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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
APOD: 2024 October 13 Á Aurora Timelapse Over Italian Alps13.10.2024
Did you see last night's aurora? This question was relevant around much of the world a few days ago because a powerful auroral storm became visible unusually far from the Earth's poles.
Northern Lights, West Virginia
12.10.2024
A gravel country lane gently winds through this colorful rural night skyscape. Captured from Monroe County in southern West Virginia on the evening of October 10, the starry sky above is a familiar sight. Shimmering curtains of aurora borealis or northern lights definitely do not make regular appearances here, though.
Ring of Fire over Easter Island
11.10.2024
The second solar eclipse of 2024 began in the Pacific. On October 2nd the Moon's shadow swept from west to east, with an annular eclipse visible along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking...
Five Bright Comets from SOHO
10.10.2024
Five bright comets are compared in these panels, recorded by a coronograph on board the long-lived, sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Arranged chronologically all are recognizable by their tails streaming away from...
APOD: 2024 October 9 Á M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center
9.10.2024
What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M106? A swirling disk of stars and gas, M106's appearance is dominated by blue spiral arms and red dust lanes near the nucleus, as shown in the featured image taken from the Kuwaiti desert.
APOD: 2024 October 8 Á Annular Eclipse over Patagonia
8.10.2024
Can you find the Sun? OK, but can you explain why thereÁs a big dark spot in the center? The spot is the Moon, and the impressive alignment shown, where the Moon lines up inside the Sun, is called an annular solar eclipse.
APOD: 2024 October 7 Á The Long Tails of Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS
7.10.2024
A bright comet is moving into the evening skies. C/2023 A3 (TsuchinshanÁATLAS) has brightened and even though it is now easily visible to the unaided eye, it is so near to the Sun that it is still difficult to see. Pictured, Comet TsuchinshanÁATLAS was captured just before sunrise from an Andes Mountain in Peru.
APOD: 2024 October 6 Á The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught
6.10.2024
Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, grew a spectacularly long and filamentary tail. The magnificent tail spread across the sky and was visible for several days to Southern Hemisphere observers just after sunset. The amazing ion tail showed its greatest extent on long-duration, wide-angle camera exposures.
M27: Not a Comet
5.10.2024
While hunting for comets in the skies above 18th century France, astronomer Charles Messier diligently kept a list of the things encountered during his telescopic expeditions that were definitely not comets. This is number 27 on his now famous not-a-comet list.
Comet at Moonrise
4.10.2024
Comet C/2023 A3 (TsuchinshanÁATLAS) is growing brighter in planet Earth's sky. Fondly known as comet A3, this new visitor to the inner Solar System is traveling from the distant Oort cloud. The comet...
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