Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                               2023 August 31
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                              The Crew-7 Nebula
               Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Michael Seeley

   Explanation: Not the [5]James Webb Space Telescope's latest view of a
   distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled
   early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 26. The snapshot was taken
   about 2 minutes after the launch of of a Falcon 9 rocket on [6]the
   SpaceX Crew-7 mission, the seventh commercial crew rotation mission for
   the International Space Station. It captures drifting plumes and
   exhaust from the separated first and second stage illuminated against
   the still dark skies. Near the center of the image, within the ragged
   blueish ring, are two bright points of light. The lower one is the
   second stage of the rocket carrying 4 humans to space in a Crew Dragon
   spacecraft. The bright point above is the Falcon 9 first stage booster
   [7]orienting itself for the trip back to Landing Zone-1 [8]at Cape
   Canaveral, planet Earth.

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