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The Heart of the Soul Nebula

By |2025-12-09T15:44:25-05:00December 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871. About 25 light-years across, the telescopic field of view spans only a small part of the much larger Heart and Soul nebulae. At [...]

Flying Over the Earth at Night

By |2025-12-08T15:44:58-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but the featured video captured several from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and set them to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city [...]

The Sun and Its Missing Colors

By |2025-12-07T15:44:29-05:00December 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our white-appearing Sun [...]

The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae

By |2025-12-05T15:44:26-05:00December 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long. Recently discovered, they are revealed in unprecedented detail in this deep telescopic image centered on KX And and composed from over 692 hours of combined image data. In fact, KX And is spectroscopically found to [...]

Visualization: Near a Black Hole and Disk

By |2025-12-03T15:44:32-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What would it look like to plunge into a monster black hole? This image from a supercomputer visualization shows the entire sky as seen from a simulated camera plunging toward a 4-million-solar-mass black hole, similar to the one at the center of our galaxy. The camera lies about 16 million [...]

M77: Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center

By |2025-12-02T15:44:25-05:00December 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening in the center of nearby spiral galaxy M77? The face-on galaxy lies a mere 47 million light-years away toward the constellation of the Sea Monster (Cetus). At that estimated distance, this gorgeous island universe is about 100 thousand light-years across. Also known as NGC 1068, its compact and [...]

3I ATLAS: Tails of an Interstellar Comet

By |2025-12-01T15:44:25-05:00December 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How typical is our Solar System? Studying 3I/ATLAS, a comet just passing through, is providing clues. Confirmed previous interstellar visitors include an asteroid, a comet, a meteor, and a gas wind dominated by hydrogen and helium. Comet 3I/ATLAS appears relatively normal when compared to Solar System comets, therefore providing more [...]

The Surface of Titan from Huygens

By |2025-11-30T15:44:25-05:00November 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day If you could stand on Titan -- what would you see? The featured color view from Titan gazes across an unfamiliar and distant landscape on Saturn's largest moon. The scene was recorded by ESA's Huygens probe in 2005 after a 2.5-hour descent through a thick atmosphere of nitrogen laced with [...]

Globular Cluster M15 Deep Field

By |2025-11-26T15:44:29-05:00November 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright globular cluster M15. The central ball of over 100,000 stars is a relic from the early years of our Galaxy, and continues to orbit the Milky Way's center. M15, one of about 150 globular clusters remaining, is noted for being easily [...]

Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way

By |2025-11-25T15:44:24-05:00November 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What did Comet Lemmon look like when it was at its best? One example is pictured here, featuring three celestial spectacles all at different distances. The closest spectacle is the snowcapped Meili Mountains, part of the Himalayas in China. The middle marvel is Comet Lemmon near its picturesque best early [...]

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