NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

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2023 November 16 - Daytime Moon Meets Morning Star

Posted November 16, 202300:04:03

In today's image, we see an occultation of the planet Venus by our Moon. An occultation occurs when one object passes directly in front of another,...

2023 November 15 - M1: The Incredible Expanding Crab

Posted November 15, 202300:04:11

In today's image, we see the Crab Nebula which is the remnant of a star seen to explode from Earth nearly a thousand years ago. We are looking at two...

2023 November 14 - Three Planets Rock

Posted November 14, 2023

In today's image, we see three of the four brightest objects in the sky in a pattern around rock here on Earth. We have Jupiter to the left, Venus above...

2023 November 13 - Andromeda over the Alps

Posted November 13, 202300:04:03

In today's image, we see the Andromeda Galaxy. This is taken with a combination of two images - a shorter exposure of the Alps in the foreground and...

2023 November 12 - Gibbous Moon over Swedish Mountain

Posted November 12, 202300:03:32

In today's image, we see the waning gibbous moon (between full moon and third quarter) over the mountains of Sweden. In addition, a plane happened to...