These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...