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Young Moon and Sister Stars

By |2026-04-24T16:44:26-04:00April 24th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Sunlit arms of a crescent moon seem to embrace the faint lunar night side in this dramatic celestial view from planet Earth. The single telephoto exposure tracking the sky was captured on the night of April 19, when a two day old Moon was near perigee in its elliptical orbit. [...]

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 [...]

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