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Windblown NGC 3199

2021 May 6

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Sea and Sky Glows over the Oregon Coast

Every step caused the sand to light up blue. That glow was bioluminescence -- a blue radiance that also lights the surf in this surreal scene captured last month at Meyer's Creek Beach in Oregon, USA.

Astronomy Picture of the Day: LL Ori and the Orion Nebula

Stars can make waves in the Orion Nebula's sea of gas and dust. This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow

Forgotten Boat

A conjunction of Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn appears near the center of the milky way as viewed from Lake Urmia.

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