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Clouds of the Carina Nebula
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Centaurus A's Warped Magnetic Fields
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Eons Path (LDN 1235)
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Jupiter and the Moons
After sunset on October 3, some of the Solar System's largest moons stood low along the western horizon with the largest planet.
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Eye Sky a Dragon
What do you see when you look into this sky?
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La Silla Eclipse Sequence
The road to the high mountaintop La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert also led to totality in the path of July 2nd's total solar eclipse.
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The Longer Days
This persistent six month long exposure compresses the time from solstice to solstice (December 21, 2018 to June 16, 2019) into a single point of view.
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Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited
This close-up was taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: A Rainbow Geminid Meteor
Meteors can be colorful. While the human eye usually cannot discern many colors, cameras often can.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Unexpected Trajectory of Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua
Why is 'Oumuamua differing from its expected trajectory? Last year, 1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua became the first known asteroid from interstellar space to pass through our Solar System.
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