Astronomy Picture of the Day

                         Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                           professional astronomer.

                                2018 October 11
                                      [2]
                        West Coast Launch and Landing
                Image Credit & Copyright [3] : John Kraus [4]

Explanation: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch dazzled [5] viewers along the
U.S. west coast [6]  after sunset on October 7. Rising from [7]  Vandenberg
Air Force Base, California, planet Earth, the Falcon 9's first stage then
returned to a landing zone some 400 meters from the launch site less than 8
minutes after liftoff. Both launch and first stage landing [8] (left) are
captured in the frame of this two image stack, recorded by a stationary,
sound-activated camera set up on a nearby hill. This Falcon 9 rocket delivered
its payload, an Earth-observing [9]  satellite developed by Argentina's
national space agency, to low Earth orbit. Of course, the Falcon 9 first stage
[10]  had flown before. Following a launch from Vandenberg on July 25 it was
recovered after landing on the autonomous drone ship Just Read the
Instructions [11] .

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  [7] https://www.space.com/
42058-spacex-spectacular-nighttime-rocket-launch-saocom-1a.html
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  [9] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
  [10] ap180421.html
  [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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