NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see several different objects, including our own Sun with several solar prominences visible along the limb of the Sun. Transiting across the face of the Sun, is the International…

In today's image, we see the Orion spacecraft with our Earth in the background. This was a part of the Artemis I mission to travel to our Moon and test the capabilities of the craft for future missio…

In today's image, we see a prominent aurora from the recent solar storm that impacted Earth about ten days ago as seen in the sky over Greenland.

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In today's image, we see an occultation of the planet Venus by our Moon. An occultation occurs when one object passes directly in front of another, blocking out its light for a time. These occur beca…

In today's image, we see the Crab Nebula which is the remnant of a star seen to explode from Earth nearly a thousand years ago. We are looking at two images taken 18 years apart which allows us to se…

In today's image, we see three of the four brightest objects in the sky in a pattern around rock here on Earth. We have Jupiter to the left, Venus above the rock, and our Moon to the right. The brigh…

In today's image, we see the Andromeda Galaxy. This is taken with a combination of two images - a shorter exposure of the Alps in the foreground and a much longer exposure to being out the detail of …

In today's image, we see the waning gibbous moon (between full moon and third quarter) over the mountains of Sweden. In addition, a plane happened to be captured in the image passing in the same gene…

In today's image, we see our Milky Way galaxy and a SAR (Stable Auroral Red) arc in the sky. The SAR is associated with auroral activity but does occur much higher in our atmosphere than the traditio…

In today's image, we see an extremely distant galaxy and one of the most distant black holes yet discovered. At a distance of 13.2 billion light years, we see this as it was when the universe was jus…

In today's image, we see the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star seen to explode here on Earth nearly a thousand years ago. The nebula is enriched in heavier elements from the explosion which will eve…

In today's image, we see the Perseus Cluster of galaxies about 250 million light year distant. in addition, we see many other galaxies here go out to distances of billions of light years. The Euclid …

In today's image, we see a short video clip showing a dust devil on Mars as captured by the Perseverance Rover. Dust devils will occur on Mars just as they do on Earth and studying them on Mars can h…

In today's image, we see the aurora as seen over Italy just a day ago. This is because of a coronal mass ejection which sent a large number of particle in Earth's direction. The intense storm was abl…

In today's image, we see an aurora in the sky over Norway from about a decade ago. The aurora will become more prominent with increased solar activity so we can expect more auroral activity as the Su…

In today's image, we see the asteroid Dinkinesh which is the first of a dozen or so asteroids to be explored by the Lucy spacecraft which is exploring the asteroid belt. This will hopefully give us a…

In today's image, we see our Moon and the planet Jupiter in the same image. Jupiter is currently at opposition which means that it is opposite to the Sun in the sky. This makes it nicely visible all …

In today's image, we see one of the nearer galaxy clusters to our solar system which is known as the Fornax Cluster. The dominant galaxies in this cluster are the two giant elliptical galaxies toward…

In today's image, we see the recent annular solar eclipse as seen from Utah, USA. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon is a bit farther away and is not able to completely block out the Sun, leavin…

In today's image, we see the Wizard Nebula which is a star forming region which consists of a large amount of gas and dust - some of which is still in the process of forming stars. Halloween is actua…