Astronomy Picture of the Day – July 2026

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2026 July 31: NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
2026 July 30: Red Sun through Wildfire Smoke
2026 July 29: Psyche Receives Gravity Assist from Mars
2026 July 28: Barnards Loop over Twin Volcanoes
2026 July 27: NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula
2026 July 26: Simulation TNG50: A Galaxy Cluster Forms
2026 July 25: Tranquility and Serenity
2026 July 24: RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant
2026 July 23: The Large Magellanic Cloud
2026 July 22: The Corona Australis Cloud and the Chandelier Cluster
2026 July 21: Turtle Rock on Mars
2026 July 20: NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula
2026 July 19: Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert
2026 July 18: Shadow and Rainbow
2026 July 17: The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2
2026 July 16: NGC 300: A Cosmic Gemstone with Stars and Gas Clouds
2026 July 15: Gigantic Jet Over the Tatacoa Desert
2026 July 14: Double Lobed Asteroid Torifune
2026 July 13: Auroras from Space
2026 July 12: Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams
2026 July 11: Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud
2026 July 10: Western Moon, Eastern Sea
2026 July 09: The Red Glow of the Cosmic Bat Nebula
2026 July 08: Swift Boost Mission
2026 July 07: NGC 6188: Dragons of Ara
2026 July 06: Dueling Bands over the Atacama Desert
2026 July 05: Saturns Iapetus: Painted Moon
2026 July 04: Pathfinder on Mars
2026 July 03: Three Galaxies in Pavo
2026 July 02: Sibling Supernova Remnants
2026 July 01: The Cotton Candy Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi

Astronomy Picture of the Day For February 2026

February 2026 Astronomy Picture of the Day Source: apod.nasa.gov

2026 February 28: Lunar Occultation of Mercury
2026 February 27: Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula
2026 February 26: Webb and Hubble: IC 5332
2026 February 25: The Egg Nebula from the Hubble Telescope
2026 February 24: Planet Parade over Sydney Opera House
2026 February 23: Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster
2026 February 22: Shadow of a Martian Robot
2026 February 21: Twilight with Moon and Planets
2026 February 20: B93: A Dark Interstellar Ghost
2026 February 19: IC 2574: Coddington’s Nebula
2026 February 18: Orion’s Cradle
2026 February 17: Tails of Comet Wierzchoś
2026 February 16: Unexplained Shocks Around a White Dwarf Star
2026 February 15: To Fly Free in Space
2026 February 14: Roses are Red
2026 February 13: NGC 147 and NGC 185
2026 February 12: The Bay of Rainbows
2026 February 11: A Year of Sunspots
2026 February 10: In Green Company: Aurora over Norway
2026 February 09: Miranda Revisited
2026 February 08: Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun
2026 February 07: Crescent Enceladus
2026 February 06: Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
2026 February 05: NGC 1275 in the Perseus Cluster
2026 February 04: Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: Wide Field
2026 February 03: Red Spider Planetary Nebula from Webb
2026 February 02: Orion: The Running Man Nebula
2026 February 01: Galle: Happy Face Crater on Mar

Astronomy Picture of the Day for May 2025

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2025 May 31: Sunset Afterimage
2025 May 30: Mars in the Loop
2025 May 29: Irregular Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A
2025 May 28: Herbig Haro 24
2025 May 27: Zeta and Rho Ophiuchi with Milky Way
2025 May 26: Spiral Galaxy NGC 2566 from Webb
2025 May 25: Beneath Jupiter
2025 May 24: Deimos Before Sunrise
2025 May 23: NGC6366 vs 47 Ophiuchi
2025 May 22: Curly Spiral Galaxy M63
2025 May 21: International Space Station Crosses the Sun
2025 May 20: Milky Way over Maunakea
2025 May 19: Charon Flyover from New Horizons
2025 May 18: Pluto Flyover from New Horizons
2025 May 17: Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited
2025 May 16: Messier 101
2025 May 15: A Plutonian Landscape
2025 May 14: NGC 1360: The Robins Egg Nebula
2025 May 13: Gaia Reconstructs a Top View of our Galaxy
2025 May 12: Gaia Reconstructs a Side View of our Galaxy
2025 May 11: The Surface of Venus from Venera 14
2025 May 10: Yogi and Friends in 3D
2025 May 09: IXPE Explores a Black Hole Jet
2025 May 08: M1: The Incredible Expanding Crab
2025 May 07: Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82
2025 May 06: The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
2025 May 05: Planet Lines Across Water
2025 May 04: Spin up of a Supermassive Black Hole
2025 May 03: Titan: Moon over Saturn
2025 May 02: Young Star Cluster NGC 346
2025 May 01: MESSENGER s Last Day on Mercury

Astronomy Picture of the Day for February 1 – 28, 2025

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2025 February 28: Athena to the Moon
2025 February 27: Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158
2025 February 26: Einstein Ring Surrounds Nearby Galaxy Center
2025 February 25: M41: The Little Beehive Star Cluster
2025 February 24: Light Pillar over Erupting Etna
2025 February 23: Saturn in Infrared from Cassini
2025 February 22: Rima Hyginus
2025 February 21: Hubble’s Andromeda Galaxy Mosaic
2025 February 20: Messier 87
2025 February 19: HH 30: A Star System with Planets Now Forming
2025 February 18: Thor’s Helmet versus the Seagull
2025 February 17: SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California
2025 February 16: Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter
2025 February 15: Parhelia at Abisko
2025 February 14: A Cosmic Rose: NGC 2237 in Monoceros
2025 February 13: Reflections on VdB 31
2025 February 12: Asteroid Bennu Holds the Building Blocks of Life
2025 February 11: The Spider and the Fly
2025 February 10: Auroral Hummingbird over Norway
2025 February 09: Milky Way over the Australian Pinnacles
2025 February 08: A Conjunction of Crescents
2025 February 07: LEDA 1313424: The Bullseye Galaxy
2025 February 06: IC 2574: Coddington’s Nebula
2025 February 05: Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill
2025 February 04: Anticrepuscular Rays: A Rainbow Fan over Spain
2025 February 03: Wolf Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine
2025 February 02: Comet G3 ATLAS Disintegrates
2025 February 01: Nacreous Clouds over Sweden

Astronomy Pictures of the Day for January 2025

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2025 January 31: The Variable Nebula NGC 2261
2025 January 30: Hydrogen Clouds of M33
2025 January 29: Dust Shells around WR 140 from Webb
2025 January 28: Comet G3 ATLAS over Uruguay
2025 January 27: Pleiades over Half Dome
2025 January 26: The Many Tails of Comet G3 ATLAS
2025 January 25: Stardust in the Perseus Molecular Cloud
2025 January 24: Comet G3 ATLAS: a Tail and a Telescope
2025 January 23: NGC 7814: Little Sombrero
2025 January 22: The North America Nebula
2025 January 21: Comet ATLAS over Brasilia
2025 January 20: Comet ATLAS Rounds the Sun
2025 January 19: Titan Touchdown: Huygens Descent Movie
2025 January 18: Full Moon, Full Mars
2025 January 17: Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
2025 January 16: M83: The Southern Pinwheel
2025 January 15: Wolf Moon Engulfs Mars
2025 January 14: North Star: Polaris and Surrounding Dust
2025 January 13: Comet ATLAS Before Sunrise
2025 January 12: Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater
2025 January 11: An Evening Sky Full of Planets
2025 January 10: Young Stars, Dark Nebulae
2025 January 09: Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273
2025 January 08: Supernova Remnants Big and Small
2025 January 07: A New Years Aurora and SAR Arc
2025 January 06: Colliding Spiral Galaxies from Webb and Hubble
2025 January 05: Rocket Launch as Seen from the International Space Station
2025 January 04: Welcome to Perihelion
2025 January 03: Eclipse Pair
2025 January 02: Solar Analemma 2024
2025 January 01: Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System

Astronomy Pictures of the Day for September 2024

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2024 September 30: Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS over Mexico
2024 September 29: Seven Dusty Sisters
2024 September 28: Rocket Eclipse at Sunset
2024 September 27: Stellar Streams in the Local Universe
2024 September 26: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
2024 September 25: Comet A3 Through an Australian Sunrise
2024 September 24: NGC 6727: The Rampaging Baboon Nebula
2024 September 23: Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS Approaches
2024 September 22: Chicagohenge: Equinox in an Aligned City
2024 September 21: Sunrise Shadows in the Sky
2024 September 20: A Hazy Harvest Moon
2024 September 19: The Dark Seahorse of Cepheus
2024 September 18: The Mermaid Nebula Supernova Remnant
2024 September 17: Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula
2024 September 16: Mercurys Vivaldi Crater from BepiColombo
2024 September 15: Find the Man in the Moon
2024 September 14: The Moona Lisa
2024 September 13: Aurora Australis and the International Space Station
2024 September 12: Young Star Cluster NGC 1333
2024 September 11: A Night Sky over the Tatra Mountains
2024 September 10: Horsehead and Orion Nebulas
2024 September 09: Mars: Moon, Craters, and Volcanos
2024 September 08: M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
2024 September 07: Small Moon Deimos
2024 September 06: Ringed Ice Giant Neptune
2024 September 05: NGC 247 and Friends
2024 September 04: NGC 6995: The Bat Nebula
2024 September 03: Quarter Moon and Sister Stars
2024 September 02: A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun
2024 September 01: The Moon Dressed Like Saturn

July 2024 Astronomy Pictures of the Day

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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2024 July 31: Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks
2024 July 30: Arp 142: Interacting Galaxies from Webb
2024 July 29: Milky Way over Uluru
2024 July 28: Sun Dance
2024 July 27: Saturn at the Moon s Edge
2024 July 26: Facing NGC 6946
2024 July 25: NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
2024 July 24: Exaggerated Moon
2024 July 23: The Crab Nebula from Visible to X Ray
2024 July 22: Chamaeleon Dark Nebulas
2024 July 21: King of Wings Hoodoo under the Milky Way
2024 July 20: Apollo 11 Landing Panorama
2024 July 19: Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet Festival
2024 July 18: Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud
2024 July 17: Villarrica Volcano Against the Sky
2024 July 16: Cometary Globules
2024 July 15: The Tadpole Galaxy from Hubble
2024 July 14: Meteor Misses Galaxy
2024 July 13: Solar System Family Portrait
2024 July 12: Jones Emberson 1
2024 July 11: Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
2024 July 10: A Sagittarius Triplet
2024 July 09: Noctilucent Clouds over Florida
2024 July 08: Exoplanet Zoo: Other Stars
2024 July 07: Iridescent Clouds over Sweden
2024 July 06: NGC 7789: Caroline s Rose
2024 July 05: Mount Etna Milky Way
2024 July 04: A Beautiful Trifid
2024 July 03: M83: Star Streams and a Thousand Rubies
2024 July 02: NGC 602: Oyster Star Cluster
2024 July 01: Time Spiral