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Back to Search2023 October 19 - A Sunrise at Sunset Point
In today's image, we see a sunrise image and, shortly thereafter, an eclipse of the Sun. We see multiple images of the Sun taken every two minutes to…
2 years, 4 months ago
2023 October 18 - Dust and the Western Veil Nebula
In today's image, we see a part of the Veil Nebula which is the remnant left behind by a star that would have been seen from Earth to have exploded 1…
2 years, 4 months ago
2023 October 17 - PDS 70: Disk, Planets, and Moons
In today's image, we see an image taken by the ALMA array of radio telescopes in Chile. The newly formed star at the center has a ring of planet form…
2 years, 4 months ago
2023 October 16 - Eclipse Rings
In today's image, we see an image of the annular solar eclipse from this past Saturday with two people silhouetted in the foreground. The annular ecl…
2 years, 4 months ago
2023 October 15 - An Eclipse Tree
In today's image, we see multiple images of the Sun on the ground created by pinhole lenses from the leaves of a tree. Here we see the crescent shape…
2 years, 4 months ago
2023 October 14 - Circular Sun Halo
In today's image, we see a halo around the Sun which is caused by ice crystals in cirrus clouds in Earth's atmosphere. Also today will be an annular …
2 years, 4 months ago
2023 October 13 - Hydrogen Clouds of M33
In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as M33 or the Triangulum Galaxy. This is one of the three large spiral galaxies in our Local Group o…
2 years, 4 months ago
2023 October 12 - Mu Cephei
In today's image, we see the star known as Mu Cephei. This is a red supergiant star which, if placed at the location of our Sun, would extend out pas…
2 years, 4 months ago
2023 October 11 - NGC 1097: Spiral Galaxy with Supernova
In today's image, we see a spiral galaxy with a recently discovered supernova marked. This is an example of what is called a type II supernova - a ve…
2 years, 4 months ago
2023 October 10 - Hidden Orion from Webb
In today's image, we see the Orion Nebula in two images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The first shows the region in the red and near infrared …
2 years, 5 months ago