These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
In today's image, we see a number of images taken over the timespan of 2 hours and 30 minutes. This is about one quarter of a day on Jupiter which rotates...
In today's image, we see an image of the aurora or norther lights as seen from an airplane. The red and green colors are both caused by the excitation...
In today's image, we see the command module from the Apollo 17 mission from December of 1972 against the background of our Moon. The was the final mission...
In today's image, we see a deep image of the region around Orion. The prominent stars in Orion are there, but not as prominent as we are used to because...
In today's image, we see the star cluster known by its catalog designation of IC 348. Many young clusters like this are hidden by dust and not well...