{"id":213808,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/213808-picture-of-the-day-06-24-26-wikimedia-commons","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/213808","headline":"Picture of the Day 06/24/26 - Wikimedia Commons","content":"\u003cp\u003eThe Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (Messier 24) is a dust-free window into distant regions of the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye in dark skies. This 3-panel mosaic spans only a small portion of the star cloud in near infrared and visible light. The field includes the open clusters  NGC 6603 (left) and Collinder 469 (center), the dark nebula  Barnard 92 (right), and the H-II region Sharpless 41 (green glow). Tonight, the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud can be seen all night from most of the world.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eBrainandforce, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. \u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messier_24_(infrared,_red,_green).jpg\" title=\"View On WikiCommons\"\u003eView source.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","content_plain":"The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (Messier 24) is a dust-free window into distant regions of the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye in dark skies. This 3-panel mosaic spans only a small portion of the star cloud in near infrared and visible light. The field includes the open clusters  NGC 6603 (left) and Collinder 469 (center), the dark nebula  Barnard 92 (right), and the H-II region Sharpless 41 (green glow). Tonight, the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud can be seen all night from most of the world.\n        Brainandforce, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.","published_at":"2026-06-24T07:16:00-07:00","updated_at":"2026-06-24T07:16:01-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"Photogems","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/100062-photogems"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with Photogems on Kudos 365. View their photo published Jun/24/2026 on Photography. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"photo","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/d0dd8ace-04fc-4d34-9276-16db29e7345b.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","categories":[{"name":"Photography","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/918-photography"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/213808-picture-of-the-day-06-24-26-wikimedia-commons","headline":"Picture of the Day 06/24/26 - Wikimedia Commons","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/d0dd8ace-04fc-4d34-9276-16db29e7345b.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Photogems","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/100062-photogems"},"datePublished":"2026-06-24T07:16:00-07:00","subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Photography","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/918-photography"}]}}