These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
In today's image, we see the largest of the two moons of Mars with the planet in the background. Phobos is in a very low and decaying orbit and will...
In today's image, we see a spiral shaped aurora over Iceland. The aurora are caused when charged particles from our Sun strike Earth's magnetic field...
In today's image, we see an image taken by Neil Armstrong showing Buzz Aldrin setting up an experiment to capture some particles of the solar wind....
In today's image, we see a newly formed star system consisting of a pair of young stars which are expelling material in jets. The material in these...
In today's image, we see a distorted spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Eridanus - the River. The distortion is caused by the gravitational...