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Back to Search2024 January 29 - The Pleiades: Seven Dusty Sisters
In today's image, we see the Pleiades Star Cluster. This is a prominent star cluster located in the constellation of Taurus. Currently, a dust cloud …
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2024 January 28 - Pluto in True Color
In today's image, we see the dwarf planet Pluto as imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft back in 2015. The image has been processed to reveal what Pl…
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2024 January 27 - Full Observatory Moon
In today's image, we see the full moon rising beyond the telescopes in the mountains of Chile is the Las Campanas observatory. The full moon in Janua…
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2024 January 26 - Epsilon Tauri: Star with Planet
In today's image, we see the star known as Epsilon Tauri. This relatively nearby star is known to have a planet orbiting it which is larger than Jupi…
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2024 January 25 - Jyväskylä in the Sky
In today's image, we see the sky above the city of Jyväskylä in Finland. The Pilars of light in the sky that are seen here are from street lights in …
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2024 January 24 - Earth and Moon from Beyond
In today's image, we see our Earth and Moon as images from the Artemis I mission from 2022. This was a craft sent out beyond the Moon and then return…
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2024 January 23 - Deep Nebulas: From Seagull to California
In today's image, we see a part of the sky near the constellations of Orion and Taurus. This deep image, incorporating over 800 hours' worth of expos…
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2024 January 22 - Shadows of Mountain and Moon
In today's image, we see the first quarter moon above a mountain. Here we can see the similar shadows of both objects. We note that the right side is…
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2024 January 21 - The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938
In today's image, we see massive snow drifts from a storm that struck Michigan's Upper Peninsula 86 years ago this week. This is not the overall leve…
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2024 January 20 - Falcon Heavy Boostback Burn
In today's image, we see the boost back burn of the side boosters of a Falcon Heavy rocket as they returned to Earth on December 28 of last year. The…
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