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NGC 3576 or the Ibex Nebula which looks like a celestial Ibex mountain goat with those striking horn like nebulous clouds, is situated near the Southern Cross – a four star constellation in the southern hemisphere
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How our neighbouring Andromeda galaxy will appear from Earth, approaching our galaxy Milky Way over a span of several billion years into the future
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Mars, snapped by Hubble 2018
The Orion Nebula as seen through William optics flurostar 132
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M106/NGC 4258 Nebula in X-ray, radio, infrared and optical light
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Astronauts at work in space.
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Crab Nebula, zoomed in.
Mile wide potentially hazardous asteroid to whizz past Earth tonight. Asteroid 1997 BQ — first identified in January of 1997, is hurtling towards us at an approximate speed of 13.3 km per second and will "closely approach" our planet on the evening of 21st May 2020. According to NASA estimates it will be a safe flyby with the asteroid passing within 3.8 miles of Earth, that's about 16 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.
Source: NASA
This is Rosette Nebula — which got its nickname from its close resemblance to a flower in bloom. It's the Perseus Arm of the galaxy, about a 130 light-years-wide nebula that hosts a club of more than 10,000 young stars.
Image Credit: CalTech/Palomar
Simulation Credit: MarsWalkers
Saturn is nestling close to Jupiter this week, in an event known as the Great Conjunction that occurs regularly, aligning these two gas giants every twenty years or so. Skywatchers can catch this once in a decades cosmic marriage in the early predawn hours.
Photo Credit : Techlife
Our sun is entering into a sleepy state of inactivity— a recurring phenomenon known as Solar Minimum.
A period of minimal solar activity, during which the surface solar movement diminishes, resulting in a trough in solar eruptions and coronal mass ejections (CME) activities. Though it is a period of (relative) calm for the otherwise seething ball of energy, it doesn't hold any consequence(s) for us, as Earthlings. Sun, as we know it, will remain the same.
Jupiter and its faint rings– known as the Jovian ring system , as seen through infrared.
Full Moon in full Colour - April the 6th of 2020
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