NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see our Milky Way galaxy to the left as it appears to blossom into a bright green and red flower. What may appear to be a flower is actually an aurora - which occurs when charged particles from our Sun, funneled by Earth's magnetic field, strike earth's atmosphere and cause the atoms within it to glow.

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In today's image, we see light echoes of x-rays from the gamma ray burst that was observed a week ago. The echoes were caused by reflection of x-rays off of dust in our Milky Way galaxy as they passed though it on the way to Earth.

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In today's image, we see and example of a barred spiral galaxy known by the catalog designation of NGC 1300. A barred spiral galaxy has a bar running through the center and the spiral arms appear to start from the end of the bar. The reason for the formation of a bar like this in galaxies is still a topic of research.

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In today's image, we see the Gamma Ray Burst which occurred last Sunday identified as GRB 221009A. This is believed to be caused by the collapse of a star into a black hole, giving off immense amounts of energy.

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In today's image, we see a Falcon 9 rocket as it rises from the surface of Earth passing in front of the full moon known as the Hunter's Moon. The distortion of the Moon seen near the bottom is caused by the shockwaves from the rocket changing the way light passes through the atmosphere.

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In today's image, we see an image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showing dust shells around the Wolf-Rayet star - WR 140. This is actually a binary system where the stars pass closer together about every eight years possibly leading to the creation of the shells.

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In today's image, we see the Giant Squid Nebula which is formed from the outflow of material from a triple system of three massive stars located near its center.

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In today's image, we see the Pelican Nebula which is a star forming region. In it, we see the dust and gas from which new stars are being formed. At the tip of one pillar, we see a Herbig-Haro object, also associated with newly formed stars.

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In today's image, we see a double lunar analemma. An analemma occurs when you take an image of an object when it gets back to the same point in the sky each day. So, this would be at the same time of day for our Sun. For the Moon, it would be 50 minutes later each day that it would return to the same place in the sky.

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In today's image, we see an image showing the aurora over Northern Canada. The aurora are caused when charged particles from the Sun strike Earth's magnetic field and are funneled to the poles. When the p[articles strike oxygen atoms, they can emit a green glow as seen here.

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