These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
In today's image, we see the rings of Saturn as well as two of Saturn's moons as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft over a decade ago.
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In today's image, we see the extremely long tail of Comet Leonard stretching across the sky. Comet Leonard makes its closest approach to the Sun today...
In today's image, we see a quadruple lunar halo around our Moon. The halos are caused by moonlight refracting off of hexagonal ice crystals in Earth's...
In today's image, we see the set of 12 full moons from 2021. We can see how the apparent diameter of the Moon changes as the Moon moves closer to and...
In today's image, we see the track of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as it heads out to the L2 point beyond the Moon where it will be in orbit....