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Streak and Plume from SpaceX Crew-2 Launch
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Atlas at Dawn
This single, 251-second long exposure follows the early flight of an Atlas V rocket on August 8.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Skygazers on the Beach
Kona, a young boxer, is a dog who loves splashing in the waves along Solana Beach near San Diego, planet Earth.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Falcon 9 Nebula
Not the Hubble Space Telescope's latest view of a distant planetary nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled even casual U.S. west coast skygazers on October 7.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Moon behind Lava Fountain
What's happened to the Moon? Nothing, but something has happened to the image of the Moon.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Dawn's Early Light, Rocket's Red Glare
If you saw the dawn's early light from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station last Friday, June 29, then you could have seen this rocket's red glare.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Rocket Plume Shadow Points to the Moon
Why would the shadow of a space shuttle launch plume point toward the Moon?
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Space Shuttle Rising
What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Enceladus in Silhouette
One of our Solar System's most tantalizing worlds, Enceladus is backlit by the Sun in this Cassini spacecraft image from November 1, 2009. The dramatic illumination reveals the plumes that continuously spew into space from the south pole of Saturn's
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