NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see 12 images of our Moon showing the 12 full moons of 2022. The full moon occurs about once a month when the Moon is opposite to our Sun in the Sky. This year, there will be 13 full moons so they will not easily fit on the clock!

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In today's image, we see the Pleiades star cluster. This is an example of an open star cluster which is currently passing through a dust cloud which creates a reflection nebula where the blue light from the stars is preferentially scattered.

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In today's image, we see a spiral galaxy and a cometary globule. While it may appear that the globule will devour the galaxy, the globule is actually much smaller and is a part of our own galaxy that just happens to be placed along the line of sight toward the more distant galaxy.

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In today's image, we see Kemble's Cascade of Stars - an asterism or grouping of stars visible in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe). We see here that stars here have different colors which signify their temperatures. Red stars are cooler than our Sun while the blue stars are hotter.

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In today's image, we see the planets in the night sky just after sunset. Venus has recently made its transition from Morning Star to Evening Star and will become more prominent in the evening sky over the spring. Saturn will be slowly sinking toward the Sun and will be less visible. But, a chance now to see a good number of the planets in the evening sky just after sunset!

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In today's image, we see the largest rock in our solar system. There are many objects with solid surfaces in the solar system, but our own Earth is the largest of these.

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In today's image, we see an artist's conception of what the dwarf planet Makemake might look like as we look back towards our Sun off in the distance. Makemake was found to have a moon several years ago as shown in the drawing.

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In today's image, we see the planet Mars, also known as the Red Planet as it passes through the constellation of Taurus the bull. Also seen in the image are two oven star clusters in Taurus, The Hyades and the Pleiades.

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In today's image, we see a part of the Orion star forming region near the belt of Orion. We se the star Alnitak, one of the three bright stars in Orion's Belt as well as the Horsehead Nebula, a dark nebula. The other nebulae seen are the Flame Nebula which is an emission nebula and a reflection nebula.

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In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy Messier 88. This galaxy is similar to our own Milky Way in terms of size, but is far away ar about 50 million light years. This gives us a view of what an astronomer in another civilization in this distant galaxy might see looking toward our own Milky Way.

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