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Leonids Over Monument Valley

There was a shower over Monument Valley — but not water. Meteors. Next Leonids meteor shower The featured image — actually a composite of six exposures of about 30 seconds each — was taken in 2001, a year when there...

Wright Mons on Pluto

Long shadows are cast by a low Sun across this rugged looking terrain. Captured by New Horizons, the scene is found just south of the southern tip Sputnik Planum, the informally named smooth, bright heart region of Pluto. Centered is...

The Tadpoles of IC 410

This telescopic close-up shows off the otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410. It also features two remarkable inhabitants of the cosmic pond of gas and dust below and right of center, the tadpoles of IC 410. Partly obscured by foreground...