NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

In today's image, we see Charon the largest moon of Pluto as imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft back in 2015. Charon is the largest moon in the solar system - in terms of size relative to the object it is orbiting, about half Pluto's size.

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In today's image, we see a cluster of galaxies in the constellation of Hydra. Galaxies tend to group into clusters which thing group into superclusters and filaments.

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In today's image, we see the planetary nebula Tc 1 which is known to have buckyballs in a thin shell around the central star.

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In today's image, we see the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) in an exposes of over 200 hours. This allows us to see a lot of the foreground gas withoin our Milky Way which would otherwise be invisible.

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In today's image, we see the remnant of a star that would have been seen to explode her on Earth 12,000 years ago. At the center would be a pulsar - a rapidly rotating neutron star.

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In today's image, we see Saturn as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft back in 2017 just a couple of days before it plunged into Saturn's atmosphere.

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In today's image, we see an infrared version of the Pillars of Creation image from Hubble. This is part of a start forming region and looking in the infrared allows us to see through the dust and observe more of the star formation.

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In today's image, we see images of the Supermoon and the Micromoon. Today's full moon will be a micro moon which is the full moon that occurs when the Moon it at its greatest distance from Earth - Apogee.

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In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as Messier 104. This is also known as the Sombrero Galaxy. This deep exposure shows its extended halo and stellar streams.

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In today's image, we see the planetary nebula known as NGC 1514 or the Crystal Ball Nebula. The star at the center is actually a binary star with two stars orbiting with a period of about nine years.

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In today's image, we see the planetary nebula known as the Headphone Nebula. This type of nebula is the end state of a star much like our own Sun.

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In today's image, we see a pair of galaxies. A barred spiral above and Burçin's Galaxy below.

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In today's image, we see what are known as Thackeray's Globules. Globules of material in a star forming region which are some of the final bits of material to dissipate.

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In today's image, we see a real-time video showing Phobos passing in front of the Sun as imaged by the Perseverance Rover in 2022.

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In today's image, we see Messier 2 - A globular cluster that dates back to the early history of our galaxy and our universe, about 13 billion years old.

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In today's image, we see the region around WR 134 which is an example of a Wolf-Rayet star - a hot young star that will eventually end its life in a supernova explosion.

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In today's image, we see galaxy clusters colliding. We can especially see this in the x-ray overlay which shows the spiral of swirling gas from the collision.

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In today's image, we see the Dark Wolf Nebula. This is a dark nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius.

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In today's image, we see the nebula known as the Angle Nebula. There are three different types of nebulae located here: blue reflection nebulae, red emission nebulae, and dark dusty nebulae.

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In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy NGC 3169 as it is appearing to be unraveled by its neighbor galaxy which which it is interacting gravitationally.

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In today's image, we see the barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 1300 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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In today's image, we see the aurora as viewed from above from the International Space Station in low Earth orbit.

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In today's image, we see the comet R3 PanSTARRS as it continues moving through Orion in its journey south as it heads back out of our solar system.

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In today's image, we see the Messier Catalog - objects cataloged by the 18th century astronomer Charles Messier who cataloged extended objects which were not comets.

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In today's image, we see the open star cluster NGC 188, which is an old open star cluster - about 7 billion years old. Much older than typical open clusters in the plane of our galaxy.

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In today's image, we see Comet R3 PanSTARRS as it passes close to the Orion Nebula.

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In today's image, we see a video of the Moon setting. This is a realtime video, taken with a telephoto lens which is why the Moon looks unusually large here.

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In today's image, we see comet R3 PanSTARRS which is now heading out of our solar system. Also in the image are the star Rigel and the Witch Head and Orion Nebulae.

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In today's image, we see the craters Messier and Messier A on the moon. These are location in one of the lesser cratered seas or Maria on the lunar surface,

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In today's image, we see the comet known as R3 PanSTARRS as its tail stretches back in front of the distant Witch Head Nebula and the bright star Rigel in the constellation of Orion.

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In today's image, we see a recently detected supernova in an edge-on spiral galaxy. A supernova like this occurs at the end of the life of a massive star with has exhausted all sources of fuel.

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In today's image, we see the retrograde motion of the planets Saturn and Neptune in images taken between May 2025 and February 2026.

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In today's image, we see the Orion region over Mount Teide. The Orion region is one of the nearest star forming regions to us in our galaxy.

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In today's image, we see what are known as superplumes inside Earth, detected by the motions of earthquake waves through Earth's interior. The exact cause of these superplumes is still debated.

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In today's image, we see part of the Triffid Nebula (M20) including desert pillars of material where stars are forming and jets from some of the young stars that are forming.

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In today's image, we see multiple images of Saturn's moon, Titan. The central image is the normal visible light image showing the haz bin the atmosphere. The others show false-color, infrared images giving us a view of the surface of the moon.

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In today's image, we see the set of galaxies known as Markarian's Chain. This is a group of galaxies that appear in a line - they are part of the Virgo Cluster - a nearby galaxy cluster to our own smaller Local Group of galaxies.

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In today's image, we see a simulation showing what waves would be like on Earth and Titan, taking into account the different conditions on each object.

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In today's image, we see multiple images of our Moon, the planet Venus, and the Pleiades star cluster taken as the Moon was setting as a thin crescent earlier this month.

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In today's image, we see what are known as cometary globules which are sometimes formed as part of the star formation process.

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