These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
In today's image, we see the aurora - in this case the Southern Lights from the SOFIA aircraft. SOFIA flies in the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere...
In today's image, we see a tree with the image aligned so that the branch points in the direction of Polaris which is the relatively bright star which...
In today's image, we see our Moon rising up above the horizon. We also see crepuscular rays around it. This is an atmospheric effect caused by Earth's...
In today's image, we see comet NEOWISE from the Summer of 2020 in a time-lapse as it rises before our Sun. We also see noctilucent (Night shining) clouds...
In today's image, we see an image of our Moon. You may find the Moon hard to see here because the phase is New Moon when our Moon is between Earth and...