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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: MESSENGER's Last Day on Mercury 🪐 The first to orbit inner planet Mercury, the MESSENGER spacecraft came to rest on this region of Mercury's surface on April 30, 2015. Constructed from MESSENGER image and laser altime

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Happy Sky over Bufa Hill in Mexico 🪐 Sometimes, the sky itself seems to smile. A few days ago, visible over much of the world, an unusual superposition of our Moon with the planets Venus and Saturn created just such a

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Saturn's Rings Appear to Disappear 🪐 Where are Saturn's ears? Galileo is credited, in 1610, as the first person to see Saturn's rings. Testing out Lipperhey's recently co-invented telescope, Galileo did not know what they

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Terminator Moon: A Moonscape of Shadows 🪐 What's different about this Moon? It's the terminators. In the featured image, you can't directly see any terminator -- the line that divides the light of day from the dark of nig

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6164: A Dragon's Egg 🪐 Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the Sun. Seen at the center of the cosmic cloud, the star is a…

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Asteroid Donaldjohanson 🪐 Main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson is about 8 kilometers long and 3.5 kilometers across. On April 20, this sharp close-up of the asteroid was captured at a distance of about 1100 kilometers by t

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula 🪐 What is creating the strange texture of IC 418? Dubbed the Spirograph Nebula for its resemblance to drawings from a cyclical drawing tool, planetary nebula IC 418 shows patterns that are not

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12 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared 🪐 The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion. Long exposure, multi-wavelength imag

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24 days ago

Atlas V 551 – Project Kuiper [Live: 09.04.25; 23:00 UTC] United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas V rocket is set to launch the first 27 satellites of Amazon's Project Kuiper communication constellation into space. The Atlas V, while…

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14 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN 🪐 In late March, the comet now designated C/2025 F2 SWAN was found independently by citizen scientists Vladimir Bezugly, Michael Mattiazzo, and Rob Matson while examining publicly availabl

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