NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see the aurora and constellation in the sky over the Arctic Henge in Iceland. The aurora are caused by charged particles from the Sun which follow along Earth's magnetic field toward the north and south magnetic poles. When these particles strike atoms in Earth's atmosphere, they cause it to glow, giving us the colors of the aurora.

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In today's image, we see video showing a potential future of explorers in the solar system. We will see potential exploration of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and some of their moons in this hypothetical future of visiting other parts of our solar system.

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In today's image, we see the planet Venus in the upper left corner of the image - very prominent in the night sky right now as the evening star. We also see the very thin waxing crescent moon close to the horizon. The remainder of the Moon is illuminated by earthshine, light from the Sun that strikes Earth, then Moon, then back to Earth giving a faint glow to the part of. the Moon not directly illuminated by our Sun.

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In today's image, we see Comet ZTF as it heads back to the outer solar system after passing close to our Sun in January and passing close to Earth in early February.

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In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known by its catalog designation of NGC 2841. This is a spiral galaxy with very tightly wound spiral arms and enhanced x-ray emission in a halo around the galaxy.

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In today's image, we see the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31. This is the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way and is the most distant object that can be easily seen with the naked eye. Detailed studies of Andromeda and other similar galaxies can help us better understand out own Milky Way Galaxy.

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In today's image, we see a part of the constellation of Taurus. We can see the very dusty region of star formation. Near the center is the variable star, T Tauri which is a young star and the surrounding nebula which have recently formed.

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In today's image, we see the Crab Nebula, a supernova reman at from a star that was observed to explode on Earth in the year 1054. We see the expansion of the nebula from 2008 through 2022 and can see interesting detail in the region around the central pulsar.

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In today's image, we see the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent built by the Mayans around a thousand years ago. Above in the sky, we see our Milky Way galaxy as well as the planets Saturn and Jupiter, and the bright star Antares.

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In today's image, we see the star Wolf-Rayet 124. The Wolf-Rayet stars are among the most massive stars in the universe and are the type the we expect will eventually end their lives in a supernova explosion.

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