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2025 October 08 - NGC 7380: The Wizard Nebula

Posted October 8, 2025

In today's image, we see the star forming region known as the Wizard Nebula. Here, newly forming stars are creating the patterns and colors that we...

2025 October 07 - SN Encore: A Second Supernova Seen Several Times

Posted October 7, 2025

In today's image, we see multiple images of a supernova occurring in a distant galaxy. Multiple images are possible because of gravitational lensing...

2025 October 06 - The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Lemmon

Posted October 6, 2025

In today's image, we see five images of Comet Lemmon taken of the period of about a week. Here we can see the distinct changes that occur in the ion...

2025 October 05 - A Long Storm System on Saturn

Posted October 5, 2025

In today's image, we see a storm on Saturn from 2010 as images by the Cassini spacecraft. The storm lasted for six months and stretched all the way...

2025 October 04 - The Rotating Moon

Posted October 4, 2025

In today's image, we see a video composed of images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing what it would look like if we could see the Moon as...