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about 2 hours ago
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๐ SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 104 ๐ช
A gorgeous spiral galaxy, Messier 104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Seen in silhouette against an extensive centralโฆ
@iotman
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1 day ago
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๐ SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1514: The Crystal Ball Nebula ๐ช
What do you see in this crystal ball? The featured image shows NGC 1514, known as the Crystal Ball Nebula, observed by the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea, in Hawai'i. NGC 1514 is 1,500 ligh
@iotman
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3 days ago
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๐ SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 3660 and Burรงin's Galaxy ๐ช
The upper galaxy might be more photogenic, but the lower galaxy is more unusual. The galaxy up top is NGC 3660, a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy in that it has several bri
@iotman
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4 days ago
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๐ SpacePicture of a Day: Thackeray's Globules ๐ช
What are these strange space globs? Situated in rich star fields and glowing hydrogen gas, these opaque clouds of interstellar dust and gas are so large they might be able to form stars. Their home
@iotman
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6 days ago
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๐ SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 2 ๐ช
After the Crab Nebula, this giant star cluster is the second entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous list of things that are not comets. M2 is one of theโฆ
@iotman
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7 days ago
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๐ SpacePicture of a Day: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 ๐ช
This cosmic snapshot covers a field of view over twice as wide as the full Moon within the boundaries of the high-flying constellation Cygnus. Made using astronomical narrowband filters, the image h
@iotman
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8 days ago
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๐ SpacePicture of a Day: A Collision of Galaxy Clusters ๐ช
This big beautiful spiral shines in X-ray light. It is about 20 times larger than our Galaxy. It belongs to Abell 2029, a galaxy cluster one billion light-years away. (To seeโฆ
@iotman
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9 days ago
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๐ SpacePicture of a Day: The Dark Wolf Nebula ๐ช
A dark wolf lies in gum. No, this isnโt a riddle! Today's image features the Dark Wolf Nebula (SandqvistโLindroos 17), a spooky dust cloud embedded within the Gum 55 (RCW 113)โฆ
@iotman
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10 days ago
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๐ SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 2170: The Angel Nebula ๐ช
Is this a painting or a photograph? In this celestial abstract art composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170, also known as the Angel Nebula, shines just above the image center. Reflecting
@iotman
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11 days ago
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๐ SpacePicture of a Day: Unraveling NGC 3169 ๐ช
Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years away, south of bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans. Wound up
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