NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see our planet Earth as seen yesterday from the Orion spacecraft as it travels to our Moon. This mission is a part of NASA's deep space exploration systems which will hopefully again allow us to land humans on our Moon and perhaps Mars in the future. The craft will be flying by our Moon just a few days from now.

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In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known by the catalog designation of NGC 1097. The galaxy shows the distinct blue spiral arms and pink glow of hydrogen associated with recently formed stars in the spiral galaxy. There is also a companion galaxy present, appearing to be wrapped in the spiral arms of the larger galaxy. Finally, we see some tidal streams where previous small galaxies are disrupted and consumed by the larger galaxy.

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In today's image, we see Wolf's Cave Nebula. This is a region of space containing different types of nebulae, including a reflection nebula, a dark nebula, a planetary nebula, and a supernova remnant.

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In today's image, we see the Wizard Nebula, also known as NGC 7390. This is an example of a star forming region where the young stars not only illuminate the gas but also shape the gas with their powerful stellar winds giving us a temporary view of, perhaps, a wizard.

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In today's image, we see, not a UFO, but the crash of the Genesis capsule in the Utah Desert. This craft was returning from collecting particles from the solar wind for analysis on Earth when the parachute failed to open causing it to crash into the ground. Fortunately, much of the sample survive the crash and was able to be studied.

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In today's image, we see the skyline of New York City and above in the sky, we see the eclipsed Moon, the Pleiades star cluster, the bright star Sirius, the planet Mars. We also see the constellations of Orion and Taurus as well as the trail of the International Space Station.

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In today's image, we see the fully eclipsed Moon just before it passes in front of the ice giant known as Uranus. This is an example of an occultation when is when one astronomical object passes directly in front of another one.

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In today's image, we see three images from the total lunar eclipse of November 8 of this year. The middle image is of the deeper part of the eclipse when Moon was furthest into Earth's shadow. The other two are of Moon when it enters and exits the umbra of Earth's shadow.

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In today's image, we see Wolf-Rayet star 18 and its surrounding nebula. The nebula is asymmetric - brighter to the upper right and fainter to the lower left. While this was originally believed to be cause by the motion of the star, more recent measurements show that it is more likely due to differences in density of the interstellar medium in different parts of the nebula.

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In today's image, we see Wild's Triplet which contains three spiral galaxies which appear to be interacting with each other. However, it has been found that only the two larger galaxies (with the bridge between them) are actually interacting. The third spiral is not associated with these and is actually much further away.

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