NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

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2025 February 12 - Asteroid Bennu Holds the Building Blocks of Life

Posted February 12, 202500:04:00

In today's image, we see a video showing the asteroid Bennu as it rotates out in space. A sample of this was returned to Earth and has been found to...

2025 February 11 - The Spider and the Fly

Posted February 11, 2025

In today's image, we see two nebulae in a star forming region which are whimsically known as the Spider Nebula and the Fly Nebula.


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2025 February 10 - An Auroral Hummingbird over Norway

Posted February 10, 202500:04:12

In today's image, we see a pattern of lights in the sky known as an aurora. These are caused by particles from solar storms interacting with atoms in...

2025 February 09 - Milky Way over Australian Pinnacles

Posted February 9, 2025

In today's image, we see the pinnacles in Australia in the foreground and the Milky Way and Zodiacal Light in the sky above. You can also note the crescent...

2025 February 08 - A Conjunction of Crescents

Posted February 8, 202500:03:39

In today's image, we see two crescents in the evening sky. We see our Moon, just a few days after the new moon phase and we see the planet Venus which...