NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

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2024 January 20 - Falcon Heavy Boostback Burn

Posted January 20, 2024

In today's image, we see the boost back burn of the side boosters of a Falcon Heavy rocket as they returned to Earth on December 28 of last year. The...

2024 January 19 - Jupiter over 2 Hours and 30 Minutes

Posted January 19, 2024

In today's image, we see a number of images taken over the timespan of 2 hours and 30 minutes. This is about one quarter of a day on Jupiter which rotates...

2024 January 18 - Northern Lights from the Stratosphere

Posted January 18, 2024

In today's image, we see an image of the aurora or norther lights as seen from an airplane. The red and green colors are both caused by the excitation...

2024 January 17 - America and the Sea of Serenity

Posted January 17, 2024

In today's image, we see the command module from the Apollo 17 mission from December of 1972 against the background of our Moon. The was the final mission...

2024 January 16 - The Orion You Can Almost See

Posted January 16, 2024

In today's image, we see a deep image of the region around Orion. The prominent stars in Orion are there, but not as prominent as we are used to because...