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Back to Search2023 December 30 - The Last Full Moon
In today's image, we see the last full moon of 2023 very close to the horizon. The distortions are causes by refraction from different layers of Eart…
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2023 December 29 - Shakespeare in Space
In today's image, we see the planet Uranus as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. Uranus is interesting as it orbit the Sun on its side, but al…
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2023 December 28 - Jupiter and the Geminid
In today's image, we see Jupiter, the largest of the planets in the solar system off to the right side of the image. In addition, we see one of the G…
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2023 December 27 - Rainbow Aurora over Icelandic Waterfall
In today's image, we see a multicolored aurora in the sky over a waterfall in Iceland. Above this is the Milky Way - our own galaxy as we see it from…
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2023 December 26 - IC 443: The Jellyfish Nebula
In today's image, we see the supernova remnant known as the Jellyfish Nebula. This is an example of a remnant of a Type II supernova which occurs at …
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2023 December 25 - Cathedral, Mountain, Moon
In today's image, we see an alignment of three objects - The Cathedral in front of the distant mountain here on Earth - timed so that the Moon was ri…
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2023 December 24 - NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
In today's image, we see a young planetary nebula which is the end state of a star much like our own Sun. The core has collapsed down to an extremely…
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2023 December 23 - A December Summer Night
In today's image, we see an image from a nice summer night in December in New Zealand. Since seasons on Earth are opposite, winter is currently start…
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2023 December 22 - 183 Days in the Sun
In today's image, we see a 183 day exposure of the Sun using a pinhole camera. This shows the position of the Sun over the course of the 6 month peri…
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2023 December 21 - Three Galaxies and a Comet
In today's image, we see three galaxies which are relatively close together in the sky along with a comet passing that same general direction in spac…
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