NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as Messier 51 in a very deep exposure consisting of 255 hours (more than 10 days!) worth of imaging. This allows us to see far more detail than would be visible in a shorter exposure. We can see the tidal streams around the galaxy as well as the red glow of hydrogen outside of this region.

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In today's image, we see an image from the Ingenuity helicopter as it flies over the Martial surface. The is the 54th flight of Ingenuity and occurred just a week ago. The ability to move above the surface makes us better able to be able to explore a wider section of the Jezero crater where both Perseverance and Ingenuity are located.

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In today's image, we see a number of Perseids from the shower of 2018. The shower occurs when Earth passes through debris left behind by a comet. When these tiny pieces of material strike Earth's atmosphere, they become meteors or shooting stars. The current meteor shower will be prominent this week, peaking on Saturday night/Sunday morning.

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In today's image, we see our Moon and the planet Jupiter as they pass close together in the sky. This is an example of a conjunction when two objects pass close together. However, even though they appear close together, the Moon is far closer than Jupiter in space!

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In today's image, we see the star forming region known as the Pelican Nebula. The patterns seen in the gas and dust are shaped by the hot, young stars that have formed and will continually change. However, the changes occur so slowly that they would not even be noticeable over a human lifetime, but would take tens or thousands of years to be noticeable.

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In today's image, we see a part of the remnant of a supernova that was seen here on Earth over a thousand years ago. The material has been expanding outward all that time and still has enough energy to excite and ionize atoms in the interstellar material that it passes though.

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In today's image, we see the nebula known as the Robin's Egg Nebula which is also known by its catalog designation of NGC 1360. This is an example of a planetary nebula which is the end state of a star much like our own Sun.

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In today's image, we see crepuscular rays above the rising full moon on August 1 of this year. The next full moon will also occur in August, making it a blue moon - the second time a full moon occurred in the month. Because of the lunar cycle, this happens only every few years.

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In today's image, we see the trail showing the launch of a Falcon rocked taking a communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit. We also see the descent burns from the return of the two booster rockets. In the foreground, we see a Redstone rocket of the type that carried Alan Shepard into space as the first American to reach space in 1961.

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In today's image, we see the galaxy known as M 82. This is a spiral galaxy an is also classified as a starburst galaxy because it is currently undergoing a burst of star formation. We also see the galactic wind that is pushing out perpendicular to the disk.

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