NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see the full moon rising beyond the telescopes in the mountains of Chile is the Las Campanas observatory. The full moon in January is known as the Wolf Moon, which is what we see here.

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In today's image, we see the star known as Epsilon Tauri. This relatively nearby star is known to have a planet orbiting it which is larger than Jupiter. The planet orbits must faster that Jupiter does in our solar system as it orbits its star is a little over a year and a half.

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In today's image, we see the sky above the city of Jyväskylä in Finland. The Pilars of light in the sky that are seen here are from street lights in the neighborhood.When ice crystals are positioned correctly in the sky, we can se these pillars with show a kind of map of the nearby streets.

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In today's image, we see our Earth and Moon as images from the Artemis I mission from 2022. This was a craft sent out beyond the Moon and then returned to Earth. Artemis II, currently planned for late 2025, will take humans around the Moon and back to Earth. Artemis III, currently scheduled for late 2026 is planned to land humans on the Moon for the first time since 1972.

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In today's image, we see a part of the sky near the constellations of Orion and Taurus. This deep image, incorporating over 800 hours' worth of exposure allows us to see many of the nebulae in this region. Many of these nebulae have been the subject for APOD over the past few years.

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In today's image, we see the first quarter moon above a mountain. Here we can see the similar shadows of both objects. We note that the right side is illuminated while the left side is dark. This is caused by the fact that both shadows are created by light from our own Sun.

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In today's image, we see massive snow drifts from a storm that struck Michigan's Upper Peninsula 86 years ago this week. This is not the overall level of snow that fell, but drifts cause by high winds. The large amount of snow made roads essentially unallowable due to the amount of snow.

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In today's image, we see the boost back burn of the side boosters of a Falcon Heavy rocket as they returned to Earth on December 28 of last year. The boosters are then refueled and used for future missions. This was the fifth use of this pair of boosters.

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In today's image, we see a number of images taken over the timespan of 2 hours and 30 minutes. This is about one quarter of a day on Jupiter which rotates in a bit less than 10 hours. Jupiter is the fastest rotating of all the planets in the solar system.

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In today's image, we see an image of the aurora or norther lights as seen from an airplane. The red and green colors are both caused by the excitation of oxygen atoms in Earth's upper atmosphere with the red color from the higher layers and the green from lower layers. Both are from the upper atmosphere, well above Earth's surface.

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