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Giant Jet from the International Space Station

By |2024-08-13T09:09:23-04:00August 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's that on the horizon? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early last month, astronaut Matthew Dominick saw an unusual type of lightning just beyond the Earth's edge: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears on the left of the featured image in red and blue. Giant [...]

Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula

By |2024-06-17T09:09:27-04:00June 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Squids on Earth aren't this big. This mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud spans nearly three full moons on planet Earth's sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently surrounded by [...]

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