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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.
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