NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

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 Orbiter.

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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 and the core condenses down to a compact white dwarf.

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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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In today's image, we see one of the rare images of the surface of Venus. Because Venus is covered in clouds, it cannot be imaged directly from space. The conditions on the surface are very hostile so a craft can only survive for a short time on the surface.

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In today's image, we see a 3D image from the surface of Mars showing the Sojourner rover on Mars as well as the Pathfinder lander and several rock features on Mars, including one names Yogi.

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In today's image, we see an artist's rendering of the jet of material being emitted from around a black hole. Recent observations have determine that the x-rays being produces are from energetic electrons.

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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 two images of the Crab Nebula showing the expansion that has taken place in the time between these two images.

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In today's image, we see a pair of galaxies which are in the process of merging. Galactic mergers like this can take billions of years as the galaxies will make many approaches to one another before finally merging into a single galaxy.

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In today's image, we see a computer simulation of two supermassive black holes and their accretion disks in orbit around one another.

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In today's image, we see lines of reflected light from planets and our Moon as seen across the surface of the Mediterranean Sea.

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In today's image, we see an artist's conception of the accretion disk and jet of a supermassive black hole. Recent measurements have shown that black holes are spinning at close to a limit as measured my material at the inner edge of the accretion disk moving at close to the speed of light.

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In today's image, we see the large moon of Saturn known as Titan. This is the only moon in the solar system with a significant atmosphere and the only object (other than Earth!) that has a liquid present on its surface.

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In today's image, we see a young star cluster, NGC 346, located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The energy from the hot stars in the cluster shapes the material around the cluster.

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In today's image, we see an image from the MESSENGER spacecraft. The center of this region is the expect place on Mercury where MESSENGER crashes into the surface at the end of its mission ten years ago.

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In today's image, we see three solar system objects in the sky which form a smiley face in the sky. These include the thin, waning crescent Moon, the planet Venus, and the planet Saturn.

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In today's image, we see six images of Saturn taken from 2020-2025. Over this time, the rings system tilt changes which leads us to be unable to see the rings of Saturn this year.

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In today's image, we see the Gum 37 nebula which is part of a molecular cloud in which stars are forming. The tadpoles are regions of higher density which remain as lower density gas is washed away.

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In today's image, we see a planetary nebula known as the Spirograph Nebula. A planetary nebula is the end state of a star much like our own Sun. The core compacts down to a white dwarf star while the outer layers expand into the planetary nebula we see.

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In today's image, we see an example of a barred spiral galaxy with a distinct bar running through its central regions. These are a relatively common type of spiral galaxy and many other galaxies are visible as well in this image collected the Hubble Space Telescope, not starting its 35th year of observing the universe.

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In today's image, we see the asteroid Donaldjohanson which was recently visited by the Lucy spacecraft. This craft will fly by several asteroids and will eventually student the Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter's orbit. The first visit to one of these asteroids is scheduled for August 2027.

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In today's image, we see the nebula around a hot, young O-type star. This is the type os star what will eventually (in a few mission years) end its life in a supernova explosion.

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In today's image, we see a number of things in the sky including our own Milky Way galaxy, the zodiacal light, the aurora, and even a meteor.

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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 there are significant shadows.

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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 galaxy as shown here.

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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.

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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 and the outer layers are expelled out into space.

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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 Space Telescope in the infrared.

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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 possibility of some simple martian life in the caverns, shielded from the ultraviolet light of the Sun which sterilizes the surface.

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