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Clouds and the Golden Moon

By |2025-07-12T13:44:25-04:00July 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day As the Sun set, a bright Full Moon rose on July 10. Its golden light illuminates clouds drifting through southern hemisphere skies in this well-composed telephoto image from Conceição do Coité, Bahia, Brazil. The brightest lunar phase is captured here with both a short and long exposure. The two exposures [...]

Ice Clouds over a Red Planet

By |2024-12-03T08:09:07-05:00December 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day If you could stand on Mars -- what might you see? You might look out over a vast orange landscape covered with rocks under a dusty orange sky, with a blue-tinted Sun setting over the horizon, and odd-shaped water clouds hovering high overhead. This was just the view captured last [...]

NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda

By |2024-11-28T08:09:06-05:00November 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The large stellar association cataloged as NGC 206 is nestled within the dusty arms of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy along with the galaxy's pinkish star-forming regions. Also known as M31, the spiral galaxy is a mere 2.5 million light-years away. NGC 206 is found at the center of this sharp [...]

Undulatus Clouds over Las Campanas Observatory

By |2024-11-19T08:09:06-05:00November 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening with these clouds? While it may seem that these long and thin clouds are pointing toward the top of a hill, and that maybe a world-famous observatory is located there, only part of that is true. In terms of clouds, the formation is a chance superposition of impressively [...]

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