NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see the planet Venus as imaged from the Akatsuki spacecraft which entered Venus' orbit in 2015 after an extended journey around the inner solar system after the first attempted orbital insertion was unsuccessful.

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In today's image, we see the planet Venus as imaged from the Akatsuki spacecraft which entered Venus' orbit in 2015 after an extended journey around the inner solar system after the first attempted orbital insertion was unsuccessful.

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In today's image, we see an image from Antarctica which shows our Milky Way galaxy as well as the two Magellanic Clouds, We also see the aurora, in the case Aurora Australis or the Southern Lights.

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In today's image, we see three galaxies in the constellation which compose a compact group of galaxies. We have spiral galaxies on either side and an elliptical galaxy in the center. The spiral to the left is see nearly face-on while the one to the right is seen edge-on.

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In today's image, we see our inner solar system with the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars identified. The other orbits are those of more than a thousand Potentially Hazardous Asteroids. These are asteroids that are large enough to cause significant damage if there were to impact Earth as well as having an orbit that will bring them close enough to Earth to make them a potential danger.

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In today's image, we see a diagram showing how we are now able to detect low frequency gravitational waves from merging supermassive black holes. This is done by measuring the timing of many different pulsars as gravitational waves cause a ripple in spacetime which slightly changes the pulsar timing. The field of gravitational wave astronomy is relatively new, having only been detected for the first time in the past decade.

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In today's image, we see a region of our galaxy where the dust concentration is lower allowing us a view into more distant parts of our galaxy than would otherwise be visible. Dust blocks out much of the light from distant stars in our galaxy, making them essentially invisible.

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In today's image, we see two images of Mars from MAVEN: The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN spacecraft. This craft has been in orbit around Mars for nearly a decade giving us information about the atmosphere of the red planet.

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In today's image, we see the Belt of Venus. This is the dividing region between the Earth's shadow on the atmosphere and the portion of the atmosphere directly illuminated by sunlight. This is easily visible right before sunrise or right after sunset when looking opposite to the direction of the Sun in the sky.

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In today's image, we see a flash of lightning in the clouds of Jupiter's atmosphere as imaged by the Juno spacecraft currently in orbit around Jupiter. Lighting has been seen on several other planets and is thought to occur on all planets with an atmosphere. Juno will be studying the night side of Jupiter over the next few months and should get more chance to observe and study lightning on the giant planet.

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