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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Colorful Aurora over New Zealand

Image Credit & Copyright: Tristian McDonald

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241016.ht #APOD

A night sky is shown that appears mostly red due to pervasive aurora. In the foreground is covered by watery grasslands. Clouds are visible above the horizon. Thin green aurora are visible toward the top of the frame. In the background one can find the Moon, the LMC, SMC, Venus, a meteor, and the band of our Milky Way galaxy.
16 October at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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The Moon Dressed Like Saturn

Image Credit & Copyright: Francisco Sojuel

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240901.ht #APOD

The featured image shows a crescent Moon over a city and volcano with a flat cloud running through the center that makes the Moon look a bit like the planet Saturn.
1 September at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge

Image Credit & Copyright: Josh Dury

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240812.ht #APOD

A night sky filled with stars and the band of our Milky Way galaxy is shown also filled with many streaks. The short streaks are all coordinated and together indicate a flow from the top of the image to the bottom. In the foreground at the bottom of the frame is Stonehenge.
12 August at 6:43 | Open on botsin.space
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Storm Cloud Over Texas

Image Credit & Copyright: Laura Rowe (Used with permission)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240806.ht #APOD

A large storm cloud is pictured hovering over a flat landscape with telephone poles. The background sky is blue. The cloud appears orange at the bottom, yellow at the top, white in the middle, with dark gray overtones all around.
6 August at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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How to Identify that Light in the Sky

Illustration Credit & Copyright: HK (The League of Lost Causes)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240609.ht #APOD

An illustration is shown which is a decision tree for identifying a light that might be seen in the sky. The background is gray, and the text is black in red-lined boxes.
9 June at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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G 🇮🇹

@APoD i admit i lolled at "are your retinas burning" 😆

9 June at 7:45 | Open on mastodon.social
Steveg58

@APoD
My eyes are not going to be good enough to identify the ISS.

9 June at 7:48 | Open on aus.social
Tor Kingdon

@APoD there should be something that leads to Venus, because every time someone asks me about that really bright thing they saw, it was Venus.

9 June at 8:01 | Open on urbanists.social
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AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group

Image Credit & Copyright: Franco Fantasia & Guiseppe Conzo (Gruppo Astrofili Palidoro)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240511.ht #APOD

The Sun is shown in black and white showing dark sunspots on the far right. The large sunspot group is expanded in an inset image at the bottom left.
11 May at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Planets Around a Total Eclipse

Image Credit: Stéphane Vetter (Nuits sacrées)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240410.ht #APOD

A totally eclipsed Sun is seen in the sky surrounded by a bright corona. In the foreground several people watch it near a large tree. To the right of the eclipsed Sun is the bright planet Venus, while the nearly-as- bright planet Jupiter is to the left.
10 April at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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A Picturesque Equinox Sunset

Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Dyer, Amazingsky.com, TWAN

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240319.ht #APOD

The sun sets in the distance at the horizon end of a long road over open country. The sunset is very orange, as is the surrounding sky. Telephone poles line the right side of the road.
19 March at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow

Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Lopez (El Cielo de Canarias)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240314.ht #APOD
14 March at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Comet Pons-Brooks in Northern Spring

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in Opava

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9 March at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Light Pillars Over Inner Mongolia

Image Credit & Copyright: N. D. Liao

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240304.ht #APOD

Numerous thin pillars of light connect a landscape filled with snow to a star filled sky. The Big Dipper can be seen through the colorful pillars.
4 March at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Supernova Remnant Simeis 147

Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Vetter (Nuits sacrées)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240227.ht #APOD

A large filamentary nebula is shown dominated by red glow but with bits of blue on the lower left. The nebula is shown in a dense starfield surrounded by other faint red-glowing nebulae.
27 February at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Camera Orion Rising

Image Credit & Copyright: Marcin Ślipko

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240131.ht #APOD

A snowy landscape is pictured with a big hill in the center. Above the hill is a starfield with the stars and nebulae of the constellation Orion appearing, with the red glow of the nebulas in great contrast to the dark sky and bright snow.
31 January at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Circling the Sun

Image Credit & Copyright: Radoslav Zboran

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240113.ht #APOD
13 January at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
done

@APoD good old 22 degree halo. It’s nice knowing we still have an atmosphere!

13 January at 11:06 | Open on mastodon.social
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The Same Color Illusion

Image Credit: Edward H. Adelson, Wikipedia

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A checkerboard is shown with squares colored light and dark grey. A green tube sits on the board and casts a shadow. The image has a letter A typed on a dark square, and a letter B types on a light square cast in shadow. The question is asked if the two squares, A and B, are really the same color.
18 Dec 2023 at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Aurora and Milky Way over Norway

Image Credit & Copyright: Giulio Cobianchi

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231212.ht #APOD

A night sky filled with stars is shown behind a picturesque foreground. The foreground contains rounded rocks and a person before a distant sea. The background contains bands of the Milky Way and bright aurora.
12 Dec 2023 at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Plane Crossing Crescent Moon

Image Credit & Copyright: Juned Patel

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A thin crescent moon is shown with a bright red contrail going through it, right to left.
4 Dec 2023 at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Andromeda over the Alps

Image Credit & Copyright: Dzmitry Kananovich

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231113.ht #APOD

The night sky over a snowy mountain is shown, with the dark sky dominated by a large spiral galaxy -- the Andromeda galaxy.
13 Nov 2023 at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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jakob 🇦🇹 ✅
gergo
StarkRG

@APoD If the full scale of Andromeda was visible to the naked eye, our entire mythology would have been drastically different. Planets-shmamets, the big oval thing with a bright centre is obviously a major god.

13 Nov 2023 at 8:56 | Open on myside-yourside.net
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The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies

Image Credit & Copyright: Marcelo Rivera

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231102.ht #APOD
2 Nov 2023 at 7:28 | Open on botsin.space
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Arp 87: Merging Galaxies from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: Harshwardhan Pathak

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231024.ht #APOD

Three large galaxies are shown, the rightmost two in collision. The galaxy on the far right is a large spiral galaxy with one arm connected to an unusual polar galaxy on the left. The smaller galaxy on the far left is thought to be far in the background.
26 Oct 2023 at 13:28 | Open on botsin.space
Sternwarte Vach (Andy)

@APoD oh i can't wait to try this one! In January good visible around midnight on northern hemisphere

26 Oct 2023 at 15:36 | Open on hostux.social
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