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                        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.

                              2020 November 16
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                         Light and Glory over Crete
                Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Tomás Slovinský

   Explanation: The month was July, the place was the [4]Greek island of
   [5]Crete, and the sky was spectacular. Of course there were the usual
   stars like [6]Polaris, [7]Vega, and [8]Antares -- and that common
   [9]asterism everyone knows: the [10]Big Dipper. But this sky was just
   getting started. The band of the [11]Milky Way Galaxy [12]stunned as it
   arched across the night like a bridge made of [13]stars and [14]dust
   but dotted with red nebula like candy. The planets [15]Saturn and
   Jupiter were so bright you wanted to stop people on the beach and point
   them out. The [16]air glowed like a [17]rainbow -- but what really
   grabbed the glory was a comet. Just above the northern horizon,
   [18]Comet NEOWISE spread its [19]tails like nothing you had ever seen
   before or might ever see again. [20]Staring in amazement, there was
   only one thing to do: take a [21]picture.

                 Coverage: [22]NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Mission
                 Tomorrow's picture: unexplained sky ribbon
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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2011/CreteSky_Slovinsky_3000.jpg
   3. http://slovinsky.art/
   4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece
   5. https://youtu.be/kbbkNlj5jOo
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   9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(astronomy)
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130421.html
  11. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/285/the-milky-way-galaxy/
  12. https://i.pinimg.com/236x/72/63/3f/72633fcf833f46966dbd380c1fd7339b--funny-kitties-cute-cats.jpg
  13. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/universe/stars/
  14. https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/D/Dust+Grain
  15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201020.html
  16. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/why-nasa-watches-airglow-the-colors-of-the-upper-atmospheric-wind
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140930.html
  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_NEOWISE
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200722.html
  20. https://media.tenor.com/images/6e1e57d33d62a9788cc07ae583d03184/tenor.png
  21. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3758707924148713&set=a.577773782242159
  22. https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasas-spacex-crew-1-mission
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  29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
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  31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
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  34. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
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  36. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
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  39. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html
  40. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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