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Pink and the Perigee Moon

2021 April 30

Mid-Air Meteor and Milky Way

On September 24, a late evening commercial flight from Singapore to Australia offered stratospheric views of the southern hemisphere's night sky.

The Horsehead Nebula

The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky.

Lenticular Clouds over Mount Etna

What's happening above that volcano?

The Ghost of Jupiter's Halo

Close-up images of NGC 3242 show the cast off shroud of a dying, sun-like star fancifully known as The Ghost of Jupiter nebula.

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Astronaut Exploring: An Apollo 15 Panorama

What would it be like to explore the Moon? NASA's Apollo missions gave humans just this chance in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Astronomy Picture of the Day: NGC 1499: The California Nebula

There's even a California in space. Drifting through the Orion Arm of the spiral Milky Way Galaxy, this cosmic cloud by chance echoes the outline of California on the west coast of the United States.

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Lunar LOVE

A more creative search by a group of amateur astronomers in the Ehime Prefecture of Shikoku Island, Japan has found lunar L-O-V-E.

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Total Solar Eclipse Shadow from a Balloon

Where were you during the Great American Eclipse of 2017?

Saturn in Opposition

Saturn as seen in opposition on july 2017

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