Milky Way Urban Style In a cosmic vista you can never see, the Milky Way arcs through the night above Seoul, South Korea. Remarkably, this urban night skyscape reveals our galaxy's faintly luminous central region and dark obscuring dust clouds in spite of the brilliant city lights. To overcome the extreme light pollution of the metropolitan area and record faint cosmic details, an infrared filter was used to capture the night scene in a single exposure. While the filter transmits predominately infrared light, it still passes some visible light to give the scene a natural appearance. The view is from Seoul's Ttukseom Hangang Park, with the Han River and a well lit railway bridge across the foreground. The 123 story Lotte World Tower looms in the distance, the tallest building in South Korea. Image Credit & Copyright: Shingoo Lee - June 26, 2026 - Shared through genyapps Nasa Explorer by @compez.eth - From Effort to Achievement â $GENY Helps You Share Your Path! https://nasa.genyapps.xyz/
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Daytime Moon Meets Evening Star Venus is now appearing on the celestial stage as Earth's brilliant evening star, performing with the Moon, other wandering planets, and bright stars in western skies. For evening sky gazers on June 17, the celestial beacon rose after sunset close by a young, slender, crescent Moon. But from some locations the Moon could be seen to occult or pass in front of Venus. And from a backyard observatory in southern British Columbia, Canada, the lunar occultation was played out in daylight. This stunning telescopic snapshot captured a scene in dramatically cloudy skies, following Venus' hour long disappearance, as the evening star emerged beyond the bright lunar limb. Image Credit & Copyright: Debra Ceravolo - June 20, 2026 - Shared through genyapps Nasa Explorer by @compez.eth - From Effort to Achievement â $GENY Helps You Share Your Path! https://nasa.genyapps.xyz/
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Comet R3 PanSTARRS Through Time What happens to a comet as it leaves our inner Solar System? Now, the arrival of a comet into the inner Solar System is typically heralded with great fanfare and high hopes that the comet will become bright and photogenic. But on the way out, the comet's nucleus is less warmed by the Sun, less gas and dust are expelled, the bright coma around the nucleus shrinks and fades, and the tail length drops off. Many comets will then return to the outer Solar System and only return in hundreds or thousands of years. In contrast, some comets -- like Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) -- receive a gravitational kick from the planets and so will never return. Pictured, Comet R3 PanSTARRs was imaged deeply many nights in early to mid-May near Cerro Paranal in Chile. Later images appear closer to the top and clearly show the shrinking ion tail. Image Credit & Copyright: Jakub KuĆĂĄk & Martin MaĆĄek (FZU of the Czech Academy of Sciences) - June 8, 2026 - Shared through genyapps Nasa Explorer by @compez.eth - From Effort to Achievement â $GENY Helps You Share Your Path! https://nasa.genyapps.xyz/
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