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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       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.   
      
                                  2023 August 31   
      
                                 The Crew-7 Nebula   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Seeley   
      
      Explanation: Not the 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 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 orienting   
      itself for the trip back to Landing Zone-1 at Cape Canaveral, planet   
      Earth.   
      
                     Tomorrow's picture: a great little patch   
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