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2025 October 07 - SN Encore: A Second Supernova Seen Several Times

Posted October 7, 2025

In today's image, we see multiple images of a supernova occurring in a distant galaxy. Multiple images are possible because of gravitational lensing...

2025 October 06 - The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Lemmon

Posted October 6, 2025

In today's image, we see five images of Comet Lemmon taken of the period of about a week. Here we can see the distinct changes that occur in the ion...

2025 October 05 - A Long Storm System on Saturn

Posted October 5, 2025

In today's image, we see a storm on Saturn from 2010 as images by the Cassini spacecraft. The storm lasted for six months and stretched all the way...

2025 October 04 - The Rotating Moon

Posted October 4, 2025

In today's image, we see a video composed of images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing what it would look like if we could see the Moon as...

2025 October 03 - Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies

Posted October 3, 2025

In today's image, we see the cluster sometime known as Pandora's Cluster. This is a large galaxy cluster which appears to be three clusters merging...