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Back to Search2024 January 19 - Jupiter over 2 Hours and 30 Minutes
In today's image, we see a number of images taken over the timespan of 2 hours and 30 minutes. This is about one quarter of a day on Jupiter which ro…
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2024 January 18 - Northern Lights from the Stratosphere
In today's image, we see an image of the aurora or norther lights as seen from an airplane. The red and green colors are both caused by the excitatio…
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2024 January 17 - America and the Sea of Serenity
In today's image, we see the command module from the Apollo 17 mission from December of 1972 against the background of our Moon. The was the final mi…
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2024 January 16 - The Orion You Can Almost See
In today's image, we see a deep image of the region around Orion. The prominent stars in Orion are there, but not as prominent as we are used to beca…
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2024 January 15 - Star Cluster IC 348 from Webb
In today's image, we see the star cluster known by its catalog designation of IC 348. Many young clusters like this are hidden by dust and not well s…
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2024 January 14 - Dragon Aurora over Iceland
In today's image, we see an aurora over Iceland which may be seen to resemble a dragon in the sky. The aurora are caused by charged particles from ou…
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2024 January 13 - Circling the Sun
In today's image, we see a circle around the Sun in the form of a 22 degrees halo caused by ice crystals in Earth's atmosphere. The planet Earth also…
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2024 January 12 - Good Morning Moon
In today's image, we see the thin crescent moon in the morning sky. This was the last day before the moon reached the new phases and started its cycl…
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2024 January 11 - Quadrantids of the North
In today's image, we see a number of meteors from the Quadrantid meteor shower. A meteor shower is named from the constellation from which the meteor…
2 years, 2 months ago
2024 January 10 - The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty
In today's image, we see a star forming region in the constellation of Cepheus. In this area, we see many different types of nebulae including red em…
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