So, if you are disappointed in your contemplative session tonight, we have news that may comfort you.
Did you know that every day NASA takes a picture of the universe? The Hubble Space Telescope, launched into Earth orbit in 1990, takes a picture of the Universe every day and NASA shares it with the world on this site..
In taking celestial photographs the telescope is used as the camera, the sensitive plate being usually placed in the focus 0f the 0bject-glass or mirror, and receiving the image direct:iy Up0n it..
Past images are stored in the APOD Archive, with the first image appearing on June 16, 1995.
This initiative has received support from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and MTU..
On June 16, 1995, when the World Wide Web was young, two gamma-ray astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, launched a website with a simple aim – to post a daily astronomical image along with a brief, easily understood explanation..
Explanation: Stars of the globular cluster NGC 2419 are packed into this Hubble Space Telescope field of view toward the mostly stealthy constellation Lynx.
The two brighter spiky stars near the edge of the frame are within our own galaxy.
NGC 2419 itself is remote though, some 300,000 light-years away..
Astrophotography, also known as astronomical imaging, is the photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events, or areas of the night sky..
Today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is a snapshot of NGC 1566, also known as the Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy, located about 40 million light-years away towards the constellation of Dorado..
APOD: 2023 May 23 – Jupiter's Swirls from Juno..
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 17 April 2023: Stunning red ring of ELVES Tech News..
APOD: 2023 April 26 – The Moon through the Arc de Triomphe..
APOD: 2023 April 4 – Olympus Mons: Largest Volcano in the Solar System..
APOD: 2023 July 30 – Spiral Aurora over Icelandic Divide..
NASA's description of the picture
SN 2023ixf occurred in the photogenic Pinwheel Galaxy M101, which, being only about 21 million light years away, makes it the closest supernova seen in the past five years, the second closest in the past 10 years, and the second supernova found in M101 in the past 15 years..
NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured this image of the Moon on Oct. 16, 2022, from a distance of 150,000 miles (240,000 km).
This view of the last quarter Moon is familiar to observers from Earth as the spacecraft took this image while it was in between the Earth and the Moon during its first Earth gravity assist..
Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Past images are stored in the APOD Archive, with the first image appearing on June 16, 1995..
Past images are stored in the APOD Archive, with the first image appearing on June 16, 1995.
This initiative has received support from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and MTU..
On June 16, 1995, when the World Wide Web was young, two gamma-ray astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, launched a website with a simple aim – to post a daily astronomical image along with a brief, easily understood explanation.Jun 22, 2022.
NASA's image library, images.nasa.gov, consolidates imagery and videos in one searchable location..
About Astronomy Astronomy is written in clear non-technical language
With the occasional touch of humor and a wide range of clarifying illustrations. It has many analogies drawn from everyday life to help non-science majors appreciate
On their own terms
What our modern exploration of the universe is revealing.
Annotated 100 years ago
The featured image may not be pretty
But the variable spot on it opened a window through which humanity gazed knowingly
For the first time
Into a surprisingly vast cosmos . A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day
Along with a brief explanation.
Astronomy Picture of the Day(APOD) is originated, written, coordinated,and edited since 1995 by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell. The APOD archivecontains the largest collection of annotated astronomicalimages on the internet.
