. And while that's faster than ...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Colorful Aurora over Icelandic Waterfall 🪐
>What a sight to behold, when a night sky became filled with colors that appeared to rain over the Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland. This image was taken in a single 5 second exposure by the photogra...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: JWST Images The Lion's Head Nebula 🪐
>Are we looking at the future of our Sun? The James Webb Space Telescope captured today’s composite image of the Lion’s Head Nebula (NGC 2392) with its NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The Lion’s Head ...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Earth's Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses 🪐
>What’s creating this giant hole in space? This is not a black hole — it’s a shadow. It’s Earth’s shadow. Since at least the time of Aristotle, people have noted that Earth's dark shadow on the Moo...
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Mostly Perseids 🪐
>Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in Czechia were aligned and combined to create this all-night, all-sky view....
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Elephant's Trunk in Cepheus 🪐
>Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula winds through the emission region and young star cluster complex IC 1396, in the high and far off constellation of Cep...