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New Comet SWAN25B over Mexico

By |2025-09-16T13:44:24-04:00September 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day A newly discovered comet is already visible with binoculars. The comet, C/2025 R2 (SWAN) and nicknamed SWAN25B, is brightening significantly as it emerges from the Sun's direction and might soon become visible on your smartphone -- if not your eyes. Although the brightnesses of comets are notoriously hard to predict, [...]

A Happy Sky over Bufa Hill in Mexico

By |2025-04-30T09:09:08-04:00April 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Sometimes, the sky itself seems to smile. A few days ago, visible over much of the world, an unusual superposition of our Moon with the planets Venus and Saturn created just such an iconic facial expression. Specifically, a crescent Moon appeared to make a happy face on the night sky [...]

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