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Dark Sand Cascades on Mars

By |2025-06-29T12:44:24-04:00June 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The featured image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the [...]

Rubin’s First Look: A Sagittarius Skyscape

By |2025-06-25T12:44:32-04:00June 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This interstellar skyscape spans over 4 degrees across crowded starfields toward the constellation Sagittarius and the central Milky Way. A First Look image captured at the new NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the bright nebulae and star clusters featured include famous stops on telescopic tours of the cosmos: Messier 8 [...]

In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M61

By |2025-06-24T12:44:26-04:00June 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Is there a spiral galaxy in the center of this spiral galaxy? Sort of. Image data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory, and smaller telescopes on planet Earth are combined in this detailed portrait of face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61 (M61) and its bright center. A mere [...]

W5: Pillars of Star Formation

By |2025-06-23T12:44:35-04:00June 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How do stars form? Images of the star forming region W5 like those in the infrared by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, later NEOWISE) satellite provide clear clues with indications that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges. A likely [...]

A Berry Bowl of Martian Spherules

By |2025-06-22T12:44:30-04:00June 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How were these unusual Martian spherules created? Thousands of unusual gray spherules made of iron and rock and dubbed blueberries were found embedded in and surrounding rocks near the landing site of the robot Opportunity rover on Mars in 2004. To help investigate their origin, Opportunity found a surface dubbed [...]

NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble

By |2025-06-19T12:44:24-04:00June 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is a mere 35 million light-years away, toward the northern springtime constellation Leo. Relatively bright in planet Earth's sky, NGC 3521 is easily visible in small telescopes but often overlooked by amateur imagers in favor of other Leo spiral galaxies, like M66 and M65. It's [...]

Space Station Silhouette on the Moon

By |2025-06-18T12:44:35-04:00June 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's that unusual spot on the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gibbous Moon in 2019. The featured image was taken from Palo Alto, California, USA with an exposure time of only 1/667 of a [...]

APOD is 30 Years Old Today

By |2025-06-16T12:44:29-04:00June 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day APOD is 30 years old today. In celebration, today's picture uses past APODs as tiles arranged to create a single pixelated image that might remind you of one of the most well-known and evocative depictions of planet Earth's night sky. In fact, this Starry Night consists of 1,836 individual images [...]

Meteors and Satellite Trails over the Limay River

By |2025-06-14T12:44:30-04:00June 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What are all those streaks in the sky? A galaxy, many satellite trails, and a few meteors. First, far in the distance, the majestic band of our Milky Way Galaxy runs down the left. Mirroring it on the right are several parallel trails of Earth-orbiting Starlink satellites. Many fainter satellite [...]

25 Brightest Stars in the Night Sky

By |2025-06-11T12:44:33-04:00June 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Do you know the names of some of the brightest stars? It's likely that you do, even though some bright stars have names so old they date back to near the beginning of written language. Many world cultures have their own names for the brightest stars, and it is culturally [...]

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