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A Desert Eclipse

Image Credit & Copyright: Maxime Daviron

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An empty desert is shown with rolling tan sand dunes and a tan glow to the air above. A lone tree grows in the image center. High above, the Sun glows - but the center of the Sun is blackened out by an unusual disk.
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Sprite Lightning in High Definition

Image Credit & Copyright: Nicolas Escurat

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A normal starry sky is punctuated by by several very unusually shaped red objects, known as sprites. These sprites are shown in very high details including several very well defined .
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MyCn 18: The Engraved Hourglass Planetary Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing & Copyright: Harshwardhan Pathak

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A vertical planetary nebula is shown in orange around the outside but with a blue glow in the center. The outside is shaped like a tilted hourglass, while the inside appears similar to an eye.
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IC 2118: The Witch Head Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Abdullah Alharbi

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A colorful star field surrounds a big blue reflection nebula. The nebula is elongated across the wide frame and said to resemble the head of folklore-based witch.
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Plane, Clouds, Moon, Spots, Sun

Image Credit & Copyright: Doyle and Shannon Slifer

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A partially eclipse Sun is shown. In front of the Sun are sunspots, the Moon, clouds, and an airplane.
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Hydrogen Clouds of M33

Image Credit & Copyright: Reinhold Wittich

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APOD: 2023 October 13 - Hydrogen Clouds of M33
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Circular Sun Halo

Image Credit & Copyright: Vincenzo Mirabella

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APOD: 2023 October 14 - Circular Sun Halo
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An Eclipse Tree

Image Credit & Copyright: Shawn Wyre

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A driveway is shown with a car at the top of the frame but a series of shadows across the rest of the frame. A close inspection of these shadows shows that they are frequently small images of an ongoing partial solar eclipse.
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Eclipse Rings

Image Credit & Copyright: Jerry Zhang (left), Baolong Chen (photographer) & Amber Zhang (right)

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An annular solar eclipse appears in the background with the dark Moon appearing completely internal to the bright Sun. In the foreground is a ridge with the silhouettes of two people, one standing, and one kneeling.
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PDS 70: Disk, Planets, and Moons

Image Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Benisty et al.

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An orange elliptical ring is shown that is a disk of gas and dust around the star PDS 70. In the center of the disk is a fuzzy spot and near the inner right edge of the disk is another fuzzy spot.
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Dust and the Western Veil Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Jiang Wu

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Brown glowing dust appears to the left of the blue and red filamentary gas that composes the western edge of the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant.
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A Sunrise at Sunset Point

Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Ratcliffe

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APOD: 2023 October 19 - A Sunrise at Sunset Point
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Galaxies and a Comet

Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett

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APOD: 2023 October 20 - Galaxies and a Comet
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Quarter Moons

Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace

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APOD: 2023 October 21 - Quarter Moons
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Ghost Aurora over Canada

Image Credit & Copyright: Yuichi Takasaka, TWAN

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A landscape is pictured with snow and a line of evergreen trees. In the sky is a field of stars but also notable green aurora.
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Moon Io from Spacecraft Juno

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS; Processing & Copyright: Ted Stryk & Fernando García Navarro

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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
Jupiter's moon Io is shown as photogaphred recently by NASA's passing Juno spacecraft. The moon is nearly half- lit by the distant Sun and shows a complex surface including the colors yellow, orange, and dark brown. Near the top, the plume of an active volcano can be seen.
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Arp 87: Merging Galaxies from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: Harshwardhan Pathak

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Three large galaxies are shown, the rightmost two in collision. The galaxy on the far right is a large spiral galaxy with one arm connected to an unusual polar galaxy on the left. The smaller galaxy on the far left is thought to be far in the background.
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Gone in 60 Seconds: A Green Flash Sunset

Video Credit & Copyright: Tengyu Cai

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Orionids in Taurus

Image Credit & Copyright: David Cortner

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APOD: 2023 October 26 - Orionids in Taurus
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The Ghosts of Gamma Cas

Image Credit & Copyright: Guillaume Gruntz, Jean-François Bax

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APOD: 2023 October 28 - The Ghosts of Gamma Cas
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A Partial Lunar Eclipse

Image Credit & Copyright: Orazio Mezzio

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Two images of a partial lunar eclipse are shown. On the left the image is overexposed everywhere except the bottom right where the eclipsed part of the Moon is visible. On the right image most of the image is normally exposed but the bottom right part is dark.
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Halloween and the Wizard Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Richard McInnis

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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
The center of the Wizard Nebula is shown featuring gas glowing in red and dust reflecting in blue. Dark dust pillars are seen throughout the image.
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