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Asteroid Caught Marching Across Tadpole Nebula
(NASA) – A new infrared image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth. As WISE scanned the sky, capturing this mosaic…
Astronomy Picture of the Day – Hubble Peers Inside a Celestial Geode
In this unusual image, the Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode – a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from a young hot star. Hubble…