These podcasts are commentary and discussions of images posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
In today's image, we see the Surveyor 3 spacecraft in the foreground as it is being visited by the astronauts from the Apollo 12 mission. The Apollo...
In today's image, we see the young star cluster, IC 248 as well as Barnard 3, a dark nebula surrounded by a red emission nebula. All of these are related...
In today's image, we see the Barred Spiral Galaxy known as NGC 1365 as imaged recently by the James Webb Space telescope. This is images in the mid-infrared,...
In today's image, we see a nebula surrounding a Wolf-Rayet star. This is a young, massive star of the type expected to eventually undergo a supernova...
In today's image, we see Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and its long tail stretching back behind it. This was the great comet of 2024 which was visible for...