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The Dusty Surroundings of Orion and the Pleiades

By |2026-03-02T15:44:24-05:00March 2nd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How well do you know the night sky? OK, but how well can you identify famous sky objects in a very deep image? Either way, here is a test: see if you can find some well-known night-sky icons in a deep image filled with filaments of normally faint dust and [...]

The Light, Dark, and Dusty Trifid

By |2024-08-10T09:09:22-04:00August 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Messier 20, popularly known as the Trifid Nebula, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light from hydrogen atoms, blue reflection [...]

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