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πŸ”­ Meteor Dust

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January 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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πŸ”­ M104: The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared

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January 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Astronomers speculate that M51's spiral structure is primarily due to its gravitational interaction with the smaller galaxy just above it.
January 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM
different colors over 58 hours with a telescope from Lijiang, China. Anyone with a good pair of binoculars, however, can see this Whirlpool toward the constellation of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici). M51 is a spiral galaxy of type Sc and is the dominant member of a whole group of galaxies.
January 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM
The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, M51, also known as NGC 5194, is one of the brightest and most picturesque galaxies on the sky. The featured deep image is a digital combination of images taken in
January 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM
πŸ”­ M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy

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January 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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πŸ”­ Jupiter with the Great Red Spot

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January 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM
as magnetic fields open. After the main outburst, the Sun’s magnetic fields quickly reorganize.
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
views from SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), revealing how plasma at different temperatures surged upward as the eruption unfolded. Here, red highlights cooler, denser material lifted from the Sun’s lower atmosphere, while yellow traces hotter, million-degree coronal loops stretching outward
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
in late 2024 by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), whose continuous monitoring improves space weather forecasts and helps humanity better understand how solar activity affects satellites, GPS, radio communications, and power grids on Earth. The featured video blends three extreme-ultraviolet
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
What just leapt from the Sun? A towering structure of solar plasma suddenly rose from the Sun's surface and unfurled into space -- a structure so large that many Earths would easily fit within it-- marking the onset of a dramatic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). The event was captured in striking detail
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
πŸ”­ A Solar Eruption from SDO

Video Credit: NASA, SDO, AIA, Helioviewer; Processing & Text: Ogetay Kayali (MTU)

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January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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πŸ”­ Ice Halos by Moonlight and Sunlight

Image Credit & Copyright: Antonella Cicala

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January 9, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, while in the foreground is fog-engulfed Huangshan, the Yellow Mountains of eastern China.
January 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
atmosphere typically blows this dust away over the next few seconds, leaving no visible trace after only a few minutes. Much of this dust will eventually settle down to the Earth. The featured image was captured in mid-December, coincident with the Geminids meteor shower. On the upper left is
January 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
What's happening to this meteor? It is shedding its outer layers as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere and heats up. The sudden high temperatures not only cause the bright glow along the dramatic streak but also melt and vaporize the meteor's component rock and ice, creating dust. Wind in the
January 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
πŸ”­ Meteor Dust

Image Credit & Copyright: Xu Chen

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January 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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πŸ”­ IC 342: Hidden Galaxy in Camelopardalis

Image Credit & Copyright: Gaetan Maxant

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January 8, 2026 at 8:00 AM
M104, spans about 50,000 light years and lies 28 million light years away. M104 can be seen with a small telescope in the direction of the constellation Virgo.
January 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
glows brightly in infrared light. The featured image, digitally sharpened, shows the infrared glow, recently recorded by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, superposed in false-color on an existing image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in visible light. The Sombrero Galaxy, also known as
January 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
This floating ring is the size of a galaxy. In fact, it is a galaxy -- or at least part of one: the photogenic Sombrero Galaxy, one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. The dark band of dust that obscures the mid-section of the Sombrero Galaxy in visible light actually
January 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
πŸ”­ M104: The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared

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January 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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πŸ”­ Simeis 147: The Spaghetti Nebula Supernova Remnant

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January 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM
northernmost zone, and one close to Jupiter's south pole. And while Jupiter's Great Red Spot is known to be shrinking, it's still about the size of the Earth itself.
January 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM
giant's swirling cloudtops, in light zones and dark belts girdling the rapidly rotating outer planet. Jupiter's famous, persistent anticyclonic vortex, known as the Great Red Spot, is south of the equator at the lower right. But two smaller red spots are also visible, one near the top in the
January 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM