NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see time-lapse of the total solar eclipse of April 8 of this year. We will see the Moon appear in the lower right and move to full cover the Sun, allowing us to see the solar corona.

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In today's image, we see an artist's conception of what would happen as a black hole tears apart a passing star. Once the material crosses the event horizon, nothing can be known about it. However, material will often swirl in an accretion disk as it enters the black hole, giving off energy and allowing us to detect the black hole's presence.

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In today's image, we see three Auxiliary Telescopes which are used with the VLT telescopes to simulate larger mirrors using interferometry. This allows observations from different telescope to be combined together to simulate the resolution of a much larger telescope.

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In today's image, we see an illustration of the orbit of the exoplanet WASP-43b. This is a nearby planet, less than 300 light years from Earth. It is an example of a "Hot Jupiter" - a large planet which orbits very close to its star. Measurement from the James Webb Space Telescope are helping us to learn more about the temperatures in the atmosphere of this planet.

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In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as M100 - this is an example of what is called a grand design spiral galaxy for its majestic spiral arms. We not the blue and pink color of the spiral arms. The blue is the light of many massive, hot blue stars that have formed within the spiral arms. The pick is the glow of hydrogen gas that is energized by the ultraviolet light from these stars.

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In today's image, we see the star forming region known as the Fishhead Nebula and also by its catalog designation of IC 1795. This region has been images using the Hubble Palette of colors which looks at the emission of three elements - oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur and maps them to the colors blue, green, and red respectively.

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In today's image, we see GK Per which was seen to explode as a nova back in 1901. A nova occurs when material builds up on the surface of a white dwarf star and becomes sufficient for thermonuclear reactions to ignite on the surface, temporarily brightening the star.

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In today's image, we see the comet known as Pons-Brooks which has no rounded the Sun and is beginning its journey back to the outer solar system. In addition, we see a thin crescent moon and the two planets - Jupiter and Uranus.

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In today's image, we see a very deep image of the Ring Nebula as observed by multiple large telescopes. This allows for the imaging of fainter rings around the traditional Ring Nebula we normally observe. Learning more about this type of nebula will help us to better understand the final fate of stars like our own Sun.

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In today's image, we see an all sky image of the eclipse of April 8. The outer portion shows the horizon while the central circular region shows the entire sky visible from this location. In the sky, we can see the fully eclipsed Sun as well as two planets - Venus and Jupiter with one visible on either side of our Sun.

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