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July 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Astronomy Picture from 21/07/2000

Eros Craters And Boulders

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Dramatic close-up of asteroid 433 Eros, imaged by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft from a distance of 50 kilometers. The image shows overlapping impact craters, massive boulders, and grooves, revealing the complex surface features of this oddly shaped asteroid. A 40-meter-long boulder is prominently visible near the center.
June 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 04/01/2015

Crescent Rhea Occults Crescent Saturn

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A stunning crescent view of Saturn and its moon Rhea, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Rhea is seen as a dark orb silhouetted against Saturn's softly lit atmosphere. The rings of Saturn appear as a thin line across the center, due to Cassini's viewing angle. This image is a still from a sequence showing Rhea's transit across Saturn.
June 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 23/06/2024

The Colors of Saturn from Cassini

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Stunning close-up of Saturn's rings and atmosphere, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The image showcases the intricate details of the rings, casting shadows on the planet's northern hemisphere which appears partly blue due to light scattering. The southern hemisphere exhibits a gold hue, highlighting the planet's atmospheric complexities and the ongoing mysteries surrounding its coloration.
June 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 04/09/2010

Young Suns of NGC 7129

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Stunning image of NGC 7129, a stellar nursery 3,000 light-years away in the Cepheus constellation. Features young stars, bluish dust clouds reflecting starlight, and red Herbig-Haro objects – glowing hydrogen gas shocked by jets from newborn stars. This telescopic view spans about 40 light-years.
June 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 04/05/2007

The Iron Tail of Comet McNaught

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A grayscale image captured by the STEREO A spacecraft showcasing Comet McNaught. The comet's bright coma creates a horizontal stripe, while its dust tail stretches across a vast area (30 million kilometers). A fainter, neutral iron tail, a first-ever detection, is also visible. Bright Venus appears in the upper left corner.
June 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 18/07/2001

Mars from Earth

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Hubble Space Telescope's highest-resolution image of Mars during opposition. Shows Martian surface details: white polar ice caps, dark brown/orange sand & gravel regions, and a large dust storm erupting from Hellas Basin (lower right). This image allows for comparison of Martian & Earth weather patterns.
June 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Astronomy Picture from 19/09/2003 Galileo's Europa Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030919.html #FarewellGalileo #EuropaOcean #JupiterMission #SpaceExploration #NASA #GalileoSpacecraft #JovianSystem #PlanetaryScience #SpaceImage #Astronomy

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June 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Astronomy Picture from 19/09/2003

Galileo's Europa

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A detailed color image of Jupiter's moon Europa, showcasing its cracked and icy surface with reddish, disrupted regions (Thera and Thrace). An inset highlights a close-up view of the intricate surface details. This image is from NASA's Galileo spacecraft mission, which is concluding its journey with a planned impact into Jupiter. The image depicts the evidence found by the spacecraft for a subsurface ocean on Europa.
June 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Astronomy Picture from 07/05/2006

NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf

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Stunning false-color image of the planetary nebula NGC 2440. This nebula, resembling a butterfly, is the ejected shell of gas from a dying star, at its center lies one of the hottest known white dwarfs. Our Sun will undergo a similar transformation in billions of years. Image post-processed by Forrest Hamilton.
June 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This JWST image shows 50,000 sources of near-infrared light—each one a cosmic traveler across time and distance.
📸 Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe, R. Bezanson, A. Pagan
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June 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 17/12/2016

Southern Jupiter from Perijove 3

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Stunning close-up of Jupiter's southern hemisphere captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its third perijove. The image showcases swirling clouds, a massive white oval storm (half the size of Earth!), and intricate atmospheric details. Taken on December 11th, the view is breathtaking, highlighting the beauty and power of our solar system's largest planet.
June 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 05/09/2006

Bright Cliffs Across Saturn's Moon Dione

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A grayscale image of Saturn's moon Dione, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The surface reveals bright, wispy streaks which are actually deep ice cliffs, hundreds of meters high, formed by tectonic activity. These cliffs overlay impact craters, indicating that the tectonic events are more recent. The image shows a portion of Dione's trailing hemisphere.
June 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 29/05/2000

Olympus Mons Volcano on Mars

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A black and white image of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System, located on Mars. The image shows the volcano's massive caldera and surrounding cliffs, highlighting its immense scale. Captured by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.
June 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 02/05/2006

Sunspot 875 Flares

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060502.htm<a href="/hashtag/Sunspot875" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Sunspot875n#SolarFlarel#SpaceWeathere#SunActivityA#Astronomys#SolarProminencesm#ClassCFlares#OurSun #SpaceImagea#SolarPhysicsrPhysics
Image of the Sun taken last Wednesday in red light, showcasing sunspot region 875 (larger than Earth) erupting a Class C solar flare. The dark area in the upper right is the sunspot, while bright areas are hot regions & dark areas are cooler. Solar prominences are visible on the far left, extending from the sun's surface.
June 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 12/08/2012

Spiral Galaxy NGC 4038 in Collision

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A stunning Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038 and NGC 4039), showcasing the chaotic beauty of a galactic collision. The image reveals bright blue star clusters, reddish gas clouds, and brown dust filaments, depicting the violent yet mesmerizing process of two galaxies merging.
May 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 16/11/2024

Pluto at Night

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A stunning backlit image of Pluto's night side, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. The crescent shape reveals the planet's tenuous atmosphere and features like Sputnik Planitia (nitrogen ice plains) and the Norgay Montes (water-ice mountains). The sun is billions of kilometers behind Pluto, creating a dramatic silhouette against the black void of space.
May 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Astronomy Picture from 16/09/2015

Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150916.htm<a href="/hashtag/CeresMystery" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#CeresMysterys#DawnMissionn#DwarfPlanetr#AsteroidBeltr#SpaceExplorationl#OccatorCratero#BrightSpotsg#NASAt#PlanetarySciencey#SpaceImagea#Cosmologyosmology
A grayscale image from the Dawn spacecraft showing Occator Crater on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. Bright spots within the crater remain a mystery despite high-resolution images. A faint haze is also visible above the crater. The image is a composite from recent observations.
May 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 15/02/2005

Saturn's Moon Rhea from Cassini

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A natural-color image of Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The image highlights Rhea's heavily cratered leading hemisphere and intriguing wispy streaks, possibly long braided fractures, across its surface. The moon's tidally locked rotation is responsible for this surface asymmetry.
May 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Astronomy Picture from 21/09/2014

Saturn at Equinox

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A stunning digital composite of 75 images from the Cassini spacecraft, showcasing Saturn's rings nearly edge-on during the 2009 equinox. The rings appear dark, with a thin shadow line visible on Saturn's cloud tops. Brightly illuminated objects project long shadows, providing insights into ring particle sizes and orbital dynamics.
May 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 13/11/2013

In the Shadow of Saturn

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A breathtaking view from Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, showing the planet's night side illuminated by its rings, the E ring, Mars and Venus in the distance, and a tiny pale blue dot representing Earth and its moon. The image showcases the beauty and scale of the Saturnian system.
May 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Astronomy Picture from 11/07/2006

Crescent Rhea Occults Crescent Saturn

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A stunning crescent view of Saturn and its moon Rhea, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The thin Saturn rings are visible as a line across the center, with Rhea appearing as a dark orb against Saturn's softly lit surface. This image is a single frame from a 60-frame movie showing Rhea's transit in front of Saturn.
May 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 15/02/2005

Saturn's Moon Rhea from Cassini

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A natural-color image of Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The image highlights Rhea's heavily cratered leading hemisphere, with visible light-colored wisps, possibly long braided fractures, across its surface. Rhea's tidally locked rotation means one side always faces Saturn.
May 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Astronomy Picture from 13/08/2022

Herschel Crater on Mimas

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Close-up view of Saturn's moon Mimas, showcasing its prominent Herschel crater, a massive impact feature. The image, captured by the Cassini spacecraft, highlights subtle color variations on the surface, potentially indicating differences in composition. The contrast-enhanced false-color image reveals the crater's unique characteristics and the heavily cratered surrounding terrain.
May 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Astronomy Picture from 15/02/2015

Two Hours Before Neptune

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Voyager 2 captured this stunning image of Neptune's atmosphere two hours before its closest approach in 1989. High-altitude, light-colored cirrus clouds and their shadows are visible, a first for the time. The blue color results from methane absorbing red light, and the planet boasts the fastest winds in our solar system.
May 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM