These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
In today's image, we see the stone statues of Easter Island in the foreground and the Milky Way up above. The Milky Way is our own spiral galaxy as...
In today's image, we see the nearby star forming region known as the Orion Nebula. This contain a young open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium....
In today's image, we see a dark spot on Jupiter known as the abyss. The darker could on Jupiter are generally lower in the atmosphere than the lighter...
In today's image, we see an image of the night side of Saturn as taken out seven years ago by the Cassini spacecraft, just a couple of days before the...
In today's image, we see NGC 6744, a spiral galaxy. We can se the distinct spiral structure as well as the blue star clusters and pink hydrogen regions...