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  1. Daily Telescope: The Horsehead Nebula as we’ve never seen it before

    Good morning. It's May 1, and today's photo is ridiculously awesome. Taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, it features the sharpest infrared image of the Horsehead Nebula captured to date—it is so zoomed in we can only see the mane. Even so, the...

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  2. Daily Telescope: The ambiguously galactic duo

    Good morning. It's April 23, and today's photo comes from the Hubble Space Telescope. It features a lovely, barred spiral galaxy and a photobombing star on the right-hand side of the image.

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  3. Daily Telescope: A shiny cluster of stars in a nearby galaxy

    Good morning. It's April 2, and today's photo comes from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. It showcases a globular cluster, NGC 1651, in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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  4. Daily Telescope: A flying telescope gets photobombed by some planets

    Good morning. It's April 1, and today's photo showcases an airplane—but it's a special airplane with some celestial treats in the background.

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  5. Daily Telescope: A protostar with a stunning protoplanetary disc

    Good morning. It's March 26, and today's photo comes from the Hubble Space Telescope. It showcases a very young multi-star system known as FS Tau.

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  6. Daily Telescope: A colorful star trail through the largest window in space

    Good morning. It's March 19, and today's photo comes from the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured it during his most recent visit to the orbiting laboratory in 2012.

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  7. Daily Telescope: Gigantic new stars stir up a nebula

    Good morning. It's March 12, and today's photo comes from the James Webb Space Telescope.

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  8. Daily Telescope: A brilliant shot of a comet as it nears the Sun

    Good morning. It's March 7, and today's photo features a Halley-type comet that is currently approaching the Sun. It will reach perihelion on April 21.

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  9. Daily Telescope: A new Webb image reveals a cosmos full of galaxies

    Good morning. It's March 5, and today's image comes from the James Webb Space Telescope.

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  10. Daily Telescope: Two nebulae in Orion for the price of one

    Good morning. It's March 1, and today's image showcases two nebulae within the Orion constellation.

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  11. Daily Telescope: Finally, we’ve found the core of a famous supernova

    Good morning. It's February 26, and today's image highlights the core of a (relatively) nearby supernova.

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  12. Daily Telescope: A solar eclipse from the surface of Mars

    Good morning. It's February 12, and today's image is a real treat from the surface of Mars.

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  1. Daily Telescope: A bright nebula in a one-horned constellation

    Good morning. It's February 8, and today's photo comes from the skies over Arizona.

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  2. Daily Telescope: A Wolf-Rayet star puts on a howling light show

    Good morning. It's February 2, and today's image concerns an emission nebula about 5,000 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation.

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  3. Daily Telescope: Webb telescope reveals breathtaking structure of galaxies

    Good morning. It's January 31, and today's image comes from the James Webb Space Telescope. The image is actually a collage of many different photos.

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  4. Daily Telescope: Two large galaxies swimming in a sea of interstellar dust

    Good morning. It's January 29, and today's image features a pair of galaxies.

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  5. Daily Telescope: A stunning image of a star cluster in a nearby galaxy

    Good morning. It's January 25, and today's image is nothing short of amazing and inspirational.

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  6. Daily Telescope: Shooting a laser into the sky from Antarctica

    Good morning. It's January 24, and today's image features an astronomical sight of another sort.

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  7. Daily Telescope: Looking up to brilliant skies Down Under

    Good morning. It's January 23, and today's image showcases the night sky as seen from the Southern Hemisphere. It's a simple image of the Milky Way from a mobile phone, but it manages to capture so much grandeur.

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  8. Daily Telescope: In which the space station proves it truly is international

    Good morning. It's January 18, and today, we're looking at the brightest object made by humans in the night sky.

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  9. Daily Telescope: A beautiful supernova remnant from an uncertain age

    Good morning. It's January 17, and today's image takes us to a supernova remnant about 5,000 light-years from Earth.

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  10. Daily Telescope: The Cygnus Wall lights up the night sky

    Good morning. It's January 16, and today we're traveling 2,600 light-years outward into space to the Cygnus Wall.

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  11. Daily Telescope: Life on Earth, and maybe in the heavens above, in a single photo

    Good morning. It's January 15, and today's image comes to us from Playa Grande, Mexico.

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  12. Daily Telescope: A monster protostar in a distant nebula

    Good morning. It's January 11, and today's image showcases a diffuse nebula known as NGC 7538, found in the constellation Cepheus.

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  1. Daily Telescope: A galactic neighborhood that isn’t

    Good morning. It's January 10, and today's image comes from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. It's an amazing one.

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  2. Daily Telescope: The Milky Way above one of my favorite places on Earth

    Good morning. It's January 9, and today's image showcases the Milky Way Galaxy rising above the visitor's center on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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  3. Daily Telescope: The Wizard Nebula captured above Germany

    Good morning. It's January 6, and today's image features a newish star cluster in the constellation Cepheus.

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  4. Daily Telescope: A crab found in the night sky rather than the world’s oceans

    Good morning. It's January 5, and today's photo reveals the Crab Nebula in all of its glory.

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  5. Daily Telescope: A view of our star as Earth reaches perihelion

    Good morning. It's January 4, and today's image is a photo of our star, Sol. The image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit, on Wednesday.

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  6. Daily Telescope: A simple shot of the Milky Way high above France and Spain

    Good morning. It's December 21, and today's image showcases our very own Milky Way Galaxy above the Pyrenees mountain range, which separates Spain from the rest of Europe.

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  7. Daily Telescope: A colorful Christmas tree in the night sky

    Good morning. It's December 20, and today's image showcases two astronomical objects—the Cone Nebula and the Christmas Tree Cluster—that combined are known as NGC 2264. (NGC, by the way, stands for New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of...

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  8. Daily Telescope: James Webb zooms in on Uranus

    Good morning. It's December 19, and as we get closer to the year-end holidays your humble space correspondent is starting to get a little stir-crazy. Hence the reason for today's abdominal, I mean abominable, headline.

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  9. Daily Telescope: Tracking the Sun’s path every day across the sky

    Good morning. It's December 18, and today's photo is an homage to the forthcoming winter solstice—which will visit the Northern Hemisphere on Thursday evening.

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  10. Daily Telescope: One of the most stunning Andromeda photos I’ve ever seen

    Good morning. It's December 15, and I have a real treat for you today. This is an image of the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to our Milky Way. Astronomers believe our galaxy is shaped much as this one is.

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  11. Daily Telescope: How small can the smallest star be?

    Good morning. It's December 14, and today we're traveling about 1,000 light-years from Earth to a star cluster in the constellation Perseus. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have looked there as part of their search to answer a simple...

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  12. Daily Telescope: A space-based camera spys a secretive Project Kuiper satellite

    Good morning. It's December 13, and today's image comes from a company that images other objects in space—HEO Space. It reveals one of the two Project Kuiper satellites currently undergoing testing in low-Earth orbit.

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