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Astronomy Picture Of the Day | 2021-05-20 | M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, “This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular star clusters in the northern sky. Sharp telescopic views like this one reveal the spectacular cluster’s hundreds of…

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Sol 87 NASA Mars Perseverance Hardware Mode

Sol 87 video GO TO SOL 87 VIDEO GO TO SOL 87 RAW IMAGES Pictures are worth thousand words. So, I’m just sharing all photos as captured by NASA Mars Perseverance Rover currently on the Red planet. Photo, crawled using NASA API. Really helpful delivered to my inbox. With additional steps, reflected the structured table into this post. Here’s how you can go back to the technical on how we crawl…

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NASA Astronomy Picture Of the Day | 2021-05-19 | The Jellyfish and Mars

Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring scene. In the telescopic field of view two bright yellowish stars, Mu and Eta Geminorum, stand just below and above the Jellyfish Nebula at the left. Cool red giants, they lie at the foot of the celestial twin. The Jellyfish Nebula itself floats below and left of center, a bright arcing ridge of emission with dangling…

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Sol 86 NASA Mars Perseverance On The Move Again

Sol 86 video Perseverance rolls its wheels to reveal more terrain. On Sol 86, it has moved once again and increased total distance travelled since landing to 0.21 miles / 0.34 km. At 0.01 miles per hour (0.016 kilometers per hour) the rover carefully treks the dried lakebed of Jezero crater. In the dusty and rocky terrain, progressing to a new spot, is not easy and time consuming. Each of the…

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Astronomy Picture of the Day | 2021-05-17

NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge Is our Milky Way Galaxy this thin? Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint but well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. This sharp, colorful image reveals the spiral galaxy’s boxy, bulging central…

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Sol 84 NASA Mars Perseverance Feels Like on the Moon

Sol 84 images compiled Perseverance rover is on Mars, it’s a fact. With all the raw images sent since Sol 1, nothing more raw that black and white still frames. It’s a bit of nostalgia, you can see dust hugging rocks on another planet. We’ve been to the moon, and the pictures in non-color from Mars, makes it looks similar. Mars is covered with a layer of dust that has been redistributed…

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Astronomy Picture of the Day | 2021-05-15

The Southern Cliff in the Lagoon Undulating bright ridges and dusty clouds cross this close-up of the nearby star forming region M8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula. A sharp, false-color composite of narrow band visible and broad band near-infrared data from the 8-meter Gemini South Telescope, the entire view spans about 20 light-years through a region of the nebula sometimes called the Southern…

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Sol 82 NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Sunrise Or Sunset

Sol 81, only returned 14 images. Not much and shown captures from SKYCAM and a glimpse of Mars’ moon…Or, perhaps a planet from MASTERCAM-Z camera. See below: Abrade – scrape or wear away by friction or erosion It’s hard to tell if what was captured, first image on Sol 82, it is at the time of Sunrise or Sunset. On the current raw images, there’s no time stamp attributed to it. To give…

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Astronomy Picture of the Day | 2021-05-13

The Comet, the Whale, and the Hockey Stick Closest to the Sun on March 1, and closest to planet Earth on April 23, this Comet ATLAS (C/2020 R4) shows a faint greenish coma and short tail in this pretty, telescopic field of view. Captured at its position on May 5, the comet was within the boundaries of northern constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs), and near the line-of-sight to…

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Sol 80 NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Drill Time

Shiny Drill bits, ready to churn and grind those those rocks. May it be Sedimentary (like sandstone) or igneous (formed by volcanic activity) We already know the Perseverance rover is now in Science mode. This means that more target acquisition, investigation and samples collection. In this batch of images, let’s get to look the images of the flashy drill bits. Scarce as of the moment, but,…

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Astronomy Picture of the Day | 2021-05-12

A Meteor and the Gegenschein Is the night sky darkest in the direction opposite the Sun? No. In fact, a rarely discernable faint glow known as the gegenschein (German for “counter glow”) can be seen 180 degrees around from the Sun in an extremely dark sky. The gegenschein is sunlight back-scattered off small interplanetary dust particles. These dust particles are millimeter sized splinters from…

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Sol 79 NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Robotic Arm Starts Conducting Science

Sol 79 Images on Video NASA’s newest Mars rover is beginning to study the floor of an ancient crater that once held a lake For almost a month, Mars Perseverance rover had been an instrumental linkage of the success of the helicopter Ingenuity. The technology demonstration was full on display and executed properly with Perseverance as the base station in documenting the historic powered flight…

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Astronomy Picture of the Day | 2021-05-11

Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru What’s happening behind Uluru? A United Nations World Heritage Site, Uluru is an extraordinary 350-meter high mountain in central Australia that rises sharply from nearly flat surroundings. Composed of sandstone, Uluru has slowly formed over the past 300 million years as softer rock eroded away. In the background of the featured image taken in mid-May, a raging…

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Sol 78 NASA Mars Perseverance Rover On Mars photos

Sol 78 Images on Video While Mars Helicopter Ingenuity firmly on the ground after a successful one trip Fifth Flight, Perseverance rover is active as ever with it’s local site observation. With it’s goal being an Astrobiologist, Rocks and Sands are all it take to be one. In Jezero crater there are lots of them…and what to do with them? Well, take picture of course. Samples of various formations…

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Astronomy Picture of the Day | 2021-05-10

Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158 Clusters of stars can be near or far, young or old, diffuse or compact. The featured image shows two quite contrasting open star clusters in the same field. M35, on the lower left, is relatively nearby at 2800 light years distant, relatively young at 150 million years old, and relatively diffuse, with about 2500 stars spread out over a volume 30 light years across.…

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Sol 77 NASA Mars Perseverance Rover On Mars photos

Sol 77 Images on Video Sol 77, Martian Day, is never been bright and on the images on this Sol shines brighter on Perseverance rover. It’s early autumn in Jezero Crater. Temperatures are between -81°C to -22°C cold as ever, for any human of course. But, with the rover’s radioisotope thermoelectric power generator, I don’t think the rover have to worry for heat generated from the plutonium-238…

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Astronomy Picture of the Day | 2021-05-08

Deepscape at Yacoraite In this evocative night scene a dusty central Milky Way rises over the ancient Andean archaeological site of Yacoraite in northwestern Argentina. The denizens of planet Earth reaching skyward are the large Argentine saguaro cactus currently native to the arid region. The unusual yellow-hued reflection nebula above is created by dust scattering starlight around red giant…

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