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Back to Search2024 September 07 - Small Moon Deimos
In today's image, we see the small moon of Mars, known as Deimos. This moon is likely a captured asteroid that happened to wander into the gravitatio…
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2024 September 06 - Ringed Ice Giant Neptune
In today's image, we see the planet Neptune as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. This is the first imaging of the rings of Neptune since the …
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2024 September 05 - NGC 247 and Friends
In today's image, we see the nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC 247. In addition, there are many other galaxies in the image, including four in a stra…
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2024 September 04 - NGC 6995: The Bat Nebula
In today's image, we see a portion of the Veil Supernova remnant known as the Bat Nebula. This is some of the debris left behind by a star which expl…
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2024 September 03 - Quarter Moon and Sister Stars
In today's image, we see the third quarter moon toward the bottom of the image and the Pleiades star cluster to the right.
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2024 September 02 - A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun
In today's image, we see a recent prominence in the shape of a triangle which was observed to be hovering over the surface of our Sun.
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2024 September 01 - The Moon Dressed as Saturn
In today's image, we see our moon as a thin, waning crescent. A thin cloud in Earth's atmosphere happens to be passing in front of our Moon, giving i…
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2024 August 31 - IFN and the NGC 7771 Group
In today's image, we see the Galaxy group containing the spiral galaxy known as NGC 7771. The two larger spiral galaxies here are interacting and wil…
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2024 August 30 - Southern Moonscape
In today's image, we see the region around the South Pole of our Moon. The region is very heavily cratered. We can see a number of older craters whic…
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2024 August 29 - Star Factory Messier 17
In today's image, we see the star forming region known as Messier 17. This is essentially a factory where stars are being created from the gas and du…
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