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Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter
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Animation: Spiral Disk around a Black Hole
What would it look like to orbit a black hole?
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Spiral Galaxy M96 from Hubble
Dust lanes seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful, detailed portrait of the center of a beautiful island universe.
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Jupiter Abyss
What's that black spot on Jupiter?
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Swimming on Jupiter
On October 29, the Juno spacecraft once again dove near the turbulent Jovian cloud tops.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Tiny Planet Timelapse
You can pack a lot of sky watching into 30 seconds on this tiny planet. Of course, the full spherical image timelapse video was recorded on planet Earth, from Grande Pines Observatory outside Pinehurst, North Carolina.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Swirls and Colors on Jupiter from Juno
What creates the colors in Jupiter's clouds? No one is sure. The thick atmosphere of Jupiter is mostly hydrogen and helium, elements which are colorless at the low temperatures of the Jovian cloud tops.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Aerosol Earth
For August 23, 2018, the identification and distribution of aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere is shown in this dramatic, planet-wide visualization.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: An Active Prominence on the Sun
Sometimes the Sun's surface becomes a whirlwind of activity.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Clash of NGC 3256
Marked by an unusually bright central region, swirling dust lanes, and far flung tidal tails, peculiar NGC 3256 is the aftermath of a truly cosmic collision.
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