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NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans
Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 can be found in the southern constellation of the flying fish, (Piscis) Volans. Located about...
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M78: Reflecting Blue in a Sea of Red
In the vast Orion Molecular Cloud complex, several bright blue nebulas are particularly apparent. Pictured here in the...
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Orion's Treasures over Snowy Mountains
Rising over a frozen valley in the Tatra Mountains, the familiar stars and nebulas of Orion dominate this wide-field nig...
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NGC 55: A Galaxy of Nebulas
Can you see nebulas in other galaxies? Yes, some nebulas shine brightly enough -- if you know how to look. Clouds of h...
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Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars
This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose n...
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Earthset from Orion
ght billion people are about to disappear in this snapshot from space taken on 2022 November 21. On the sixth day of the...
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LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion
The silhouette of an intriguing dark nebula inhabits this cosmic scene. Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a...
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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb
A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral ga...
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Io in True Color
The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. The featured picture, an attempt to show how Io would appear i...
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CTB 1: The Medulla Nebula
What powers this unusual nebula? CTB 1 is the expanding gas shell that was left when a massive star toward the constella...
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Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope
This infrared view of Jupiter by Webb is illuminating. High-resolution infrared images of Jupiter from the James Webb S...
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Apollo 14: A View from Antares
Apollo 14's Lunar Module Antares landed on the Moon on February 5, 1971. Toward the end of the stay astronaut Ed Mitchel...
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