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The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for September 13, 2026, features Comet NEOWISE rising over the Adriatic Sea, captured by Paolo Girotti. This image, take

NASA's WB-57F aircraft observed a total solar eclipse off the coast of Iceland on August 12, 2026, from 50,000 feet, capturing the solar corona and visible plan

The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for September 3, 2026, features an image of a stork during a partial solar eclipse in Poland and discusses how animals r

The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for September 1, 2026, features an image of a lunar eclipse taken last week from Portugal, explaining that lunar eclipse

Comet 220P/McNaught has experienced two unexpected outbursts, making it 20,000 times brighter and visible with binoculars, with its next close approach to Earth

An Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) from August 22, 2026, features an all-sky view of the 2026 Perseid Meteor Shower, captured on August 12-13. The image, co

The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for August 20, 2026, features the Elephant's Trunk Nebula (vdB 142) within the IC 1396 complex in the constellation Ceph

An APOD article investigates a mysterious object captured on video crossing a partially eclipsed Sun during the 2026 Perseids meteor shower, initially suspected

A total solar eclipse observed in Spain last week displayed an unusually golden corona, attributed to the low-setting sun and smoke from nearby forest fires sca

An Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) features a hard-won snapshot of the total solar eclipse from Greenland on August 12, 2026, capturing the diamond ring eff

The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for August 13, 2026, features images of a total solar eclipse over Spain, specifically Zaragoza, which experienced its f

The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) features the 2024 Perseid meteor shower over the Bieszczady Mountains in Poland, with the 2026 Perseid meteor shower exp

The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for August 10, 2026, features three distinct galaxy pairs, including a polar ring galaxy and actively interacting galaxi

The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for August 8, 2026, features a telescopic image of periodic comet 10P/Tempel 2 sweeping close to the globular star clust

The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for August 3, 2026, features a vaporizing meteor photobombing the Great Lacerta Nebula, captured from Death Valley Obser

The Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 1, 2026, features the Buck Moon and the Belt of Venus, captured over Krk Island, Croatia, with the image setting the