NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

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2024 September 17 - Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula

Posted September 17, 2024

In today's image, we see the young star cluster., Melotte 15 which has formed in the last million or so years in the central trigons of the Heart Nebula.

2024 September 16 - Mercury's Vivaldi Crater from BepiColumbo

Posted September 16, 2024

In today's image, we see an image of the Vivaldi crater on Mercury which was recently imaged by the BepiColumbo spacecraft. The craft recently flew...

2024 September 15 - Find the Man in the Moon

Posted September 15, 2024

In today's image, we see an image of the full moon. You can also see the "Man in the Moon" in the patterns of the maria on the near side of the moon.

2024 September 14 - The Moona Lisa

Posted September 14, 2024

In today's image, we see multiple images of our Moon in a frame. If you look from a greater distance, or look at the smaller images, you will see an...

2024 September 13 - Aurora Australis and the International Space Station

Posted September 13, 2024

In today's image, we see the red and green aurora in Earth's upper atmosphere caused by charged particles from the Sun exciting oxygen atoms.