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your daily awe Globular Star Cluster NGC 6355 from Hubble Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. Today, there are… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailythe universe is unreal 🌌 Martian Anniversary Selfie June 24th marked the first full Martian year of the Curiosity Rover's exploration of the surface of the Red Planet. That's 687 Earth days or 669 sols since its landing on August… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailyspace never disappoints The Coma Cluster of Galaxies Almost every object in the above photograph is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured above is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies.… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailylook up tonight Perseid Meteors Over China Comet dust rained down on planet Earth earlier this month, streaking through dark skies in the annual Perseid meteor shower. While enjoying the anticipated space weather above… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailywe are so small The Solar Corona Unwrapped Changes in the alluring solar corona are detailed in this creative composite image mapping the dynamic outer atmosphere of the Sun during two separate total solar eclipses.… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailyspace never disappoints Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273 The spiky stars in the foreground of this sharp cosmic portrait are well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. The two eye-catching galaxies lie far beyond the Milky Way, at a distance… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailywe are so small The Great Nebula in Carina In one of the brightest parts of Milky Way lies a nebula where some of the oddest things occur. NGC 3372, known as the Great Nebula in Carina, is home to massive stars and… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailythe universe is unreal 🌌 Earth's Richat Structure What on Earth is that? The Richat Structure in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania is easily visible from space because it is nearly 50 kilometers across. Once thought to be an… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailylook up tonight Andes Sunset Eclipse On July 11, after a long trek eastward across the southern Pacific Ocean, the Moon's shadow reached landfall in South America. In a total solar eclipse close to sunset,… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailylook up tonight Solar Eclipse from Uganda The Sun's disk was totally eclipsed for a brief 20 seconds as the Moon's dark umbral shadow raced across Pokwero in northwestern Uganda on November 3rd. So this sharp telescopic… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailylook up tonight Apollo 12: Self-Portrait Is this image art? 50 years ago, Apollo 12 astronaut-photographer Charles "Pete" Conrad recorded this masterpiece while documenting colleague Alan Bean's lunar soil collection… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailyspace never disappoints An Anomalous SETI Signal No one knows for sure what caused this signal. There is a slight possibility that it just might originate from an extraterrestrial intelligence. The bright colors on the blue… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailywe are so small Storm Cloud Over Texas What makes this storm cloud so colorful? First, the cloud itself is composed of millions of tiny droplets of water and ice. Its bottom is almost completely flat -- but this… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_dailyspace never disappoints From Moonrise to Sunset In this panorama of Earth and sky recorded on Thursday, November 13, the Full Moon rises along the eastern horizon at the far left. Of course, the Full Moon rises at sunset and… 📷 NASA APOD #space #nasa #astronomy #cosmos #science@cosmos_daily