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Back to Search2024 July 07 - Iridescent Clouds over Sweden
In today's image, we see iridescent clouds in Earth's atmosphere. These occur when sunlight is diffracted off of similar sized water drops in thin cl…
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2024 July 06 - Caroline's Rose
In today's image, we see the star cluster known as Caroline's Rose. The cluster is named for its discoverer, Caroline Herschel who found this cluster…
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2024 July 05 - Mount Etna Milky Way
In today's image, we see Mount Etna here on Earth and our Milky Way up in the sky. The Milky Way is our own spiral galaxy as we see it from within.
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2024 July 04 - A Beautiful Trifid
In today's image, we see the Trifid Nebula, also known as M20. This is a part of a stat forming region and shows the different types of nebulae that …
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2024 July 03 - M83: Star Streams and a Thousand Rubies
In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as M83. This is an example of a spiral galaxy and shows the signs of extensive star formation, inclu…
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2024 July 02 - NGC 602: Oyster Star Cluster
In today's image, we see the Oyster Star Cluster also known as NGC 602. This is a young star cluster and parts of it are still forming. We will see t…
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2024 July 01 - Time Spiral
In today's image, we see a spiral which shows the history of the entire universe in one spiral. It starts with the Big Bang at the center and then hi…
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2024 June 30 - Earthrise: A Video Reconstruction
In today's image, we see a video put together from the famous Earthrise photo taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts. This is what would have been seen by …
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2024 June 29 - A Solstice Moon
In today's image, we see the path of the full moon across the sky from about one week ago. This is the summer solstice moon which is very low in the …
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2024 June 28 - Comet 13P/Olbers
In today's image, we see a comet. In many ways, this is much like Halley's Comet. Olber's Comet orbits the Sun just a little faster than Halley's com…
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