The sky on
your birthday.
“IC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula” is copyrighted by Neil Fleming. NASA has permission to show it and we don't, so it isn't on this card.
See it on NASA's siteInside the Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146, a new cluster of stars is developing. The nebula is nearly fifteen light-years wide and about four thousand light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. Like other star-forming regions, it glows in red hydrogen gas excited by hot young stars. Blue dust-reflected starlight marks the edge of an otherwise invisible molecular cloud.
The Earth on 5 March 2009 · Pilbara, Western Australia
NASA Terra took this picture on 5 March 2009, the day itself, not a release date.
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Released on your day
Space pictures released on your month and day in other years, or a few days either side. Each one is sharp enough to print as a poster.
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The Earth on your day The Earth on 5 March 2009 · Pilbara, Western Australia See it as a poster -
Released on 5 March 2018 Galaxy full of cosmic lighthouses See it as a poster -
Released on 5 March 2020 The night lights of Seoul, South Korea, and surrounding cities are pictured from the International Space Station as it See it as a poster -
Released on 5 March 2025 An atmospheric glow blankets Earth's horizon as city lights outline the northwestern coast of the United States See it as a poster -
Released on 5 March 2025 City lights dot the Canadian landscape underneath an aurora See it as a poster -
Released on 5 March 2026 Iquique, Chile, at the base of a steep coastal slope just west of the Atacama Desert See it as a poster
In tropical astrology, 5 MAR 2009 falls under Pisces (♓). The sign's window runs from 02-19 through 03-20. Pisces holds the location of the spring equinox in the current astronomical era. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 5 MAR 2009.