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Channel NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod_telegram) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 34 792 subscribers, ranking 409 in the Facts category and 1 014 in the USA region.
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Since its creation on Π½Π΅Π²ΡΠ΄ΠΎΠΌΠΎ, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 34 792 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 21 July, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by 43 over the last 30 days and by -8 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
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2026 July 22
The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud and the Chandelier Cluster
Image Credit: DES/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Image Processing: T.A. Rector (UAA/NOIRLab), R. Colombari & M. Zamani (NOIRLab)
Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
The Southern Crown (Corona Australis) dazzles with young and ancient celestial jewels. The Corona Australis Cloud is a collage of reflection and emission nebulae on the left of todayβs image. At 430 light years away, this cloud is one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth. It contains gas cool enough (-260 Celsius or -440 Fahrenheit) to collapse into protostars. Recently formed stars paint blue hues across the cloud as their light reflects off surrounding material. The waltz of the R Coronae Australis binary system stirs up the nebula NGC 6729. The younger of the pair ionizes nearby gas with its ultraviolet light, causing it to glow. The Chandelier Cluster (NGC 6723) dangles from the top right, but is actually tens of thousands of light years farther away than its apparent star-forming neighbor. While NGC 6723 experienced multiple periods of star formation creating slightly younger stars, the chandelier twinkles with stars almost as old as the universe.
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| 2 | π Opinion Poll | 1 835 |
| 3 |  2026 July 21
Turtle Rock on Mars
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS; Processing & License: Thomas Thomopoulos
Is this a fossilized turtle on Mars? No. Although resembling a large Earth tortoise, this is a layered rock outcrop on Mars that is estimated to span about 15 meters, making it much larger than turtles on Earth. NASAβs robotic Curiosity rover came across this unusual mound, dubbed Miraflores, last month during its 4922nd Martian day exploring Mars. The small butte may survive because it was somehow more resistant to erosion than surrounding rock. More recent wind has now covered its top with orange Martian sand. Below the top shell, many layers of stratified rock are visible, possibly indicating a long history of intermittent wind-blown sand being deposited and then hardened by ground water. Similar wind-eroded layered landforms, such as yardangs in the Qaidam Desert of China, exist here on Earth. Curiosity and its companion rover Perseverance continue to investigate the ancient history of Mars as well as searching for signs of primeval life.
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| 4 | Which type of complex carbon molecules were detected in the Statue of Liberty Nebula and may have played an important role in the early Solar System? | 2 571 |
| 5 | Tomorrow's picture: not a turtle π’ | 2 621 |
| 6 |  2026 July 20
NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Logan Carpenter
What's happening in the Statue of Liberty nebula? Bright stars and interesting molecules are forming and being liberated. The complex nebula resides in the star forming region called RCW 57, and besides the iconic monument, to some looks like a flying superhero or a weeping angel. This re-assigned color image showcases dense knots of dark interstellar dust, fields of glowing hydrogen gas ionized by these stars, and great loops of gas expelled by dying stars. A detailed study of NGC 3576, also known as NGC 3582 and NGC 3584, uncovered at least 33 massive stars in the end stages of formation, and the clear presence of the complex carbon molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are thought to be created in the cooling gas of star forming regions, and their development in the Sun's formation nebula five billion years ago may have been an important step in the development of life on Earth.
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| 7 | Tomorrow's picture: flying star statue | 2 942 |
| 8 | Why couldn't scientists simply collect the same solar wind samples on Earth? | 3 099 |
| 9 |  2026 July 19
Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert
Image Credit: USAF 388th Range Sqd., Genesis Mission, NASA
A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. The year was 2004, and no space aliens were involved. The saucer, pictured here, was the Genesis sample return capsule, part of a human-made robot Genesis spaceship launched in 2001 by NASA itself to study the Sun. The unexpectedly hard landing at over 300 kilometers per hour occurred because the parachutes did not open as planned. The Genesis mission had been orbiting the Sun collecting solar wind particles that are usually deflected away by Earth's magnetic field. Despite the crash landing, many return samples remained in good enough condition to analyze. Genesis-related discoveries included new details about the composition of the Sun and how the abundance of some types of elements differ across the Solar System. These results have provided intriguing clues into details of how the Sun and planets formed billions of years ago.
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| 10 | Tomorrow's picture:Β it came from space | 3 245 |
| 11 |  2026 July 18
Shadow and Rainbow
Image Credit & License: Dave Loschiavo
At sunset, an alignment of rainbow and mountain shadow was captured in this remarkable snapshot. The stunning view was recorded from a fire lookout on Smith Peak in the Plumas National Forest near Portola, California on July 13. Still, near sunset it's no accident that the majestic mountain shadow seems to point to the center of the graceful rainbow arc. Due to perspective and the long line of sight the mountain shadow naturally forms a tapering triangular shape, its apex positioned at the point opposite the Sun on the horizon. Following thunderstorms across the region, the rainbow arcs across the early evening sky, with its colorful and characteristic 42 degree arc formed as sunlight is refracted and reflected by the atmospheric water droplets. The geometric center of a rainbow arc lies at the antisolar point. And in this scene from the golden hour on planet Earth, that's also oposite the setting Sun along the distant horizon.
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| 12 | Tomorrow's picture:Β the antisolar horizon | 3 647 |
| 13 | Why might Tempel 2's dust trail appear narrower and brighter around July 20? | 3 911 |
| 14 |  2026 July 17
The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2
Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett
Comet 10P/Tempel 2 orbits the Sun once every 5.4 years. Currently visible in binoculars or small telescopes toward the constellation Capricornus, the periodic comet is captured in this sharp telescopic image from July 11 sporting a bright nuclear region and pretty greenish coma. Remarkably, a thin dust trail, not a typical dust tail, is also seen extending both east and west of the Tempel 2 nucleus. Unlike a comet dust tail, which tends to temporarily fan out in a direction away from the Sun, this dust trail is due to the residual dust shed during many past orbits along this ancient periodic comet's orbital plane. In fact, Tempel 2's dust trail may get a little narrower and brighter from our perspective as Earth crosses through the comet's orbital plane on July 20. Comet 10P/Tempel 2 will reach a perihelion on August 2, and make its closest approach to Earth on August 3.
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| 16 | What creates the colorful glowing clouds in NGC 300? | 4 131 |
| 17 |  2026 July 16
NGC 300: A Cosmic Gemstone with Stars and Gas Clouds
Image Credit & Copyright: Team Ciel Austral; Team Members: P. Bernhard, L. Bourgon, J. C. Canonne, D. Chaplain, G. Chassaigne, N. Outters, M. Selby, S. Vetter
Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
This sparkling, colorful gemstone is a spiral galaxy, NGC 300. It is one of the closest spiral galaxies to Earth, only about 6 million light-years away. But does it really look like this? (Here is a more standard portrait of it.) This unusual image combines the light from the stars and dust within the galaxy with the light from ionized clouds of interstellar gas shown in red (Sulphur), green (Hydrogen) and blue (Oxygen). Combining red and green light in different proportions makes yellow or orange light, most visible in the image. Light from ionized gas is also at work in neon signs, fluorescent tubes and street lights. These massive clouds of ionized gas are typically created by young, massive stars that produce high-energy ultraviolet radiation capable of ionizing the gas. Massive stars are short-lived, compared with lighter stars like our sun, and explode as supernovas at the end of their lives. Some of the colorful clouds in the image could be hiding supernova remnants.
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| 18 | What causes the red glow of a red sprite? | 3 931 |
| 19 | Tomorrow's picture: a galaxy bursting with excitement | 4 133 |
| 20 | π¨οΈ Tell us what you think! | 4 460 |
