These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
In today's image, we see the Orion Nebula below. This is an emission nebula showing the red glow of hydrogen gas which has been excited. Above is the...
In today's image, we see the asteroid known as Dimorphos just a few seconds before the DART craft impacted into its surface. This was an experiment...
In today's image, we see a map of the world showing the brightness of the night sky caused by artificial lighting here on Earth. In may of the more...
In today's image, we see the Large Magellanic Cloud, the nearest satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. In this deep exposure, we can see that there...
In today's image, we see Jupiter and Venus as seen from Earth in 2012 when they were about three degrees apart in the sky, with a person set between...