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Astronomy Picture of the Day

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\n\nDiscover the cosmos!\nEach day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is\nfeatured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.\n

\n\n2013 September 29 \n
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\n The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
\n Image Credit: \nThe Hubble Heritage Team,\n(STScI/AURA),\nESA,\nNASA\n\n

\n\n Explanation: \nThe dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. \n\nAs powerful starlight whittles away these\ncool cosmic mountains, the\nstatuesque pillars that remain\nmight be imagined as mythical beasts. \n\nPictured above is one of several striking\ndust pillars of the\nEagle Nebula\nthat might be described as a gigantic alien\nfairy. \ \n\nThis fairy, however, is ten\nlight years tall and spews radiation much hotter than\ncommon fire.\n\nThe greater Eagle Nebula, M16,\nis actually a giant evaporating shell of gas and\ndust inside of which is a growing\ncavity filled with a spectacular stellar nursery currently forming an\nopen cluster of stars. \n\nThe above image in scientifically re-assigned colors was\nreleased\nin 2005 as part of the\nfifteenth anniversary celebration of the\nlaunch of the\nHubble Space Telescope.\n\n\n

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\n Tomorrow's picture: the green unknown\n\n

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\n\n\n" http_version: recorded_at: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 04:05:40 GMT - request: method: get uri: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130928.html body: encoding: US-ASCII string: '' headers: Accept-Encoding: - gzip,deflate,identity Accept: - '*/*' User-Agent: - Mechanize/2.7.2 Ruby/2.0.0p247 (http://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize/) Accept-Charset: - ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Accept-Language: - en-us,en;q=0.5 Host: - apod.nasa.gov Referer: - !ruby/object:URI::HTTP scheme: http user: password: host: apod.nasa.gov port: 80 path: /apod/astropix.html query: opaque: registry: fragment: parser: Connection: - keep-alive Keep-Alive: - 300 response: status: code: 200 message: OK headers: Date: - Sun, 29 Sep 2013 04:05:40 GMT Server: - WebServer/1.0 Accept-Ranges: - bytes Content-Length: - '4103' Keep-Alive: - timeout=5, max=100 Connection: - Keep-Alive Content-Type: - text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 body: encoding: UTF-8 string: "\n\n APOD: 2013 September 28 - Equinox Earth \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

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\n\nDiscover the cosmos!\nEach day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is\nfeatured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.\n

\n\n2013 September 28\n
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\n\n
\n Equinox Earth
\n\n Image Credit: \n\nRoscosmos / NTSOMZ /\nzelenyikot.livejournal.com\n
\nCourtesy:\nIgor Tirsky,\nVitaliy Egorov\n\n
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\n\n Explanation: \n\nFrom a geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometers above the equator,\nRussian meteorological\nsatellite\nElektro-L takes high-resolution images\nour fair planet\nevery 30 minutes.\n\nBut only twice\na year, during an Equinox, can it capture an image\nlike this one, showing an entire hemisphere bathed in sunlight.\n\nAt an Equinox,\nthe Earth's axis of rotation is not tilted toward or\naway from the Sun, so the\nsolar illumination can extend\nto both the planet's poles.\n\nOf course,\nthis Elektro-L picture\nwas recorded on September 22nd,\nat the northern hemisphere's autumnal equinox.\n\nFor a moment on that date, the Sun was behind\nthe geostationary satellite and a\ntelltale glint of reflected sunlight is seen crossing the equator,\nat the location on the planet with satellite and sun directly overhead\n(5MB animated gif).\n\n

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

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\n\nDiscover the cosmos!\nEach day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is\nfeatured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.\n

\n\n2013 September 29 \n
\n\n\n

\n\n
\n The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
\n Image Credit: \nThe Hubble Heritage Team,\n(STScI/AURA),\nESA,\nNASA\n\n

\n\n Explanation: \nThe dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. \n\nAs powerful starlight whittles away these\ncool cosmic mountains, the\nstatuesque pillars that remain\nmight be imagined as mythical beasts. \n\nPictured above is one of several striking\ndust pillars of the\nEagle Nebula\nthat might be described as a gigantic alien\nfairy. \ \n\nThis fairy, however, is ten\nlight years tall and spews radiation much hotter than\ncommon fire.\n\nThe greater Eagle Nebula, M16,\nis actually a giant evaporating shell of gas and\ndust inside of which is a growing\ncavity filled with a spectacular stellar nursery currently forming an\nopen cluster of stars. \n\nThe above image in scientifically re-assigned colors was\nreleased\nin 2005 as part of the\nfifteenth anniversary celebration of the\nlaunch of the\nHubble Space Telescope.\n\n\n

\n Note: \nHow to follow APOD if the US government shuts down.
\n Tomorrow's picture: the green unknown\n\n

\n<\n| Archive\n| Index\n| Search\n| Calendar\n| RSS\n| Education\n| About APOD\n| Discuss\n| >\n\n

\n Authors & editors: \nRobert Nemiroff\n(MTU) &\nJerry Bonnell (UMCP)
\nNASA Official: Phillip Newman\nSpecific rights apply.
\nNASA Web\nPrivacy Policy and Important Notices
\nA service of:\nASD at\nNASA /\nGSFC\n
& Michigan Tech. U.
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