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2025 October 18 - 3D Bennu

Posted October 18, 2025

In today's image, we see the asteroid named Bennu. This asteroid was visited by the ORIRIS-REx spacecraft and returned a sample of this asteroid to...

2025 October 17 - Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon

Posted October 17, 2025

In today's image, we see the second asteroid to be visited by a spacecraft which was the asteroid Ida which was visited by the Galileo spacecraft on...

2025 October 16 - Young Suns of NGC 7129

Posted October 16, 2025

In today's image, we see the seat forming region known as NGC 7129. This may be much like the region where our own Sun formed five billion or so years...

2025 October 15 - Rocket Launch Plume over Tucson

Posted October 15, 2025

In today's image, we see the plume from the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket which was delivering multiple Starling communications satellites to low Earth...

2025 October 14 - An Unusual Globule in IC 1396

Posted October 14, 2025

In today's image, we see a part of the Elephant Trunk Nebula which is also known by its catalog designations of IC 1396. This is also considered a cometary...