Episodes

In today's image, we see the Blue Ghost lander on the Moon. The landing occurred yesterday and is the first commercial landing on our Moon, bringing various scientific instruments for NASA. Future landers will assist in the Artemis Program to land humans on the Moon again in a few years. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Da...

In today's image, we see the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, an image taken over 20 years ago when Hubble was pointed at a relatively blank area of the sky. The image is coded with sounds so that more distant galaxies give a lower pitch. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select ...

In today's image, we see the Blue Ghost craft of the Moon. The Blue Ghost is scheduled to touch down tomorrow (March 2) to explore a part of the Mare Crisium on the near side of our Moon. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this...

In today's image, we see the Athena craft as it leaves Earth heading to our Moon. It is scheduled to land on the Moon on March 6 and explore the region around the South Pole, which is a potential landing site for the Artemis 3 mission to land humans on the Moon. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive...

In today's image, we see two one star clusters which appear close in the sky but are actually at very different distances and ages. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast. I welcome comments and suggestions about thes...

In today's image, we see a recently released photo from the Euclid Telescope, showing a complete Einstein Ring around the center of a nearby elliptical galaxy. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast. I welcome comment...

In today's image, we see the cluster known as the Little Beehive. This is an open cluster of star, possible much like the one our Sun was born in billions of years ago. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast. I welcom...

In today's image, we see a light pillar in the sky about the erupting Mount Etna in Italy. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast. I welcome comments and suggestions about these podcasts. I can be reached here: wagner...

In today's image, we see an image of Saturn including its north polar hexagon as imaged in the infrared from the Cassini spacecraft. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast. I welcome comments and suggestions about the...

In today's image, we see the lunar feature known as Rima Hyginus, This is a rare feature, which is a volcanic crater as compare to the more common impact craters not he lunar surface. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this pod...

In today's image, we see a number of images of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope over more than a decade. These have been stitched together in a mosaic of the entire galaxy, only a portion of which is visible in today's image. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below t...

In today's image, we see the giant elliptical galaxy known as Messier 87. This is the dominant spiral galaxy in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. We can also see the jet being emitted from its nucleus pointing toward the right in the image. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to ...

In today's image, we see the Herbig-Haro object which is a young star, just forming. We can see evidence of a planetary system forming around it as well. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast. I welcome comments and ...

In today's image, we see a couple of emission nebulae located in the constellation of Canis Major. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast. I welcome comments and suggestions about these podcasts. I can be reached here...

In today's image, we see the trail from a SpaceX rocket as it carries a group of Starling satellites into low Earth orbit. We can also see the planet Venus at the top of the image. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcas...

In today's image, we see a video clip showing observations of the planet Jupiter as the Juno spacecraft passes in close to the clouds back in 2018. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast. I welcome comments and sugges...

In today's image, we see the Sun off over the horizon, with the sun dogs on either side. These sun dogs, or parhelia, are caused by the presence of hexagonal ice crystals in Earth's atmosphere. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date o...

In today's image, we see a cosmic rose in space. A young cluster of stars forming at the center of the nebula and their energy causing the rest of the material to glow in the red color of a rose. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date...

In today's image, we see the reflection nebula known as VdB 31. The reflection nebula is caused by the scattering of light off of dust grains around a hot star. We can also see some of the dark dust cloud in this region of the sky. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select...

In today's image, we see a video showing the asteroid Bennu as it rotates out in space. A sample of this was returned to Earth and has been found to contain amino acids which are the building blocks of life here on Earth. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo...

In today's image, we see two nebulae in a star forming region which are whimsically known as the Spider Nebula and the Fly Nebula. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast. I welcome comments and suggestions about these...

In today's image, we see a pattern of lights in the sky known as an aurora. These are caused by particles from solar storms interacting with atoms in Earth's atmosphere. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast. I welco...

In today's image, we see the pinnacles in Australia in the foreground and the Milky Way and Zodiacal Light in the sky above. You can also note the crescent moon above one of the pinnacles near the center of the image. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo cor...

In today's image, we see two crescents in the evening sky. We see our Moon, just a few days after the new moon phase and we see the planet Venus which can also be seen as a crescent. My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel. This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podc...