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MACS0647: Gravitational Lensing of the Early Universe by Webb, Unexpected Clouds Toward the Andromeda Galaxy, APOD: 2023 January 15 M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble, APOD: 2023 January 11 Spiral Aurora over Iceland, APOD: 2023 January 10 NGC 2264: The Cone Nebula, APOD: 2023 January 9 Tails of Comet ZTF, APOD: 2023 January 8 Where Your Elements Came From, Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione, APOD: 2023 January 4 CG4: The Globule and the Galaxy, APOD: 2023 January 3 Kembles Cascade of Stars, APOD: 2023 January 2 After Sunset Planet Parade, The Asymmetric Nebula Surrounding Wolf Rayet Star 18, Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Australian Pinnacles, Stars, Dust, Pillars, and Jets in the Pelican Nebula, The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble, Star Forming Region NGC 3582 without Stars, Star Trails and Lightning over the Pyrenees, Red Sprite Lightning over the Czech Republic, Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins, Carina Cliffs from the Webb Space Telescope, The Horsehead Nebula Region without Stars, Meteor and Milky Way over the Mediterranean, M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea, Stephans Quintet from Webb, Hubble, and Subaru, Milky Way Galaxy Doomed: Collision with Andromeda Pending, Tau Herculid Meteors over Kitt Peak Telescopes, A Martian Eclipse: Phobos Crosses the Sun, First Horizon Scale Image of a Black Hole, Stars and Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula, CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe, Colorful Airglow Bands Surround Milky Way, Record Prominence Imaged by Solar Orbiter, IC 342: The Hidden Galaxy in Camelopardalis, Eta Car: 3D Model of the Most Dangerous Star Known, The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT, NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy, Hubbles Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot, The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star, Ninety Gravitational Wave Spectrograms and Counting, Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World, A High Cliff on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko, All of These Space Images are Fake Except One, The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray, SN Requiem: A Supernova Seen Three Times So Far, The Central Milky Way from Lagoon to Pipe, Dancing Ghosts: Curved Jets from Active Galaxies, Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids, Abell 3827: Cannibal Cluster Gravitational Lens, Perseid Meteor, Red Sprites, and Nova RS Oph, EHT Resolves Central Jet from Black Hole in Cen A, The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound, GW200115: Simulation of a Black Hole Merging with a Neutron Star, Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Infrared Light, IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula, A Face in the Clouds of Jupiter from Juno, The Galactic Center in Stars, Gas, and Magnetism, Lightning Eclipse from the Planet of the Goats, The Comet, the Whale, and the Hockey Stick, Streak and Plume from SpaceX Crew2 Launch, The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes, The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole, Confirmed Muon Wobble Remains Unexplained, Mars and the Pleiades Beyond Vinegar Hill, Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station, M87's Central Black Hole in Polarized Light, IC 1318: The Butterfly Nebula in Gas and Dust, Perseverance 360: Unusual Rocks and the Search for Life on Mars, Perseverance Landing Site from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NGC 2244: A Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula, Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53, Found on the Moon: Candidate for Oldest Known Earth Rock, The Magnetic Field of the Whirlpool Galaxy, Sprite Lightning at 100000 Frames Per Second, Jupiter and Saturn Great Conjunction: The Movie, Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe, Jupiter Meets Saturn: A Red Spotted Great Conjunction, Sonified: The Matter of the Bullet Cluster, Great Conjunction: Saturn and Jupiter Converge, Geminid Meteors over Xinglong Observatory, Great Conjunction over Sicilian Lighthouse, Verona Rupes: Tallest Known Cliff in the Solar System, Mars and Meteor over Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Fifty Gravitational Wave Events Illustrated, A Flight over Jupiter Near the Great Red Spot, UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble, Mars, Pleiades, and Andromeda over Stone Lions, Milky Way over the Pinnacles in Australia, NGC 5643: Nearby Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur, GW Orionis: A Star System with Tilted Rings, Biomarker Phosphine Discovered in the Atmosphere of Venus, Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk, TYC 8998 760 1: Multiple Planets around a Sun Like Star, NGC 6814: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula, Jupiter and Saturn Rising Beyond Alien Throne Rock, APOD: 2020 July 28 NGC 6188: The Dragons of Ara, APOD: 2020 July 27 Comet and Lightning Beyond Bighorn Mountains, APOD: 2020 July 26 A Flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, APOD: 2020 July 22 The Structured Tails of Comet NEOWISE, M43: Dust, Gas, and Stars in the Orion Nebula, The Galaxy, the Planet, and the Apple Tree, Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 from Hubble, Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse, Reflecting the International Space Station, Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars, Lyrid Meteors from the Constellation Lyra, NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, Wide Field: Fox Fur, Unicorn, and Christmas Tree, Wolf Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine, The Slow Dance of Galaxies NGC 5394 and 5395, Moon Corona, Halo, and Arcs over Manitoba, UGC 12591: The Fastest Rotating Galaxy Known, Orion over the Central Bohemian Highlands, The Changing Surface of Fading Betelgeuse, NGC 2392: Double Shelled Planetary Nebula, Apollo 17: A Stereo View from Lunar Orbit, Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturns Ring Plane, A Partial Solar Eclipse Sequence Reflected, Places for OSIRIS REx to Touch Asteroid Bennu, Solstice to Solstice Solargraph Timelapse, A Hotspot Map of Neutron Star J0030s Surface, N63A: Supernova Remnant in Visible and X-ray, Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe, Hoags Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy, NGC 3717: A Nearly Sideways Spiral Galaxy, Curiosity Rover Finds a Clay Cache on Mars, Night Sky Reflections from the Worlds Largest Mirror, All Female Spacewalk Repairs Space Station, A Stellar Jewel Box: Open Cluster NGC 290, NGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision, MyCn 18: The Engraved Hourglass Planetary Nebula, The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars, Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice, Water Vapor Discovered on Distant Exoplanet, Unusual Signal Suggests Neutron Star Destroyed by Black Hole, Dark Dust and Colorful Clouds near Antares, Animation: Spiral Disk around a Black Hole, Robotic Dragonfly Selected to Fly Across Titan, Noctilucent Clouds, Reflections, and Silhouettes, Anticrepuscular Rays Converge Opposite the Sun, Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited, Strawberry Moon over the Temple of Poseidon, Milky Way over Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, Unusual Mountain Ahuna Mons on Asteroid Ceres, A Live View from the International Space Station, A Volcano of Fire under a Milky Way of Stars, Young Star Cluster Trumpler 14 from Hubble, Ash and Lightning above an Icelandic Volcano, Meteors, Comet, and Big Dipper over La Palma, A Cosmic Rose: The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros, Abell 370: Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Lens, M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center, The Central Magnetic Field of the Cigar Galaxy, Comet Iwamoto Before Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903, Wide Field View of Great American Eclipse, HESS Telescopes Explore the High Energy Sky, Unexpected Trajectory Interstellar Asteroid Oumuamua, The Cave Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur, The Lagoon Nebula is Stars, Gas, and Dust, Astronaut Exploring: An Apollo 15 Panorama, Shells of Stars in Elliptical Galaxy PGC 42871, Ultraviolet Earth from an Observatory on the Moon, Hyperion: Largest Known Galaxy Proto Supercluster, Comet 12P Between Rosette and Cone Nebulas, The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral, The Lonely Neutron Star in Supernova E0102 72.3, The Suns Spectrum with its Missing Colors, Equinox: Analemma over the Callanish Stones, Total Solar Eclipse Shadow from a Balloon, Barnard 228: The Dark Wolf Nebula in Lupus, Neutrino Associated with Distant Blazar Jet, Star Trails and the Bracewell Radio Sundial, Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus, The Case of the Backwards Orbiting Asteroid, Aurora and Manicouagan Crater from the Space Station, Craters and Shadows at the Lunar Terminator, A Plurality of Singularities at the Galactic Center, Meteors, Planes, and a Galaxy over Bryce Canyon, Hubble's Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot, Flyover of Jupiters North Pole in Infrared, Fortuitous Flash Candidate for the Farthest Star Yet Seen, The Sun Unleashed: Monster Filament in Ultraviolet, The Milky Way over the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations, Moons, Rings, Shadows, Clouds: Saturn (Cassini), A Partial Solar Eclipse over Buenos Aires, Ribbons and Pearls of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1398, An Immersive Visualization of the Galactic Center, Unexpected X-Rays from Perseus Galaxy Cluster, SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California, NGC 7822: Stars and Dust Pillars in Infrared, NGC 4993: The Galactic Home of an Historic Explosion, GW170817: A Spectacular Multiradiation Merger Event, The Soul Nebula in Infrared from Herschel, A Total Solar Eclipse Close Up in Real Time, Swirling Around the Eye of Hurricane Irma, A First Glimpse of the Great American Eclipse, Panoramic Eclipse Composite with Star Trails, The Heart Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur, Stars, Gas, and Dust Battle in the Carina Nebula, Density Waves in Saturn's Rings from Cassini, North North Temperate Zone Little Red Spot, Int Ball Drone Activated on the Space Station, Celestial Fireworks: Into Star Cluster Westerlund 2, The M81 Galaxy Group through the Integrated Flux Nebula, Artistic Impression: The Surface of TRAPPIST 1f, Eclipse Across America: Path Prediction Video, M89: Elliptical Galaxy with Outer Shells and Plumes, Big Dipper Above and Below Chilean Volcanoes, Galaxy Cluster Gas Creates Hole in Microwave Background, Fast Stars and Rogue Planets in the Orion Nebula, A Dark Winter Sky over Monfrage National Park in Spain, A Solar Eclipse with a Beaded Ring of Fire, Four Quasar Images Surround a Galaxy Lens, A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana, An Active Night over the Magellan Telescopes, Cloud Swirls around Southern Jupiter from Juno, Curiosity Surveys Lower Mount Sharp on Mars, Aurora over Jupiter's South Pole from Juno, Arp 240: A Bridge between Spiral Galaxies from Hubble, Great Rift Near the Center of the Milky Way, Arp 299: Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies, Clouds Near Jupiter's South Pole from Juno, Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, Closest Star has Potentially Habitable Planet, Map of Total Solar Eclipse Path in 2017 August, Deep Magellanic Clouds Image Indicates Collisions, The New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness, Galaxy and Planets Beyond Bristlecone Pines, GW151226: A Second Confirmed Source of Gravitational Radiation, Night on Venus in Infrared from Orbiting Akatsuki, The Supernova and Cepheids of Spiral Galaxy UGC 9391, Stars and Gas of the Running Chicken Nebula, Saturn and Mars visit Milky Way Star Clouds, Webb Telescope Mirror Rises after Assembly, Mercurys Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun, Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Star Cluster, The International Space Station over Earth, Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System, Combined Solar Eclipse Corona from Earth and Space, Cancri 55 e: Climate Patterns on a Lava World, NASA's Curiosity Rover at Namib Dune (360 View), Mystery Feature Now Disappears in Titan Lake, Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the Stars, LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes, Advanced LIGO: Gravitational Wave Detectors Upgraded, A Candidate for the Biggest Boom Yet Seen, Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud, A Colorful Solar Corona over the Himalayas, The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen Sulfur and Oxygen, Earthset from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, SN Refsdal: The First Predicted Supernova Image, A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect, A Blazing Fireball between the Orion Nebula and Rigel, An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco, Assembly of The International Space Station, The Fractured North Pole of Saturn's Enceladus, Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent Flowing Water on Mars, Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and Lightning Storm, Milky Way over Bosque Alegre Station in Argentina, Global Ocean Suspected on Saturn's Enceladus, Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres, Distant Neutrinos Detected Below Antarctic Ice, Triple Conjunction Over Galician National Park, The Milky Way over the Temple of Poseidon, Flyby Image of Saturn's Sponge Moon Hyperion, Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe, Cluster and Starforming Region Westerlund 2, Vesta Trek: A Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta, Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova, The Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen, The Milky Way Over the Arizona Toadstools, Dark Craters and Bright Spots Revealed on Asteroid Ceres, Hubble 25th Anniversary: Pillars of Creation, 100 Million Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy, A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree, Comet Lovejoy before a Globular Star Cluster, The Cliffs of Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko, Eta Carinae and the Expanding Homunculus Nebula, Stars and Dust Pillars in NGC 7822 from WISE, The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud, The Protoplanetary Disk of HL Tauri from ALMA, From the Temple of the Sun to the Temple of the Moon, Space Station Detector Finds Unexplained Positron Excess, 62 Kilometers above Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko, Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster of Galaxies, An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way Topping, Holometer: A Microscope into Space and Time, Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together, Mercury's Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun, Contrasting Terrains on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko, Rosetta Approaches Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko, The Horsehead Nebula from Blue to Infrared, Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has Two Components, A Blue Bridge of Stars between Cluster Galaxies, Gliese 832c: The Closest Potentially Habitable Exoplanet, Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box, The Space Station Captures a Dragon Capsule, A Supercell Storm Cloud Forming over Wyoming, Hubble's Jupiter and Shrinking Great Red Spot, Galaxy Cluster Magnifies Distant Supernova, 2012 VP113: A New Furthest Known Object in Solar System, Cosmic Microwave Map Swirls Indicate Inflation, Warped Sky: Star Trails over Arches National Park, Gamma Rays from Galactic Center Dark Matter, Rocket, Meteor, and Milky Way over Thailand, Lunar Time Lapse Panorama including Yutu Rover, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from SDSS III, Quantum Steampunk Fantasy Fractal Landscape, Geminid Meteor Shower over Dashanbao Wetlands, Kepler 78b: Earth-Sized Planet Discovered, Venus, Zodiacal Light, and the Galactic Center, Extrasolar Super Earth Gliese 1214b Might Hold Water, NGC 5195: The Dot under the Question Mark, A Flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Noctilucent Clouds and Aurora Over Scotland, The Eskimo Nebula from Hubble and Chandra, Pluto's Newly Discovered Moons Receive Names, NGC 2170: Still Life with Reflecting Dust, Circling a Black Hole at its Photon Sphere, Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters, Rock Nest Panorama from Curiosity on Mars, The Large Magellanic Cloud in Ultraviolet, Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations, Earth's Major Telescopes Investigate GRB 130427A, Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Cluster, M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy in Dust and Stars, Comet Lemmon near the South Celestial Pole, In the Center of Saturn's North Polar Vortex, Superstorm Sandy From Formation to Landfall, A Space Shuttle on the Streets of Los Angeles, A Spiral Nebula Surrounding Star R Sculptoris, The First Color Panorama from Mars by Curiosity, Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern Night, Curiosity Before Mars: Seven Minutes of Terror, Ash and Lightning Above an Icelandic Volcano, Lightning Captured at 7207 Images per Second, Two New Hubble Quality Telescopes Gifted to NASA, Live: Watching for Venus to Cross the Sun, SpaceX Dragon Launches to the Space Station, The Flight Deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour, Earthshine and Venus Over Sierra de Guadarrama, Unusual Hollows Discovered on Planet Mercury, Bright Planets at McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope, The M81 Galaxy Group Through the Integrated Flux Nebula, The Belt of Venus Over Mercedes Argentina, The Helix Nebula from the VISTA Telescope, Opportunity Rover Spots Greeley Haven on Mars, Cygnus X: The Inner Workings of a Nearby Star Factory, The Case of the Missing Supernova Companion, Bright Star Regulus near the Leo I Dwarf Galaxy, A Wide Field Image of the Galactic Center, Hints of Higgs from the Large Hadron Collider, A Lunar Eclipse Over an Indian Peace Pagoda, Kepler 22b: An Almost Earth Orbiting an Almost Sun, Waterfall, Moonbow, and Aurora from Iceland, MACS 1206: A Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Len, Dark Matter Movie from the Bolshoi Simulation, Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact Event, Violent Sunspot Group AR 1302 Unleashes a Flare, A Young Supernova in the Nearby Pinwheel Galaxy, Rover Arrives at Endeavour Crater on Mars, Lewin's Challenge: 360 Degree Star Trails, Abell 2744: Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies, A Last Landing for Space Shuttle Endeavour, Another Nearby Supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy, Earth Rotating Under Very Large Telescopes, The Last Panorama of the Spirit Rover on Mars, The Last Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour, Time Lapse Clouds and Sky Over the Canary Islands, Gravity Probe B Confirms the Existence of Gravitomagnetism, Wonder and Mystery above the Very Large Telescopes, Echoes from the Depths of a Red Giant Star, The International Space Station Expands Again, Comet Tempel 1 from Stardust NeXT Spacecraft, Iridescent Clouds from the Top of the World Highway, Sun 360: STEREO Captures Views of the Entire Sun, Japan's Kounotori2 Supply Ship Approaches the Space Station, Mono Lake: Home to the Strange Microbe GFAJ 1, A Dark Dune Field in Proctor Crater on Mars, Huge Gamma Ray Bubbles Found Around Milky Way, The Milky Way Over the Peak of the Furnace, Comet Hartley Passes a Double Star Cluster, NGC 4911: Spiral Diving into a Dense Cluster, GRO J1655 40: Evidence for a Spinning Black Hole, Comanche Outcrop on Mars Indicates Hospitable Past, HD 10180: Richest Yet Planetary System Discovered, Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 Magnifies the Dark Universe, IRAS 05437 2502: An Enigmatic Star Cloud from Hubble, Prometheus Creating Saturn Ring Streamers, Lutetia: The Largest Asteroid Yet Visited, Companion of a Young, Sun-like Star Confirmed, Sunset from the International Space Station, Comet McNaught Becoming Visible to the Unaided Eye, The Galactic Center in Infrared from 2MASS, Clouds and Stars over Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador, The Bloop: A Mysterious Sound from the Deep Ocean, Saturn's Moons Dione and Titan from Cassini, Large Eruptive Prominence Imaged by STEREO, The Belt of Venus over the Valley of the Moon, Galaxies Beyond the Heart: Maffei 1 and 2, Spirit Rover at Engineering Flats on Mars, The International Space Station from Above, Pauli Exclusion Principle: Why You Don't Implode, Astronaut Installs Panoramic Space Window, An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturn's Calypso, Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane, Night Launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, P2010 A2: Unusual Asteroid Tail Implies Powerful Collision, Comet Halley's Nucleus: An Orbiting Iceberg, Ice Moon Tethys from Saturn Orbiting Cassini, The International Space Station Over the Horizon, Bright Sun and Crescent Earth from the Space Station, Crescent Earth from the Departing Rosetta Spacecraft, Great Observatories Explore Galactic Center, JKCS041: The Farthest Galaxy Cluster Yet Measured, The International Space Station Over Earth, The Center of Globular Cluster Omega Centauri, The Butterfly Nebula from Upgraded Hubble, CMBR Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe, NGC 1097: Spiral Galaxy with a Central Eye, The Lagoon Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars, Possible Jet Blown Shells Near Microquasar Cygnus X1, VB 10: A Large Planet Orbiting a Small Star, Forty Thousand Meteor Origins Across the Sky, GRB 090423: The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured, Jagged Shadows May Indicate Saturn Ring Particles, Star Trails over the Canada France Hawaii Telescope, Astronaut's Head Upgraded During Spacewalk, Martian Dunes and the Shadow of Opportunity, GLOBE at Night: Help Track Light Pollution, Thor's Helmet (NGC 2359) and Planetary Nebula, The Helix Nebula from La Silla Observatory, Earthgrazer: The Great Daylight Fireball of 1972, Omega Centauri: The Largest Globular Cluster Known, Barnard's Loop around the Horsehead Nebula, NGC 604: X-rays from a Giant Stellar Nursery, Methane Discovered in the Atmosphere of Mars, Welcome to the International Year of Astronomy, NGC 1569: Starburst in a Dwarf Irregular Galaxy, International Space Station: Find the Astronaut, Massive Stars Resolved in the Carina Nebula, An Apollo 15 Panorama: Astronaut Exploring, Restored: First Image of the Earth from the Moon, HR 8799: Discovery of a Multi planet Star System, Seventeen Hundred Kilometers Above Enceladus, The Double Ring Galaxies of Arp 147 from Hubble, Moons, Rings, and Unexpected Colors on Saturn, Cassini Passes Through Ice Plumes of Enceladus, Active Region 1002 on an Unusually Quiet Sun, Rosetta Spacecraft Passes Asteroid Steins, 47 Tuc: A Great Globular Cluster of Stars, Baily's Beads near Solar Eclipse Totality, The International Space Station Transits the Sun, High Cliffs Surrounding Echus Chasma on Mars, Ithaca Chasma: The Great Rift on Saturn's Tethys, Dextre Robot at Work on the Space Station, Unusual Light Patch Under Phoenix Lander on Mars, A Supply Ship Docks with the International Space Station, The M81 Galaxy Group Through the Integrated Flux, Bacteriophages: The Most Common Life Like Form on Earth, Curious Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula, New Space Station Robot Asks to be Called Dextre the Magnificent, Thirty Thousand Kilometers Above Enceladus, Planets Align Over Australian Radio Telescope Array, The Eagle Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur, Columbus Laboratory Installed on Space Station, BLG 109: A Distant Version of our own Solar System, Saturn's Moon Epimetheus from the Cassini Spacecraft, West Valley Panorama from the Spirit Rover on Mars, Quadrantid Meteors and Aurora from the Air, Unusual Silica Rich Soil Discovered on Mars, Comet Holmes from the Hubble Space Telescope, The Sloan Great Wall: Largest Known Structure, A Telescopic View of Erupting Comet Holmes, I Zwicky 18: The Case of the Aging Galaxy, SN 2005ap: The Brightest Supernova Yet Found, The Strange Trailing Side of Saturn's Iapetus, 50th Anniversary of Sputnik: Traveling Companion, A Galactic Star Forming Region in Infrared, Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years, Could Hydrogen Peroxide Life Survive on Mars, A Total Lunar Eclipse Over North Carolina, Cluster Crash Illuminates Dark Matter Conundrum, The Lagoon Nebula in Gas, Dust, Waste and Hygiene Compartment (WHC) In Flight Maintenance (IFM): As part of regularly scheduled preventative maintenance, the crew performed a manual WHC flush tank fill. C/2022 E3 (ZTF) Countermeasures System (CMS) Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) Maintenance: Today, the crew evacuated the ARED Cylinder Flywheel and vacuum Slider Track. Rigel, the Witch Head Nebula, On December 18 NASA brought the Hubble Space Telescope to bear on what should have been left of the comet and found nothing down to magnitude 25. . Its about the same speed at which grass grows! may become visible even without binoculars AstroPi: The Astro-Pi IR Hardware was transferred from Node 2 to the Columbus module. By using a post-flight analysis bag to capture any pressure relief, also known as the burp, they depressurized the flush water tank and water valve block to protect the dose pump. A solar prominence from soho 2022 january 29: The astronomy picture of the day on the nasa site continues to detail the process that produced our world and all we see around us. Astrobee: A crewmember powered on both free flyers and performed the JEM Camcorder setup for a close up view of the Astrobee Docking Station and Flyers for remote imagery ground operations. NASA Astronomy picture of the day takes everyone into a fascinatingly different dimension of the cosmos on a daily basis. Sign up to receive our exclusive E-book, delivered free directly to you inbox. Today, at 2 p.m. EST, Webb fired its onboard thrusters for nearly five minutes (297 seconds) to complete the final postlaunch course correction to Webbs trajectory. The Crab Nebula, the result . The fact that it looked simple is a tribute to all those over the years who have worked towards Webb mission success. Taken by the Cassini spacecraft almost three and half centuries later on Sept. 10, 2007. The primary mirror segments were driven 12.5 millimeters away from the telescope structure. Five satellites were deployed for the NRCSD-22 mission: GASPACS (Get Away Special Passive Attitude . 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