Monday, September 2, 2019

From the Mountains to the Moon

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Today's Astronomy of the Day shows the Moon rising over the Alps (did you know there are also Alps on the Moon?). Off to the side of...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Sisters in Shroud

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day brings us the Pleiades star cluster, visible from the naked eye to binoculars to rich-field tel...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

Orion in a Different Light

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a Spitzer Space Telescope image of Messier 42, The Great Nebula in Orion. Spitzer continues...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Cluster and Dust

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day brings us an image of NGC 7129 and NGC 7142 , a reflection (or dusty) nebula and an open clust...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Member of the List

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Messier 27, in the constellation of Vulpecula. People honor Charles Messier for his list...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

A High Bar

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day combines data from several telescopic sources to produce a stunning image of face-on barred spi...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Towards the Core

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day takes us in the direction of the galactic core: clouds of dust and gas and an galactic-orbiting...
Monday, August 26, 2019

Angel in the Unicorn

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows NGC 2170, the Angel Nebula, in the constellation of Mono
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Cruise Phase

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a short video showing the view of Earth from the Mercury-bound MESSENGER vehicle .
Saturday, August 24, 2019

The Omega

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is NGC 5139, better known as globular cluster Omega Centauri. 10 million stars in a volume of 1...
Friday, August 23, 2019

California Dreaming

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is NGC 1499, near the constellation of Perseus. Popularly known as the California Nebula, this ...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Spiral Edge

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4945 in the constellation of Centaurus.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

If We Could See Deeper

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the constellation of Orion—if we could see "deeper". What wonderful structures!...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

At the Blue Event Horizon

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a short video depicting the region around a black hole, the accretion disc of gas and dust and ...
Monday, August 19, 2019

Not a Saucer

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows a...saucer? No, lenticular clouds over Mount Etna, lit by both the fires of the volcano a...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Colony Vehicle

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day illustrates just what being a human (or a dog) means. We're more than what meets the eye!
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Early Image

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day dates from 1901. Astronomer and telescope designer George Ritchey captured this image of Messie...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Winding Star Stuff

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day brings us IC 1396, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, a complex of dust and gases and protostars ...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

The Plough and the Cows

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows falling Perseids against the background of The Plough or The Big Dipper while a herd of c...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Lunar Encounter

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Saturn about to be eclipsed by the Moon. I got to see this "live" once and it i...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Cannon Ball

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows a pulsar (a rotating neutron star) being expelled from the supernova (marked by an expand...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Out of the Radiant

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the Perseid Meteor Shower over the skies of Slovakia in 2019.
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Galactic Crackup

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 87 , NGC 3808A and NGC 3808B, post collision, showing...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

Elephant Talk

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day focuses on Messier 16 , The Eagle Nebula in the constellation of Serpens Cauda, featuring the ...
Friday, August 9, 2019

Arc of the Atlas

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the trail of an Atlas V launch from tower at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to the blue...