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about 16 hours 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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🌌 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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3 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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4 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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5 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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8 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet R3 PanSTARRS and Orion 🪐 Orion never had a sword like this. As Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) heads out of the inner Solar System, it is putting on quite a show for long exposure cameras. Currently seen toward

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9 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier Craters in Stereo 🪐 Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky are associated with the name of astronomer Charles Messier from his famous 18th century catalog. His name is also given to these

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet R3 PanSTARRS Before Rigel 🪐 Which way is Comet R3 PanSTARRS going? Not towards the star at the top of the image, because that is Rigel, which, being far in the background, is unrelated to the comet. Not through the nebu

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12 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Retrograde Dance of Saturn and Neptune 🪐 What does it mean for Saturn and Neptune to be in retrograde? Featured is a composite of images taken over 34 nights from May 2025 to February 2026 tracing Saturn (bright

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Trifid Pillars and Jets 🪐 Dust pillars are like interstellar mountains. They survive because they are more dense than their surroundings, but they are slowly being eroded away by a hostile environment. Visible in the fe

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