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Star Trails over One-Mile Radio Telescope

By |2025-09-13T13:44:30-04:00September 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The steerable 60 foot diameter dish antenna of the One-Mile Telescope at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, UK, is pointing skyward in this evocative night-skyscape. To capture the dramatic scene, consecutive 30 second exposures were recorded over a period of 90 minutes. Combined, the exposures reveal a background of gracefully [...]

Lunar Eclipse in Two Hemispheres

By |2025-09-12T13:44:30-04:00September 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day September's total lunar eclipse is tracked across night skies from both the northern and southern hemispheres of planet Earth in these two dramatic timelapse series. In the northern hemisphere sequence (top panel) the Moon’s trail arcs from the upper left to the lower right. It passes below bright planet Saturn, [...]

Up from the Earth: Gigantic Jet Lightning

By |2025-09-09T13:44:31-04:00September 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's that rising up from the Earth? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early in July, astronaut Nicole Ayers saw an unusual type of lightning rising up from the Earth: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears near the center of the featured image in red, white, [...]

IRAS 04302: Butterfly Disk Planet Formation

By |2025-09-08T13:44:26-04:00September 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This butterfly can hatch planets. The nebula fanning out from the star IRAS 04302+2247 may look like the wings of a butterfly, while the vertical brown stripe down the center may look like the butterfly's body -- but together they indicate an active planet-forming system. The featured picture was captured [...]

All the Water on Planet Earth

By |2025-09-07T13:44:24-04:00September 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius. The featured illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of [...]

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