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#space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/FBMbyXdUc4 (Excerpt): The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (the official designation) is divided from the larger North America Nebula by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. The Pelican, however, receives much … https://t.co/9MAMtj4yEG Full Explanation

#space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/y0Ihen5C4O (Excerpt): What created this unusual space ribbon? The answer: one of the most violent explosions ever witnessed by ancient humans. Back in the year 1006 AD, light reached Earth from a stellar explosion in the constellatio… https://t.co/IPsm7zt3kP Full Explanation

NGC 1360: The Robin’s Egg Nebula #space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/neZ3xJwrq0 (Excerpt): This pretty nebula lies some 1,500 light-years away, its shape and color in this telescopic view reminiscent of a robin’s egg. The cosmic cloud spans about 3 light-years, nestled… https://t.co/MymUcNzSP4 Full Explanation

Moonrays of August #space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/vzkJzmukCF (Excerpt): A Full Moon rose as the Sun set on August 1. Near perigee, the closest point in its almost moonthly orbit, the brighter than average lunar disk illuminated night skies around planet Earth as t… https://t.co/EyR9cR4avi Full Explanation

The Falcon and the Redstone #space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/fKTKiYqVAj (Excerpt): In a photo from the early hours of July 29 (UTC), a Redstone rocket and Mercury capsule are on display at Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5. Beyond the Redstone, the 8 minute long expos… https://t.co/66IRzl3Xri Full Explanation

#space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/V50E9XcWor (Excerpt): Why is the Cigar Galaxy billowing red smoke? M82, as this starburst galaxy is also known, was stirred up by a recent pass near large spiral galaxy M81. This doesn’t fully explain the source of the red-glowing ou… https://t.co/MohWXSYncK Full Explanation

#space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/68SU7Pxk8m (Excerpt): The monsters that live on the Sun are not like us. They are larger than the Earth and made of gas hotter than in any teapot. They have no eyes, but at times, many tentacles. They float. Usually, they slowly chan… https://t.co/66Rk7r2YAG Full Explanation

#space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/1ualAh4yPE (Excerpt): Why is Phobos so dark? Phobos, the largest and innermost of the two Martian moons, is the darkest moon in the entire Solar System. Its unusual orbit and color indicate that it may be a captured asteroid composed… https://t.co/dlvu6pYIKa Full Explanation

#space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/c0hTF11tLT (Excerpt): Admire the beauty but fear the beast. The beauty is the aurora overhead, here taking the form of a great green spiral, seen between picturesque clouds with the bright Moon to the side and stars in the background… https://t.co/v52IjjFV7g Full Explanation

Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun #space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/3OsXaDeHxm (Excerpt): Bright sunlight glints as long dark shadows mark this image of the surface of the Moon. It was taken fifty-four years ago, July 20, 1969, by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the f… https://t.co/rm8vtMRP7P Full Explanation

Young Stars, Stellar Jets #space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/63qii79ALY (Excerpt): High-speed outflows of molecular gas from a pair of actively forming young stars shine in infrared light, revealing themselves in this NIRcam image from the James Webb Space Telescope. … https://t.co/Zg5VtpfPwO Full Explanation

Galaxies in the River #space #nasa Full Explanation: https://t.co/zAIFCwGIWM (Excerpt): Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy engages in a sort of galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that are too close and are captured by the Milky Way’s grav… https://t.co/PRIWDN18aD Full Explanation