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Io Eclipse Shadow on Jupiter from Juno
What's that dark spot on Jupiter?
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Water Vapor Discovered on Distant Exoplanet
Where else might life exist?
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Spitzer's Orion
Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula!
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NGC 2170: Angel Nebula Still Life
Is this a painting or a photograph?
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Noctilucent Clouds, Reflections, and Silhouettes
Sometimes it's night on the ground but day in the air. As the Earth rotates to eclipse the Sun, sunset rises up from the ground.
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The Planet and the Pipe
Now posing against our galaxy's rich starfields and nebulae, brilliant planet Jupiter shines in the night sky.
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Messier 63: The Sunflower Galaxy
A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is about 25 million light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici.
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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: Cygnus Shell Supernova Remnant W63
The ghost of a long-dead star, the W63 supernova remnant shines like a faint cosmic smoke-ring along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy toward the northern constellation Cygnus the swan.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Ultraviolet Earth from an Observatory on the Moon
Which planet is this? Earth. The featured false color picture shows how the Earth shines in ultraviolet (UV) light.
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