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Sky Glow Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a short video that shows both noctilucent clouds and aurora over Scotland. With crepuscular or anticrepuscular rays they would have had a trifecta!
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Skylab Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is what is quite possibly the most "iconic" picture of the Skylab space station.
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Southern Skies Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day again teases me with a view I can only barely glimpse thanks to suburban skies (and too many trees to the south).
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Assembly Required The latest entry in NASA's large image archive is a view from the Apollo era: The Vehicle Assembly Building. Used for the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets, then modified for the Shutt...
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Night Launch In this entry from NASA's large image gallery, a sub-orbital ("sounding") rocket launches from Wallops Island in Virginia.
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A Foolish Move In this image from NASA's Large Image Gallery, a small galaxy is caught in the act of "ramming" a much larger galaxy. The smaller will probably not survive, or if it survives, it will ...
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The "New" Star Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day invites us to say "howdy" to a "new" star. A nova has been found in the constellation of Delphinus. Initial estimates put it at magnitude 6, when I...
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The Stream Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day combines data from orbiting and ground-based observatories, using data from visible light and radio, to trace the origin of the Magellanic Stream: the ...
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The Razor's Edge Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the setting Moon, a Moon so thin in it's fingernail-clipping crescent that it can barely be seen as it sinks into the sea.
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Radiant Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a nice time-lapse view of the Perseids. You'll see that all the streaks seem to be coming from one central point, the radiant, or the orbital stream of...
