NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see a processed image of the Sun setting behind a bell tower. Staring at this image for about 30 seconds and then looking at a white screen will give you an inverted view showing…

In today's image, we see a number of images of Mars showing its retrograde loop which occurred between December of last year and February of this year. The loop occurs because Earth overtakes Mars in…

In today's image, we see a member of our local group of galaxies, an irregular dwarf galaxy known as Sextans A.

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In today's image, we see what is known as a Herbig-Haro object which is formed as jets of material are expelled from a protostar as it is in the process of formation.

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In today's image, we see the regions around the constellation of Ophiuchus. Here we see part of our own Milky Way, red emission nebulae, and blue reflection nebulae.

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In today's image, we see the barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 2566 as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. The cross pattern at the center of the galaxy is an artifact of the Webb's optics and …

In today's image, we see an image taken by the Juno spacecraft as it passed below Jupiter. Juno has been studying Jupiter for nearly a decade now, giving us a closeup look at the largest planet in th…

In today's image, we see one of the moons of Mars as imaged by the Perseverance rover several months ago. This image was created from several images which were combined together to bring out the deta…

In today's image, we see the globular star cluster NGC 6366 and the nearby star 47 Ophiuchi.

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In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as M63. In this deep exposure, we can see the curled edges of the galaxy, likely caused by tidal interactions from small nearby galaxies.

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In today's image, we see an image of the Sun, with multiple images of the International Space Station as the ISS passes directly in front of the Sun from this location.

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In today's image, we see the plane of our Milky Way in the skies over the Mauna Kea observatory in Hawaii.

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In today's image, we see a flyover of Pluto's moon, Charon created from images gathered by the new Horizons spacecraft when it flew by the dwarf planet back in July of 2015.

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In today's image, we see the dwarf planet, Pluto in this 2 minute Timelapse video showing a flyover of the dwarf planet constructed from images taken by New Horizons in July 2015.

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In today's image, we see landing site of the fictional Ares 3 craft on Mars as shown in the novel the Martian. The coloration is blue because of the specific camera used on the Mars Reconnaissance Or…

In today's image, we see the galaxy known as Messier 101. This is an example of a spiral galaxy seen face-on. This allows us to see the details in the spiral arms.

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In today's image, we see an image of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft which flew by Pluto nearly a decade ago.

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In today's image, we see the planetary nebula known as the Robin's Egg Nebula. A planetary nebula is the end state of a star much like our own Sun where the outer layers are expelled out into space a…

In today's image, we see a reconstructed image of our Milky Way as viewed from the top. The image is created using data from the Gaia spacecraft which was recently retired in March of this year.

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In today's image, we see a reconstructed image of our Milky Way as viewed from the side. The image is created using data from the Gaia spacecraft which was recently retired in March of this year.

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