NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see and image of the Moon, but not a single image - this is multiple mages stitched together to give a better idea of the structure on the Moon as we look at each area where ther…

In today's image, we see a galaxy lensing another galaxy lined up directly behind it. When the alignment is perfect, the more distant galaxy will appear in an Einstein ring around the foreground gala…

In today's image, we see the nearby star forming region known as the Orion Nebula. The image is a combination of visible and infrared light images.

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In today's image, we see an image from the Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter. The image has been modified using a digital oil painting filter to give the appearance of an oil painting.

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In today's image, we see a comet currently visible with binoculars or a small telescope in the sky. Comet SWAN will be making its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on May 1.

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In today's image, we see the Virgo galaxy cluster, the nearest large galaxy cluster to our own local group of galaxies. This includes the giant elliptical known as M87 to the lower right of the image…

In today's image, we see the Cat's Eye nebula. The is an example of a planetary nebula. Here we look at an image which enhances the outer layers to make them more easily visible.

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In today's image, we see a planetary nebula as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. A planetary nebula is the end state of a star much like our own Sun where the core compacts to a white dwarf a…

In today's image, we see the region around the center of our galaxy as imaged by an array of radio telescope in South Africa. The inset image is a small portion that has been imaged by the James Webb…

In today's image, we see a region of Mars including a hole where a meteor may have punched a hole through the Martian surface and into some caverns below. If this is correct, it may mean there is the…

In today's image, we see our Moon near the edge of a building in Manhattan. The moon is bright enough to be visible in the day, especially during certain phases.

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In today's image, we see a thin crescent Venus and the International Space Station as they pass close to one another in the sky.

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In today's image, we see a deep exposure of the M81 group of galaxies. The two most prominent galaxies here are in the slow process of a galaxy merger that will eventually leave just a single galaxy.…

In today's image, we see HH 49, a Herbig-Haro object caused by the jet of material being expelled from eh region around a young star. The object at the tip of the jet turned out to be a distant galax…

In today's image, we see the moon in conjunction with the Pleiades star cluster. These conjunctions (and occultations) will occur over the next few years because of the specific position of the Moon'…

In today's image, we see an example of a flocculant spiral galaxy, which is a galaxy without distinct spiral arms.

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In today's image, we see an image from the Apollo 11 mission with a seismograph being set up on the lunar surface. Detections if seismic waves have show that moonquakes are more common than expected.

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In today's image, we see the partial solar eclipse from this past week, where our Moon passed in front of our Sun, blocking out a portion of its light. This was near the end of the first eclipse seas…

In today's image, we see the compact group Hickson 44. Compact groups of galaxies are galaxies seen in the same small area of the sky and are often related to and interacting with one another.

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In today's image, we see the thing crescent moon, only a day or so after the new moon. While only a small portion of the Moon is directly illuminated by the Sun, The rest of the Moon can be seen illu…