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This initiative has received support from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and MTU. The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, unlike many other NASA image galleries. [4] When the APOD website was created, it received a total of 14 page views on its first day.
Earth's terminator as seen from space. A terminator or twilight zone is a moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body.The terminator is defined as the locus of points on a planet or moon where the line through the center of its parent star is tangent.
HD 21749 c is a planet described as "likely rocky", with about 89% of Earth's diameter and orbits the K-type main sequence star HD 21749 in about 8 days. The planet's surface temperature is estimated to be as high as 427 °C. Both known planets in the system, HD 21749 b and HD 21749 c, were discovered by TESS. HD 21749 c represents the 10th ...
"The planets will orbit the sun in roughly the same plane (called the ecliptic plane), and at certain times, like we’ll see in June, their positions line up in a way that makes them look to us ...
This photo, and many other images that have been released from Juno's extended mission, employs color enhancement to help visualize the depth between the layers of clouds in Jupiter's deep atmosphere.
NASA astronaut Bob Hines tweeted on Aug. 17, sharing a collection of photos taken from the International Space Station. The photos showed the Northern lights – bands of green light topped with ...
J1407b is a substellar object, either a free-floating planet or brown dwarf, with a large circumplanetary disk or ring system.It was first detected by automated telescopes in 2007 when its disk eclipsed the star V1400 Centauri, causing a series of dimming events for 56 days.
The south polar region seems to be darker than the north polar region, but there is a high-albedo region in the southern hemisphere that may be a regional nitrogen or methane ice deposit. [198] Panoramic view of Pluto's icy mountains and flat ice plains, imaged by New Horizons 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto. Distinct haze layers ...