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Cygnus constellation Crescent nebula & tulip nebula ( sh2 101 ) Sadr gamma cygnus
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Apollo 17: The Crescent Earth
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Da Vinci Rise
An old Moon rose this morning, its waning sunlit crescent shining just above the eastern horizon before sunrise.
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Saturn at Night
Telescopes can only bring Saturn's day into view.
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NGC 7129 and NGC 7142
The two appear separated by only half a degree on the sky, but they actually lie at quite different distances.
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Lenticular Clouds over Mount Etna
What's happening above that volcano?
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Mimas in Saturnlight
Peering from the shadows, the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Mimas lies in near darkness alongside a dramatic sunlit crescent.
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Crescent Saturn
Saturn never shows a crescent phase from Earth.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Shipwreck at Moonset
A crescent Moon is about to sink under the western horizon in this sea and night skyscape.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain
This is a gibbous Moon. More Earthlings are familiar with a full moon, when the entire face of Luna is lit by the Sun, and a crescent moon, when only a sliver of the Moon's face is lit.
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