NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see the galaxy known as JADES-GS-z14-0. This galaxy, recent imaged by the James Webb Space telescope is now known to be the most distant galaxy ever observed. The galaxy is seen about 300 million years after the Big Bang, just a fraction of the age of the universe.

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In today's image, we see the planet Saturn as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft back in 2005. We can see the shadows of the rings against the upper part of Saturn. We can also see the blue color (slightly enhanced) caused by scattering from molecules in the atmosphere of Saturn.

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In today's image, we see LDN 1251 one of the objects in the catalog of dark nebulae. This is a start forming region in the early stages where stars are just beginning to form within the dark, dusty knots.

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In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as NGC 1546 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope just a week ago. Hubble is using a new pointing system to help keep the telescope pointed accurately even as the accuracy of its gyroscopes degrade over time.

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In today's image, we see the dog, Sandy by the gate off to the right. Up in the sky, we see the full moon from April. Ice crystals in the atmosphere form the halo around the Sun. There is another full moon just a day or so from now. Today is the summer solstice when the Sun reaches its highest point above the celestial equator.

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In today's image, we see the Dragons of Ara. These are, in fact, bpetterns of gas and dust seen in the constellation of Ara, the altar. The patterns are sculpted by hot, young stars which have formed.

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In today's image, we see large jets of lightning reaching upward from the storm clouds in the distance into Earth's ionosphere. The tops of these bear a resemblance to the red sprites we have looked at in previous images. This rare lightning is less understood than the more common cloud to cloud to cloud to ground lightning.

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In today's image, we see what is known as the Giant Squid nebula. This is an emission region that we see in the blue. With the blue color from the specific wavelength of light produced by doubly-ionized oxygen atoms.

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In today's image, we will watch a video animation showing a black hole ripping apart a star which passes too close to it. We see it form an accretion disk around the black hole as well as a pair of jets perpendicular to this disk.

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In today's image, we seethe active Sun in an image taken a month ago. Here we see the Sun in the light of hydrogen. There are many filaments across the surface as well as prominences along the limb of the Sun. These are essentially the same thing, just observed from a different perspective.

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