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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Blue Banded Blood Moon 🪐 What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week's lunar eclipse, however -- taken fro

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 81 🪐 One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth's sky is similar in size to our Milky Way Galaxy: big, beautiful Messier 81. Also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's galaxy for its 18th century discoverer, this

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3 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Star Formation in the Pacman Nebula 🪐 You'd think the Pacman Nebula would be eating stars, but actually it is forming them. Within the nebula, a cluster's young, massive stars are powering the pervasive nebular glow. The eye-

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about 16 hours ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Lunar Dust and Duct Tape 🪐 Why is the Moon so dusty? On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand. On the Moon, eons of constant micrometeorite bombardment have blasted away at the rocky surface crea

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: SuperCam Target on Ma'az 🪐 What's the sound of one laser zapping? There's no need to consult a Zen master to find out, just listen to the first acoustic recording of laser shots on Mars. On Mars Rover…

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about 1 month ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Light Pillar over Erupting Etna 🪐 Can a lava flow extend into the sky? No, but light from the lava flow can. One effect is something quite unusual -- a volcanic light pillar. More typically, light pillars are caused b

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about 1 month ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 87 🪐 rmous elliptical galaxy Messier 87 is about 50 million light-years away. Also known as NGC 4486, the giant galaxy holds trillions of stars compared to the mere billions of stars…

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about 1 month ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Thor's Helmet versus the Seagull 🪐 Seen as a seagull and a duck, these nebulae are not the only cosmic clouds to evoke images of flight. But both are winging their way across this broad celestial landscape, spanning almost

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2 months ago

Floating in the Cosmos Since I was young, I have always been fascinated by space and even though I never wanted to be an astronaut, I have always been fascinated by space suits and

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about 1 year ago

Tomatoes lost in space, but found after five months! Tomatoes lost in space, but found after five months! was The Source The tomato, which was with the astronauts, was lost shortly after the lettuce mission to the space station. But the crop

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