NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see Jupiter, its faint ring, and several of its moons as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope in the infrared.

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In today's image, we see a video showing the Sun rising in real time. The sun is partially eclipsed, so we see two distinct parts of the Sun rising over the horizon at first, before they join togethe…

In today's image, we see image in a timelapse from the Parker Solar Probe which studies then Sun. We will see six of the eight planets, a comet, and a star cluster in addition to the solar wind and a…

In today's image, we see one of the moons of Saturn, Helene. This is now as a Trojan moon which orbits at a Lagrange point - this is a stable position in the gravitational well of Saturn and one of i…

In today's image, we see an image from the Apollo 17 mission where the astronauts made repairs to their rover using duct tape. The repair to the fender kept the rover's wheels from kicking up dust as…

In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as Messier 81. This is a relatively nearby galaxy, about 11.8 million light years away. Distances to nearby spiral galaxies like this one can be dete…

In today's image, we see the region known as the Pacman Nebula. This is a star forming region, showing dark globules within the nebula where stars are currently forming.

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In today's image, we see three images of the total lunar eclipse from a week ago. The red glow if from light coming through the main part of Earth's atmosphere. The blue band is from sunlight passing…

In today's image, we see a timelapse showing the total lunar eclipse that occurred this last week. We can watch the stars and Milky Way become ore visible as the Moon's light fades.

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In today's image, we see an are on Mars which once contained liquid water. Mars is no longer able to have water in liquid form because of its low atmospheric pressure, but there is strong evidence th…

In today's image, we see an image of a rock on Mars. This rock was capped with a laser which can then be heard through the thin Martial atmosphere as a series of pops.

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In today's image, we see three galaxies in the constellation of Leo known as the Leo Triplet. These are three spiral galaxies but are seen in different orientations, giving us different views of each…

In today's image, we see an analemma of the Sun, formed by taking an image of the Sun at regular intervals over the course of a year. The analemma gets its shape from a combination of Earth's tilt an…

In today's image, we see a solar eclipse as seen from our Moon. In this case, it is the Earth passing in front of the Sun, blocking out its light. Here we see the ring of Earth's atmosphere with ligh…

In today's image, we see the dark nebula known by its more popular name of the Shark Nebula.

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In today's image, we see the nebula known by the popular name of Thor's Hemet. Much of the nebula is a bubble of material being expelled by a hot, young Wolf-Rayet star.

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In today's image, we see the transit of Venus from 2012, when Venus passed directly in front of our Sun. This event will not occur again until 2117.

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In today's image, we see three images from the total eclipse from yesterday. The Moon appears this blood read color because of light bend by Earth's atmosphere which fills Earth's shadow with a deep …

In today's image, we see our Moon rising off in the distance as the Sun sets behind the observer. We can also see the shadow of the mountain against the distant sky.

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In today's image, we see the region in Lynds 483 where a pair of protostars are forming at the center with a great outflow of material into the surrounding area.

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