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A young moon with the reflection of Earth on its darkened surface. The Earth reflects the light from the Sun back towards the moon like the moon reflects light towards us and this is called Earthshine it is also called the Moon's ashen glow.

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Sone Rhubarb starting to come up thru the soil.

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Yesterday morning was a partial lunar eclipse over parts of Europe, North America and Asia. This picture was taken in Iceland one of the places with no clouds yesterday. No where saw a full eclipse because the alignment between the Earth moon

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The handyman's secret weapon on the moon a piece of duct tape was used to fix a fender on the Apollo 17's lunar rover, Harrison Schmidt and Eugene Cernan did this to prevent rooster tails of lunar dust getting into their equipment on their space suits.

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M81,NGC 3031 or Bode Galaxy located about 12 million light years way in the constellation of Ursa Major. It is about 96.000 light years across making it about the same size as our own Milky Way, the dust lanes in this galaxy are probably due interactions with the nearby M82.

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NGC 281 or the Pacman nebula is a star forming region in Cassiopeia at a distance of 9500 light years away and spans over 80 light years. The dark globules or Bok globules are where young suns are being born.

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During the lunar eclipse there can be seen a blue line in between the natural color of the moon and the red region. The blue light is from light from the Sun that passes through the upper atmosphere while the red light comes deeper down in the atmosphere that is scattered more giving the

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This once was an ancient lake shore on Mars called Ogunquit Beach. The images that make this 360 degree panorama was taken by the Curiosity Rover in 2017 was taken at the foot of Mount Sharo in Gale Crater in 2017 which Curiosity explored.

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This once was an ancient lake shore on Mars called Ogunquit Beach. The images that make this 360 degree panorama was taken by the Curiosity Rover in 2017 was taken at the foot of Mount Sharo in Gale Crater in 2017 which Curiosity explored.

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The Leo triplet all three are spiral galaxies but seen at different angles. NGC 3628 otherwise know as the Hamburger Galaxy but is seen edge on. M65 and M66 are galaxies that are inclined so you can see the spiral and they are located about 35 million light years away along with NGC 3628.

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This an image taken by the Blue Ghost lander on the moon taken as the Earth passes between the Earth and the Sun.

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LDN 1235 located 650 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus this molecular cloud is about 15 light years away.

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Thors Helmet located 11,960 light years away located in the Canis Major constellation. In the center of 30 light years across nebula is a giant star which is probably a Wolf-Rayet star is a star in a pre mains sequence stage of its life.

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Located 650 light years away in the constellation Serpens Carda this bipolar flow contains in the center two stars forming this image was provided by James Webb Space Telescope.

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This is M94, 15 million light years away in the constellation Canis Venatici, this is the central 7000 light years of the galaxy's 30000 light year span.

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The Pleiades or known as M45 located in the constellation of Taurus, and to the left the glowing cloud of gas is the California Nebula the two are actually separated by 25 full moons and to the bottom LBM 777 or the baby Eagle Nebula.

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The first ever commercial lander has made to the moon with the Blue Ghost.

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This image is from the Blue Ghost lander from Firefly aerospace, it will land on the moon and do experiments on the regolith and measure other characteristics of the Moon. The lander is built to last 60 days on the Monn which be just 2 Lunar

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This shot back to the Earh is taken from the IM-2 Nova-C Aterna lander that will land on the moon on Mons Mouton near the moon's south pole. This lander will drill into the surface to check for water near where the Artemis mission will land.

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Thou these two clusters are in Gemini these aren't twins. The cluster the upper right is M35 or NGC 2168 is a cluster of stars of about 400 stars that are 2800 light yrs away and is about 30 light years across and considered about 150 million years old. The cluster in the

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In this galaxy cluster in Draco there is NGC 6505 located 608 million light years away. Around this elliptical is Einstein ring, which is caused by the gravity of the galaxy distorting the light from a galaxy further away,

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Saturn in infrared light, this was taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2014 which revealed the hexagon shaped storm on the top of the planets, each side is the size of the Earth, it will probably be under study for many years to come.

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This image of Andromeda is a composite of 600 stitched together from observations from Hubble Space Telescope from July 2010 to December 2022.

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From a distance of %0 million light years this is the elliptical galaxy m87 or NGC 4487 which contains over a trillion stars compared to the 100-300 billion stars in our own galaxy. You can see a jet coming from the core of the galaxy which is about 5000 light years long.

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Herbig-Haro object 30 or- HH 30 if you to look at in normal light all you would see would be a dark globule but with the infrared range of the JWST you would see something like this. This object is too cool to emit light of its own, yet.

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The Seagull Nebula and Thors Helmet. These two nebulas are located int he Constellation of Canis Major, the big dog, too find the constellation look towards Orion and below is it a bright star which only 8.8 light years away and the brightest star in the sky.

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The Rosette Nebula is located 5000 light years away in the constellation of Monoceros, it is nebula lit up by the young star cluster of O type stars in the center of the nebula that is pushing the gas and dust by its solar winds and providing energy thru their radiation.

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VdB 31 is the 31st object in Sydney van den Bergh catalogue of reflection Nebula which is reflecting light from AB Auriga it has B26, B27, B28 dark clouds that of dust that are blocking light from background stars and were discovered by Edward E. Bernard in 1919.

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This is Bennu the asteroid OSIRIS-landed on and collected a sample and returned them to Earth. The samples contain 14 out of 20 ammino acids needed to make proteins. youtu.be/ukCSRYcjSQw?...

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The spider and the fly about 10,000 light years away in the constellation of Auriga the Charioteer, The spider IC 417 in the middle is a young star cluster and the nebula is an emission nebula which means the longer wavelength red light passes thru to us

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Auroral hummingbird over Norway.

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