NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
Of course NGC 4372 roams the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy, a background object some 20,000 light-years away and only by chance along our line-of-sight to the Dark Doodad.
Image Credit: Marco Lorenzi
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Meteor shower update:
Leonids (Class I) meteor shower in Leo constellation, Peak rate (ZHR) of 15 per hour, traveling at a velocity of 71km/sec, from parent object 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, prediction status: published maximum, 7 days to peak
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NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
Most elliptical galaxies have more and brighter globular clusters than NGC 1316.
Image Credit: Damian Peach / SEN
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⏰𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 #𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿™ 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺��𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 🌒
🗽Lady Liberty, a day after the New Moon, the return of a Waxing Crescent Moon.
📸 by @DanTVusa
🌜-Thank you for sharing your beautiful Moon snap. 👍🏻
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📸𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁: Dan Martland from NY🇺🇸
⏰𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 #𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿™ 𝗟𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 🌙
The Moon lights up again at 1.2%. Seen from Cairo🇪🇬.
Today, we gaze at the right side of the southeastern edge, where the sun has just risen to light up a roughly 3.9 billion-year-old crater named, Abel. A Norwegian mathematician, Niels Henrik Abel.
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𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁: Lunardelight Via Instagram
A 3D animation by NASA and JAXA using lunar data.
Distorted Green Flash Sunset over Italy
Different colors of the Sun may also become deflected by significantly different amounts, so that the uppermost superior image may appear momentarily green -- a phenomenon known as a green flash.
Image Credit: Paolo Lazzarotti
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