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An Iridescent Pileus Cloud over China

By |2022-09-06T14:09:11-04:00September 6th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Yes, but how many dark clouds have a multicolored lining? Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. The featured image was taken last month in [...]

Carina Cliffs from the Webb Space Telescope

By |2022-09-05T13:55:08-04:00September 5th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Stars created these cliffs. Specifically, the destructive winds and energetic light from the stars in the open cluster NGC 3324 eroded away part of a mountain of dark interstellar dust in the northern part of the Carina Nebula. Several of these stars are visible toward the top of this highly [...]

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