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Back to Search2025 May 07 - Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82
In today's image, we see a pair of galaxies which are in the process of merging. Galactic mergers like this can take billions of years as the galaxie…
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2025 May 06 - The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
In today's image, we see a computer simulation of two supermassive black holes and their accretion disks in orbit around one another.
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2025 May 05 - Planet Lines Across Water
In today's image, we see lines of reflected light from planets and our Moon as seen across the surface of the Mediterranean Sea.
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2025 May 04 - Spin Up of a Supermassive Black Hole
In today's image, we see an artist's conception of the accretion disk and jet of a supermassive black hole. Recent measurements have shown that black…
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2025 May 03 - Titan: Moon over Saturn
In today's image, we see the large moon of Saturn known as Titan. This is the only moon in the solar system with a significant atmosphere and the onl…
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2025 May 02 - Young Star Cluster NGC 346
In today's image, we see a young star cluster, NGC 346, located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The energy from the hot stars in the cluster shapes th…
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2025 May 01 - MESSENGER's LAST Day on Mercury
In today's image, we see an image from the MESSENGER spacecraft. The center of this region is the expect place on Mercury where MESSENGER crashes int…
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2025 April 30 - A Happy Sky over Bufa Hill in Mexico
In today's image, we see three solar system objects in the sky which form a smiley face in the sky. These include the thin, waning crescent Moon, the…
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2025 April 29 - Saturn's Rings Appear to Disappear
In today's image, we see six images of Saturn taken from 2020-2025. Over this time, the rings system tilt changes which leads us to be unable to see …
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2025 April 28 - Gum 37 and the Southern Tadpoles
In today's image, we see the Gum 37 nebula which is part of a molecular cloud in which stars are forming. The tadpoles are regions of higher density …
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