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Back to Search2025 April 17 - Virgo Cluster Galaxies
In today's image, we see the Virgo galaxy cluster, the nearest large galaxy cluster to our own local group of galaxies. This includes the giant ellip…
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2025 April 16 - Halo of the Cat's Eye
In today's image, we see the Cat's Eye nebula. The is an example of a planetary nebula. Here we look at an image which enhances the outer layers to m…
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2025 April 15 - Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb
In today's image, we see a planetary nebula as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. A planetary nebula is the end state of a star much like our …
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2025 April 14 - The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT
In today's image, we see the region around the center of our galaxy as imaged by an array of radio telescope in South Africa. The inset image is a sm…
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2025 April 13 - An Unusual Hole in Mars
In today's image, we see a region of Mars including a hole where a meteor may have punched a hole through the Martian surface and into some caverns b…
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2025 April 12 - Moon Near the Edge
In today's image, we see our Moon near the edge of a building in Manhattan. The moon is bright enough to be visible in the day, especially during cer…
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2025 April 11 - The ISS Meets Venus
In today's image, we see a thin crescent Venus and the International Space Station as they pass close to one another in the sky.
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2025 April 10 - 38 hours with the M81 Group
In today's image, we see a deep exposure of the M81 group of galaxies. The two most prominent galaxies here are in the slow process of a galaxy merge…
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2025 April 09 - HH 49: Interstellar Jet from Webb
In today's image, we see HH 49, a Herbig-Haro object caused by the jet of material being expelled from eh region around a young star. The object at t…
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2025 April 08 - Moon Visits Sister Stars
In today's image, we see the moon in conjunction with the Pleiades star cluster. These conjunctions (and occultations) will occur over the next few y…
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