These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
In today's image, we see the Milky Way above the telescopes of the La Silla observatory in Chile. We are looking in the direction of the center of the...
In today's image, we see an image from day 13 of the flight of Artemis 1 from just a little over a year ago. This is when it reached its greatest distance...
In today's image, we see what is called a landspout - similar to a waterspout but occurring over land. These objects form around the edges of the thunderstorms...
In today's image, we see the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede as imaged by the Juno spacecraft back in 2021. This moon, larger than the planet...
In today's image, we see the Eagle Ray Nebula, which bears a resemblance to a ray flying through space. This is an example of a dark nebula or a molecular...