Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                              2021 September 4
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                              A Falcon 9 Nebula
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Dennis Huff

   Explanation: [5]Not the Hubble Space Telescope's latest view of a
   distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled
   early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 29. [6]The snapshot was
   taken at 3:17am from Space View Park in Titusville, Florida. That's
   about 3 minutes after the [7]launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the
   [8]CRS-23 mission to resupply the International Space Station. It
   captures drifting plumes and exhaust from the separated first and
   second stage of the rocket rising through still dark skies. The lower
   bright dot is the second stage continuing [9]on to low Earth orbit. The
   upper one is the rocket's first stage performing a [10]boostback burn.
   Of course the first stage booster returned to make the first landing on
   the latest autonomous drone ship to arrive in the Atlantic, [11]A Short
   Fall of Gravitas.

                     Tomorrow's picture: Earth and Moon
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