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Find the Man in the Moon

By |2024-09-15T09:09:09-04:00September 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , |

Photo of the Day Have you ever seen the Man in the Moon? This common question plays on the ability of humans to see pareidolia -- imagining familiar icons where they don't actually exist. The textured surface of Earth's full Moon is home to numerous identifications of iconic objects, not only in modern western [...]

Aurora Australis and the International Space Station

By |2024-09-13T09:09:06-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This snapshot from the International Space Station was taken on August 11 while orbiting about 430 kilometers above the Indian Ocean, Southern Hemisphere, planet Earth. The spectacular view looks south and east, down toward the planet's horizon and through red and green curtains of aurora australis. The auroral glow is [...]

A Night Sky over the Tatra Mountains

By |2024-09-11T09:09:10-04:00September 11th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day A natural border between Slovakia and Poland is the Tatra Mountains. A prominent destination for astrophotographers, the Tatras are the highest mountain range in the Carpathians. In the featured image taken in May, one can see the center of our Milky Way galaxy with two of its famous stellar nurseries, [...]

Mars: Moon, Craters, and Volcanos

By |2024-09-09T09:09:07-04:00September 9th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day If you could fly over Mars, what might you see? The featured image shows exactly this in the form of a Mars Express vista captured over a particularly interesting region on Mars in July. The picture's most famous feature is Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System, visible [...]

Quarter Moon and Sister Stars

By |2024-09-03T09:09:32-04:00September 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Nine days ago, two quite different sky icons were imaged rising together. Specifically, Earth's Moon shared the eastern sky with the sister stars of the Pleiades cluster, as viewed from Alberta, Canada. Astronomical images of the well-known Pleiades often show the star cluster's alluring blue reflection nebulas, but here they [...]

A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun

By |2024-09-02T09:09:35-04:00September 2nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why is there a triangle hovering over the Sun? Although the shape is unusual, the type of structure is not: it is part of an evolving solar prominence. Looping magnetic fields on the Sun channel the flow of energetic particles, sometimes holding glowing gaseous structures aloft for months. A prominence [...]

The Moon Dressed Like Saturn

By |2024-09-01T09:09:06-04:00September 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why does Saturn appear so big? It doesn't -- what is pictured are foreground clouds on Earth crossing in front of the Moon. The Moon shows a slight crescent phase with most of its surface visible by reflected Earthlight, known as Da Vinci glow. The Sun directly illuminates the brightly [...]

IFN and the NGC 7771 Group

By |2024-08-31T09:09:12-04:00August 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day Galaxies of the NGC 7771 Group are featured in this intriguing skyscape. Some 200 million light-years distant toward the constellation Pegasus, NGC 7771 is the large, edge-on spiral near center, about 75,000 light-years across, with two smaller galaxies below it. Large spiral NGC 7769 is seen face-on to the right. [...]

Tulip Nebula and Black Hole Cygnus X-1

By |2024-08-28T09:09:31-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day When can you see a black hole, a tulip, and a swan all at once? At night -- if the timing is right, and if your telescope is pointed in the right direction. The complex and beautiful Tulip Nebula blossoms about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation of Cygnus the [...]

Perseid Meteors Over Inner Mongolia

By |2024-08-26T09:09:06-04:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Did you see it? One of the more common questions during a meteor shower occurs because the time it takes for a meteor to flash is similar to the time it takes for a head to turn. Possibly, though, the glory of seeing bright meteors shoot across the sky -- [...]

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