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Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover – Photo stream updated daily!

Mars Image

Camera: Front Hazard Avoidance Camera - Left

Earth Date: Tue February 4th, 2025

Sol: 1409

Mars Image

Camera: Front Hazard Avoidance Camera - Left

Earth Date: Tue February 4th, 2025

Sol: 1409

Mars Image

Camera: Front Hazard Avoidance Camera - Left

Earth Date: Tue February 4th, 2025

Sol: 1409

Mars Image

Camera: Front Hazard Avoidance Camera - Left

Earth Date: Tue February 4th, 2025

Sol: 1409

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (March 17th, 2026):

The Tadpoles of IC 410

From NASA: "This telescopic close-up shows off the central regions of otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410, captured under backyard skies. Presented in a Hubble color palette, the image combines visible broadband and narrowband data with data from the near-infrared. Below and right of center are two remarkable inhabitants of the interstellar pond of gas and dust. the Tadpoles of IC 410. Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a young galactic cluster of stars. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, the intensely hot, bright cluster stars energize the glowing gas. But the cosmic tadpoles themselves are composed of denser cooler gas and dust. Around 10 light-years long they are likely sites of ongoing star formation. Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation their heads are outlined by bright ridges of ionized gas while their tails trail away from the cluster's central young stars. IC 410 lies some 10,000 light-years away, toward the nebula-rich constellation Auriga."

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