A Giant Squid in the Flying Bat
If so, the truly giant Squid Nebula would physically be nearly 50 light-years across.
Image Credit: Steve Cannistra ( StarryWonders )
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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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🗽Lady Liberty, a day after the New Moon, the return of a Waxing Crescent Moon.
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