These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
In today's image, we see M57 also known as the Ring Nebula. This is an example of a planetary nebula which is the end state of most stars, including...
In today's image, we see our Milky Way galaxy, a Perseid meteor, several examples of red sprite lightning, and Nova RS Ophiuchus.
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In today's image, we see the "rain" of the Perseid meteors. We note that the "rain" appears to come from a point near the top of the image in the constellation...
In today's image, we see a number of objects at widely varying distances from us. The meteor is a small grain of material from comet Swift-Tuttle burning...
In today's image, we see a spiral galaxy as seen almost directly from above (or below!) The galaxy shows the distinct dust lanes, red hydrogen regions,...