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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins (APOD: 2025 Sep 14) Video Credit: NASA, Animation: James O'Donoghue (U. Reading) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250914.html Explanation: How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets in our Solar System to show them spinning side-by-side for an easy comparison. In the time-lapse video, a day on Earth -- one Earth rotation
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Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins (APOD: 2025 Sep 14) Video Credit: NASA, Animation: James O'Donoghue (U. Reading) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250914.html Explanation: How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets in our Solar System to show them spinning side-by-side for an easy comparison. In the time-lapse video, a day on Earth -- one Earth rotation
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APOD: Flying Over the Earth at Night II (2021 Apr 23) Video Credit: NASA, Gateway to Astronaut Photography, ISS Expedition 53; Music: The Low Seas (The 126ers) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210423.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqG42AD4Gw Repost with active video Explanation: Recorded during 2017, timelapse sequences from the International Space Station are compiled in this serene video of planet Earth at Night. Fans of low Earth orbit can start by enjoying the view as green and red aurora
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APOD: Flying Over the Earth at Night II (2021 Apr 23) Video Credit: NASA, Gateway to Astronaut Photography, ISS Expedition 53; Music: The Low Seas (The 126ers) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210423.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqG42AD4Gw Repost with active video Explanation: Recorded during 2017, timelapse sequences from the International Space Station are compiled in this serene video of planet Earth at Night. Fans of low Earth orbit can start by enjoying the view as green and red aurora
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Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins (APOD: 2025 Sep 14) Video Credit: NASA, Animation: James O'Donoghue (U. Reading) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250914.html Explanation: How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets in our Solar System to show them spinning side-by-side for an easy comparison. In the time-lapse video, a day on Earth -- one Earth rotation
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Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins (APOD: 2025 Sep 14) Video Credit: NASA, Animation: James O'Donoghue (U. Reading) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250914.html Explanation: How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets in our Solar System to show them spinning side-by-side for an easy comparison. In the time-lapse video, a day on Earth -- one Earth rotation
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APOD: Flying Over the Earth at Night II (2021 Apr 23) Video Credit: NASA, Gateway to Astronaut Photography, ISS Expedition 53; Music: The Low Seas (The 126ers) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210423.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqG42AD4Gw Repost with active video Explanation: Recorded during 2017, timelapse sequences from the International Space Station are compiled in this serene video of planet Earth at Night. Fans of low Earth orbit can start by enjoying the view as green and red aurora
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APOD: Flying Over the Earth at Night II (2021 Apr 23) Video Credit: NASA, Gateway to Astronaut Photography, ISS Expedition 53; Music: The Low Seas (The 126ers) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210423.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqG42AD4Gw Repost with active video Explanation: Recorded during 2017, timelapse sequences from the International Space Station are compiled in this serene video of planet Earth at Night. Fans of low Earth orbit can start by enjoying the view as green and red aurora
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APOD: M1: The Expanding Crab Nebula (2023 Mar 20) Video Credit & Copyright: Detlef Hartmann https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230320.html Explanation: Are your eyes good enough to see the Crab Nebula expand? The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of debris from the explosion of a massive star. The violent birth of the Crab was witnessed by astronomers in
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APOD: M1: The Expanding Crab Nebula (2023 Mar 20) Video Credit & Copyright: Detlef Hartmann https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230320.html Explanation: Are your eyes good enough to see the Crab Nebula expand? The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of debris from the explosion of a massive star. The violent birth of the Crab was witnessed by astronomers in
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Flying Over the Earth at Night (APOD: 2025 Dec 08) Video Credit: Gateway to Astronaut Photography, NASA ; Compilation: David Peterson (YouTube); Music: Freedom Fighters (Two Steps from Hell) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251208.html Explanation: Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but the featured video captured several from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and set them to rousing musi
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Flying Over the Earth at Night (APOD: 2025 Dec 08) Video Credit: Gateway to Astronaut Photography, NASA ; Compilation: David Peterson (YouTube); Music: Freedom Fighters (Two Steps from Hell) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251208.html Explanation: Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but the featured video captured several from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and set them to rousing musi
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APOD: Jupiter's Magnetic Field from Juno (2020 Feb 25) Video Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Harvard U., K. Moore et al. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200225.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N7nRh5v1Iw Repost with active video Explanation: How similar is Jupiter's magnetic field to Earth's? NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft has found that Jupiter's magnetic field is surprisingly complex, so that the Jovian world does not have single magnetic poles like our Earth. A snapshot of Jupiter's magnetic fie
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APOD: Jupiter's Magnetic Field from Juno (2020 Feb 25) Video Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Harvard U., K. Moore et al. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200225.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N7nRh5v1Iw Repost with active video Explanation: How similar is Jupiter's magnetic field to Earth's? NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft has found that Jupiter's magnetic field is surprisingly complex, so that the Jovian world does not have single magnetic poles like our Earth. A snapshot of Jupiter's magnetic fie
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Flying over the North Pole of Mars (APOD: 2026 Mar 03) Video Credit: ESA, Mars Express, VMC; Processing & License: Simeon Schmauß https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260303.html Explanation: If you could fly over the North Pole of Mars, what would you see? Images from ESA’s Mars Express mission in 2019 were compiled into the featured video which shows just such a trip. First you see below you a landscape tinted orange by rusted iron in the fine soil, with some land appearing darker due to exposed rock.
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APOD: Solar System Ball Drop (2021 Aug 25) Video Credit & Copyright: James O'Donoghue (JAXA) & Rami Mandow (Space Australia); Text: James O'Donoghue https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210825.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHhQrplIm8g Repost with active video Explanation: Does a ball drop faster on Earth, Jupiter, or Uranus? The featured animation shows a ball dropping from one kilometer high toward the surfaces of famous solar system bodies, assuming no air resistance. The force of gravity depen
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APOD: Parker: Sounds of the Solar Wind (2020 Jan 21) Video Credit: NASA, JHUAPL, Naval Research Lab, Parker Solar Probe; Processing: Avi Solomon https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200121.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgzGET6owYk Repost with active video Explanation: What does the solar wind sound like? A wind of fast moving particles blows out from our Sun, and although space transmits sound poorly, particle impact and variable-field data from NASA's near-Sun Parker Solar Probe is being transla
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