APW | Astronomy Pix of the Week: January 8-14, 2012

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  Lighthouse and Meteor

• Facing NGC 6946

• Bright Star Regulus near the Leo I Dwarf Galaxy

• Little Planet Lovejoy

• The Case of the Missing Supernova Companion

• Saturn’s Iapetus: Painted Moon

• NGC 6369: The Little Ghost Nebula

APW is a weekly installment, published each Saturday between 7:31 and 8:30 am, with links to each daily entry on NASA’s website Astronomy Picture of the Day. I hope you enjoy looking at these often breathtaking images as much as I do.

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This Image created by Troy Loy, 2012, via XaoS for the Mac.