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• A Zodiacal Night

  Also known as the false dawn, a luminous band of zodiacal light is captured in this dark night skyscape

• Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy

  The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33

• A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula

  This treasure chest is full of stars

• Webb's View of M64

  Sometimes where Hubble finds darkness, Webb sees light

• A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus

  There was something behind the clouds

• Where Your Elements Came From

  The hydrogen in your body and present in every molecule of water came from the Big Bang

• Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun

  Bright sunlight glints as long dark shadows mark this image of the surface of the Moon

• M83: The Southern Pinwheel

  Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra

• LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula

  What does this image look like to you? Many see a giraffe facing right, with neck stretched high and long legs mid-stride (but some may see a squirrel instead)

• Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole

  Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud since discovery in 1987 in data taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts, which quickly flew past the ringed world in the early 1980s