NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

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2022 December 15 - Full Moon, Full Mars

Posted December 15, 202200:04:16

In today's image, we see Mars as it disappeared behind our Moon for about an hour on December 8 during the occultation that was visible from much of...

2022 December 14 - Lunar Dust and Duct Tape

Posted December 14, 202200:04:00

In today's image, we see the lunar rover from the Apollo 17 mission from December 1972 - the last time humans landed on our Moon. The dust is the lunar...

2022 December 13- An Artful Sky over Lofoten Island

Posted December 13, 202200:04:26

In today's image, we see an image of the sky over Norway. It it, we see two galaxies, our own Milky Way as well as the Andromeda Galaxy. We also see...

2022 December 12 - An Unusual Globule in IC 1396

Posted December 12, 202200:03:29

In today's image, we see IC 1396, also known as the Elephant's Trunk Nebula. This is a part of a star forming region. The cometary globule toward the...

2022 December 11 - Io in True Color

Posted December 11, 202200:04:05

In today's image, we see Io as imaged by the Galileo Spacecraft back in 1999. This shows Io in true color as would be seen by the typical human eye....