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A Blue Banded Blood Moon

By |2025-03-25T09:09:06-04:00March 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week's lunar eclipse, however -- taken from Norman, Oklahoma (USA) -- has been digitally processed to exaggerate the colors. The [...]

Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars

By |2025-03-23T09:09:06-04:00March 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This was once a beach -- on ancient Mars. The featured 360-degree panorama, horizontally compressed, was taken in 2017 by the robotic Curiosity rover that explored the red planet. Named Ogunquit Beach after its terrestrial counterpart, evidence shows that at times long ago the area was underwater, while at other [...]

The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project

By |2025-03-20T09:09:07-04:00March 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Recorded from 2024 March 10, to 2025 March 1, this composited series of images reveals a pattern in the seasonal drift of the Sun's daily motion through planet Earth's sky. Known to some as an analemma, the figure-eight curve was captured in exposures taken on the indicated dates only at [...]

Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun

By |2025-03-16T09:09:07-04:00March 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This was a very unusual type of solar eclipse. Typically, it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. In 2012, though, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned [...]

Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow

By |2025-03-14T09:09:18-04:00March 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What phase of the Moon is 3.14 radians from the Sun? The Full Moon, of course. Even though the Moon might look full for several days, the Moon is truly at its full phase when it is Pi radians (aka 180 degrees) from the Sun in ecliptic longitude. That's opposite [...]

NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble

By |2025-03-11T09:09:09-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in an image taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Visible are dark filamentary dust [...]

Cyclones at Jupiter’s North Pole

By |2025-03-09T09:09:07-04:00March 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why are there so many cyclones around the north pole of Jupiter? The topic is still being researched. NASA's robotic Juno mission orbiting Jupiter took data in 2018 that was used to construct this stunning view of the curious cyclones at Jupiter's north pole. Measuring the thermal emission from Jovian [...]

A Quadruple Alignment over Italy

By |2025-03-04T08:09:19-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why does this Moon look so unusual? A key reason is its vivid red color. The color is caused by the deflection of blue light by Earth's atmosphere -- the same reason that the daytime sky appears blue. The Moon also appears unusually distorted. Its strange structuring is an optical [...]

Blue Ghost on the Moon

By |2025-03-03T08:09:07-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day There's a new lander on the Moon. Yesterday Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost executed the first-ever successful commercial lunar landing. During its planned 60-day mission, Blue Ghost will deploy several NASA-commissioned scientific instruments, including PlanetVac which captures lunar dust after creating a small whirlwind of gas. Blue Ghost will also host [...]

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound

By |2025-03-02T08:09:10-05:00March 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Have you heard about the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field? Either way, you've likely not heard about it like this -- please run your cursor over the featured image and listen! The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) was created in 2003-2004 with the Hubble Space Telescope staring for a long time toward near-empty [...]

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