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Astronomy Picture Of the Day A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day
APOD: 2024 August 14 – Meteors and Aurora over Germany
This was an unusual night.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240814.html
APOD: 2024 August 12 – Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge
What's happening in the sky above Stonehenge?
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240812.html
APOD: 2024 August 10 - The Light, Dark, and Dusty Trifid
The Light, Dark, and Dusty Trifid
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240810.html
APOD: 2024 August 8 - Periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle
A Halley-type comet with an orbital period of about 133 years,
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240808.html
APOD: 2024 August 6 – Storm Cloud Over Texas
What makes this storm cloud so colorful?
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240806.html
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What would it look like to return home from outside our galaxy?
APOD: 2024 August 2 - Mars Passing By
Mars Passing By
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240802.html
APOD: 2024 July 31 – Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks
What is creating these unusual spots?
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240731.html
APOD: 2024 July 29 – Milky Way over Uluru
What's happening above Uluru?
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240729.html
APOD: 2024 July 27 - Saturn at the Moon s Edge
Saturn now rises before midnight in planet Earth's sky.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240727.html
APOD: 2024 July 25 - NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240725.html
APOD: 2024 July 23 – The Crab Nebula from Visible to X Ray
What powers the Crab Nebula?
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240723.html
APOD: 2024 July 19 - Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet Festival
Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet Festival
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240719.html
APOD: 2024 July 16 – Cometary Globules
What are these unusual interstellar structures?
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240716.html
APOD: 2024 July 14 – Meteor Misses Galaxy
The galaxy was never in danger.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240714.html
APOD: 2024 August 13 – Giant Jet from the International Space Station
What's that on the horizon?
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240813.html
APOD: 2024 August 11 – Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower
https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/perseids
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240811.html
Where do Perseid meteors come from?
APOD: 2024 August 9 - A Perseid Below
Denizens of planet Earth typically watch meteor showers
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240809.html
APOD: 2024 August 7 – Milky Way Behind Three Merlons
To some, they look like battlements,
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240807.html
APOD: 2024 August 5 – Milky Way Over Tunisia
That's
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240805.html
APOD: 2024 August 3 - Glory and Fog Bow
On a road trip up
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240803.html
APOD: 2024 August 1 - Comet Olbers over Kunetice Castle
A visitor to the inner solar system every 70 years or so
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240801.html
APOD: 2024 July 30 – Arp 142: Interacting Galaxies from Webb
To some, it looks like a penguin.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240730.html
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Sometimes, the surface of our Sun seems to dance.
APOD: 2024 July 26 - Facing NGC 6946
From our vantage point in the
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240726.html
APOD: 2024 July 24 – Exaggerated Moon
Our Moon doesn't really have craters this big.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240724.html
APOD: 2024 July 20 - Apollo 11 Landing Panorama
Have you seen
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240720.html
APOD: 2024 July 18 - Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud
Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240718.html
APOD: 2024 July 15 – The Tadpole Galaxy from Hubble
Why does this galaxy have such a long tail?
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240715.html
APOD: 2024 July 13 - Solar System Family Portrait
In 1990, cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240713.html