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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.   
      
                                   2024 March 7   
      
                                 The Crew-8 Nebula   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Seeley   
      
      Explanation: Not the James Webb Space Telescope's latest view of a   
      distant galactic nebula, this cloud of gas and dust dazzled spacecoast   
      skygazers on March 3. The telephoto snapshot was taken minutes after   
      the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on the SpaceX Crew-8 mission, to the   
      International Space Station. It captures plumes and exhaust from the   
      separated first and second stage, a drifting Rorschach pattern in dark   
      evening skies. The bright spot near bottom center within the stunning   
      terrestrial nebulosity is the second stage engine firing to carry 4   
      humans to space in the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour. In sharp   
      silhouette just above it is the Falcon 9 first stage booster orienting   
      itself for return to a landing zone at Cape Canaveral, planet Earth.   
      This reuseable first stage booster was making its first flight. But the   
      Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule has flown humans to low Earth orbit and   
      back again 4 times before. Endeavour, as a name for a spacecraft, has   
      also seen reuse, christening retired Space Shuttle Endeavour and the   
      Apollo 15 command module.   
      
                    Tomorrow's picture: distant galactic nebula   
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