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Vista del volcán Mayon desde la ciudad de Legazpi (Filipinas).
Vista del volcán Mayon desde la ciudad de Legazpi (Filipinas).

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Imagens do inverno no Japão

Astronomy picture of the day - 2018 January 29 - The Spider and The Fly

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The Spider and The Fly 
Image Credit & Copyright: Joe Morris
Explanation: Will the spider ever catch the fly? Not if both are large emission nebulas toward the constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga). The spider-shaped gas cloud on the left is actually an emission nebula labelled IC 417, while the smaller fly-shaped cloud on the right is dubbed NGC 1931 and is both an emission nebula and a reflection nebula. About 10,000 light-years distant, both nebulas harbor young, open star clusters. For scale, the more compact NGC 1931 (Fly) is about 10 light-years across.