These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
In today's image, we see the Horsehead Nebula in Orion. This is a dark nebula, which blocks out the light from behind it. Within the nebula, new stars...
In today's image, we see a video clip that will show a trip through the star clouds of the Milky Way and into the central regions of the galaxy itself....
In today's image, we see two images of our planet Earth as taken from two distant spacecraft on the same day in July of 2013.
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In today's image, we see the Medusa Nebula, an example of a planetary nebula which is the end-state of lower mass stars including our own Sun.
In today's image, we see the star forming region now as the Elephant's trunk which is visible in the constellation of Cepheus in the northern sky.