NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see the Orion spacecraft with our Earth in the background. This was a part of the Artemis I mission to travel to our Moon and test the capabilities of the craft for future missions to carry astronauts to the Moon. The next step would be Artemis II which could be as early as the end of next year to take a crew of four astronauts around the Moon and back.

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In today's image, we see a prominent aurora from the recent solar storm that impacted Earth about ten days ago as seen in the sky over Greenland.

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In today's image, we see an occultation of the planet Venus by our Moon. An occultation occurs when one object passes directly in front of another, blocking out its light for a time. These occur because the solar system is relatively flat and objects pass close to one another in the sky. However, because of the small tilts of each orbit, they do not happen all the time.

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In today's image, we see the Crab Nebula which is the remnant of a star seen to explode from Earth nearly a thousand years ago. We are looking at two images taken 18 years apart which allows us to see the expansion of material during that time.

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In today's image, we see three of the four brightest objects in the sky in a pattern around rock here on Earth. We have Jupiter to the left, Venus above the rock, and our Moon to the right. The brightest object, our Sun, is missing from the image although it would rise an hour or so after this was taken.

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In today's image, we see the Andromeda Galaxy. This is taken with a combination of two images - a shorter exposure of the Alps in the foreground and a much longer exposure to being out the detail of Andromeda.

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In today's image, we see the waning gibbous moon (between full moon and third quarter) over the mountains of Sweden. In addition, a plane happened to be captured in the image passing in the same general direction as the Moon in the sky.

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In today's image, we see our Milky Way galaxy and a SAR (Stable Auroral Red) arc in the sky. The SAR is associated with auroral activity but does occur much higher in our atmosphere than the traditional aurora we are used to seeing.

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In today's image, we see an extremely distant galaxy and one of the most distant black holes yet discovered. At a distance of 13.2 billion light years, we see this as it was when the universe was just 3% of its current age. This gives us a look at some of the earliest black holes to have formed.

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In today's image, we see the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star seen to explode here on Earth nearly a thousand years ago. The nebula is enriched in heavier elements from the explosion which will eventually form new stars - maybe a billion years from now.

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