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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Fishing for the Moon 🪐 How big is planet Earth's Moon? Compared to other moons of the Solar System, it's number 5 on the largest to smallest ranked list, following Jupiter's moon Ganymede, Saturn's moon Titan, and Jovian m

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3 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Mostly Perseids 🪐 In this predawn skyscape recorded during the early morning hours of August 13, mostly Perseid meteors are raining down on planet Earth. You can easily identify the Perseid meteor

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4 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Perseid Meteors from Durdle Door 🪐 What are those curved arcs in the sky? Meteors -- specifically, meteors from this year's Perseid meteor shower. Over the past few weeks, after the sky darkened, many images of Persei

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5 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Giant Galaxies in Pavo 🪐 Over 500,000 light years across, NGC 6872 (bottom left) is a truly enormous barred spiral galaxy. At least 5 times the size of our own large Milky Way, NGC 6872 is the largest…

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6 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1309: A Useful Spiral Galaxy 🪐 This galaxy is not only pretty -- it's useful. A gorgeous spiral some 100 million light-years distant, NGC 1309 lies on the banks of the constellation of the River (Eridanus). NGC 1

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Asperitas Clouds Over New Zealand 🪐 What kind of clouds are these? Although their cause is presently unknown, such unusual atmospheric structures, as menacing as they might seem, do not appear to be harbingers of meteorolo

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9 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moonlight, Planets, and Perseids 🪐 In the predawn sky on August 13, two planets were close. And despite the glare of a waning gibbous Moon, bright Jupiter and even brighter Venus were hard to miss. Their brilliant close conj

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10 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules 🪐 In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now

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12 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Perseids from Perseus 🪐 Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Perseus. That is why the meteor shower that peaks tonight is known as t

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