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Comet R3 PanSTARRS, streaking across the right of the image, likely originated from the Oort Cloud, meaning it is an old Solar System relic from billions of years ago. It\u2019s bright extended ion tail glows blue as the gas escaping the comet\u2019s core is ionized by sunlight. Astronomers are fascinated by comets for all sorts of reasons: comet compositions are untouched time capsules containing the building blocks of Solar System planets; comets may have delivered water to the young Earth; the behavior of cometary tails shed light on solar wind and radiation interactions. The background mosaic, featuring the Orion Nebula (M42), was taken over two nights of observation with the comet captured on the third night. The Orion Nebula is our nearest stellar nursery and, at about 2 million years old, is our something (relatively) new! Now at around 127.5 million kilometers from Earth, we wave goodbye to the borrowed Comet R3 PanSTARRS as it leaves the Solar System. 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Intended to be viewed with red/blue glasses (red for the left eye), this striking stereo picture of the crater pair was recently created from high resolution scans of two images (AS11-42-6304, AS11-42-6305) taken during the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.","title":"Messier Craters in Stereo","topic":"astronomy","url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/MessierCrater3d_vantuyne1024c.jpg","video_url":null},{"author":null,"downloadable_assets":["https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/zwan-wolf-mars-v4.jpg"],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss074e0521637/|https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss074e0521637/|Glowing Views from the Space Station|Fri, 08 May 2026 15:23 GMT","id":2649,"image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/iss074e0521637orig.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"image_of_the_day","item_type_label":"Image Of The Day","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":null,"published_at":"2026-05-08T15:23:00","published_at_display":"8 May 2026, 15:23 GMT","source_name":"image_of_the_day","source_type":"rss","summary":"This celestial image captured from a window on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station highlights the Milky Way rising above Earth's atmospheric glow.","title":"Glowing Views from the Space Station","topic":null,"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss074e0521637/","video_url":null},{"author":"Jakub Ku\u0159\u00e1k & Martin Ma\u0161ek (FZU of the Czech Academy of Sciences)","downloadable_assets":[],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"2026-05-08|https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/CometRigel_Karuk_960.jpg","id":2612,"image_url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/CometRigel_Karuk_2851.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"apod","item_type_label":"Apod","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":"Jakub Ku\u0159\u00e1k & Martin Ma\u0161ek (FZU of the Czech Academy of Sciences)","published_at":"2026-05-08T00:00:00","published_at_display":"8 May 2026, 00:00 GMT","source_name":"apod","source_type":"api","summary":"Which way is Comet R3 PanSTARRS going? Not towards the star at the top of the image, because that is Rigel, which, being far in the background, is unrelated to the comet. Not through the nebula in the image middle, because that is the Witch Head Nebula and it, too, is far in the distance -- but not far from Rigel. Not into northern skies because over the past week Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) has moved into southern skies and is now best visible in Earth's Southern Hemisphere toward the west after sunset. Angularly, Comet R3 PanSTARRS is slowly moving toward the upper right, night by night, and will soon be in the constellation Orion. Spatially, the comet is now headed out of our Solar System but should remain visible to cameras in southern skies for about a week. The featured image was captured last week near Cerro Paranal in Chile. 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Featured is a composite of images taken over 34 nights from May 2025 to February 2026 tracing Saturn (brighter, foreground) and Neptune (dimmer, background). Over that time, the two planets exhibited retrograde motion, meaning they appeared to move backward in the sky. This apparent backwards motion occurs when Earth overtakes the slower outer planets as they orbit the Sun. Imagine the Solar System is a running track. Earth \"runs\" faster along the inside of the track compared to the outer planets. As Earth approaches, aligns, and then \"laps\" the outer planets, they change position from ahead to behind from the Earth's perspective. This perspective shift is what causes the outer planets to change position in the night sky. An animation corresponding to today\u2019s image shows Saturn and Neptune\u2019s months-long dance across the northern night sky. Saturn stepped from the Pisces constellation into Aquarius and back again while Neptune remained in Pisces. This is the closest Saturn and Neptune have been in the sky since their last conjunction in 1989.","title":"The Retrograde Dance of Saturn and Neptune","topic":"astronomy","url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/saturn_neptune_retrograde_1024.jpg","video_url":null},{"author":null,"downloadable_assets":["https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/zwan-wolf-mars-v4.jpg"],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/s61-01908orig/|https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/s61-01908orig/|Building on America\u2019s 65-Year Legacy of Human Spaceflight|Tue, 05 May 2026 16:06 GMT","id":2398,"image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/s61-01908orig.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"image_of_the_day","item_type_label":"Image Of The Day","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":null,"published_at":"2026-05-05T16:06:00","published_at_display":"5 May 2026, 16:06 GMT","source_name":"image_of_the_day","source_type":"rss","summary":"America\u2019s first human spaceflight begins as the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) space vehicle, with astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. aboard, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 5, 1961.","title":"Building on America\u2019s 65-Year Legacy of Human Spaceflight","topic":null,"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/s61-01908orig/","video_url":null},{"author":"Marcin Rosadzi\u0144ski","downloadable_assets":[],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"2026-05-05|https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/OrionTeide_Rosadzinski_960.jpg","id":2358,"image_url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/OrionTeide_Rosadzinski_4247.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"apod","item_type_label":"Apod","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":"Marcin Rosadzi\u0144ski","published_at":"2026-05-05T00:00:00","published_at_display":"5 May 2026, 00:00 GMT","source_name":"apod","source_type":"api","summary":"Orion is rarely seen like this. To achieve this majestic vista, you need a camera capable of taking such long duration exposures that faint features in the night sky become revealed. Iconic nebulas that appear include the Orion Nebula, the Flame Nebula, and Barnard's Loop. For contrast, it also helps to have a volcano on the foreground, in this case the Teide volcano on Tenerife on the Canary Islands of Spain. But if you want your Teide volcano snow-covered, you also need good timing -- because that only happens, typically, for a few days each year. Good timing also includes waiting for Orion to appear just behind Teide, which occurred late last year after sunset. The featured image is the result of a series of images taken consecutively with the same camera from the same location. Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (after 1995)","title":"Orion over Mount Teide","topic":"astronomy","url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/OrionTeide_Rosadzinski_960.jpg","video_url":null},{"author":null,"downloadable_assets":["https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/zwan-wolf-mars-v4.jpg"],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-ngc3137-potm2604a/|https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-ngc3137-potm2604a/|Hubble Spots a Starry Spiral|Mon, 04 May 2026 15:18 GMT","id":2333,"image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hubble-ngc3137-potm2604a.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"image_of_the_day","item_type_label":"Image Of The Day","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":null,"published_at":"2026-05-04T15:18:00","published_at_display":"4 May 2026, 15:18 GMT","source_name":"image_of_the_day","source_type":"rss","summary":"This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the glittering spiral galaxy NGC 3137, located 53 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia (the Air Pump).","title":"Hubble Spots a Starry Spiral","topic":null,"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-ngc3137-potm2604a/","video_url":null},{"author":null,"downloadable_assets":[],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"2026-05-03|https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/TrifidPillar_Hubble_960.jpg","id":2292,"image_url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/TrifidPillar_Hubble_4074.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"apod","item_type_label":"Apod","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":null,"published_at":"2026-05-03T00:00:00","published_at_display":"3 May 2026, 00:00 GMT","source_name":"apod","source_type":"api","summary":"Dust pillars are like interstellar mountains. They survive because they are more dense than their surroundings, but they are slowly being eroded away by a hostile environment. Visible in the featured picture by the Hubble Space Telescope is the end of a huge gas and dust pillar in the Trifid Nebula (M20), punctuated by a smaller pillar pointing up and an unusual jet pointing to the upper left. Many of the bright dots are newly formed stars. A star near the small pillar's end is slowly being stripped of its accreting gas by radiation from a tremendously brighter star situated off the top of the image. The jet extends nearly a light-year and would not be visible without external illumination. As gas and dust evaporate from the pillars, the hidden stellar source of this jet will likely be uncovered, possibly over the next 20,000 years. Explore the Universe: Random APOD Generator","title":"Trifid Pillars and Jets","topic":"astronomy","url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/TrifidPillar_Hubble_960.jpg","video_url":null},{"author":null,"downloadable_assets":[],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"2026-05-02|https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/PIA21923_fig1SeeingTitan1024.jpg","id":2265,"image_url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/PIA21923_fig1SeeingTitan2400.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"apod","item_type_label":"Apod","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":null,"published_at":"2026-05-02T00:00:00","published_at_display":"2 May 2026, 00:00 GMT","source_name":"apod","source_type":"api","summary":"Shrouded in a thick atmosphere, the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is really hard to see. Small particles suspended in Titan's upper atmosphere cause an almost impenetrable haze, strongly scattering light at visible wavelengths and hiding surface features from prying eyes. Still, Titan's surface is better imaged at infrared wavelengths, where scattering is weaker and atmospheric absorption is reduced. Arrayed around this visible light image (center) of Titan are some of the clearest global infrared views of the tantalizing moon so far. In false color, the six panels present a consistent processing of 13 years of infrared image data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on board the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn from 2004 to 2017. They offer a stunning comparison with Cassini's visible light view. NASA's revolutionary rotorcraft mission to Titan's surface is due to launch no earlier than July, 2028.","title":"Seeing Titan","topic":"astronomy","url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/PIA21923_fig1SeeingTitan1024.jpg","video_url":null},{"author":null,"downloadable_assets":["https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/zwan-wolf-mars-v4.jpg"],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasa-artemis-ii-crew-rings-nasdaq-closing-bell/|https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasa-artemis-ii-crew-rings-nasdaq-closing-bell/|NASA Artemis II Crew Rings Nasdaq Closing Bell|Fri, 01 May 2026 16:10 GMT","id":2258,"image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/55241093118-d474b58236-o.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"image_of_the_day","item_type_label":"Image Of The Day","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":null,"published_at":"2026-05-01T16:10:00","published_at_display":"1 May 2026, 16:10 GMT","source_name":"image_of_the_day","source_type":"rss","summary":"Nasdaq Chair and Chief Executive Officer Adena T. Friedman, left, and NASA\u2019s Artemis II crew ring the closing bell of the Nasdaq market session, Thursday, April 30, 2026.","title":"NASA Artemis II Crew Rings Nasdaq Closing Bell","topic":null,"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasa-artemis-ii-crew-rings-nasdaq-closing-bell/","video_url":null},{"author":"Chuck Ayoub","downloadable_assets":[],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"2026-05-01|https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/M84andM86_1024.png","id":2228,"image_url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/M84andM86.png","is_active":true,"item_type":"apod","item_type_label":"Apod","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":"Chuck Ayoub","published_at":"2026-05-01T00:00:00","published_at_display":"1 May 2026, 00:00 GMT","source_name":"apod","source_type":"api","summary":"Near the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, a string of galaxies known as Markarian's Chain stretches across this telescopic field of view. Anchored in the frame at bottom right by prominent lenticular galaxies, M84 (bottom) and M86, you can follow the chain's gentle arc up and toward the left. Near center you'll spot the pair of interacting galaxies NGC 4438 and NGC 4435, known to some as Markarian's Eyes. An estimated 50 million light-years distant, the Virgo Cluster itself is the nearest galaxy cluster. With up to about 2,000 member galaxies, it has a noticeable gravitational influence on our own Local Group of Galaxies. Within the Virgo Cluster at least seven galaxies in Markarian's Chain appear to move coherently, while others may appear to be part of the chain by chance.","title":"Markarian's Chain","topic":"astronomy","url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/M84andM86_1024.png","video_url":null},{"author":null,"downloadable_assets":["https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/zwan-wolf-mars-v4.jpg"],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1262/|https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1262/|Artemis III Rocket Core Stage Moves to NASA Kennedy|Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:53 GMT","id":2200,"image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ksc-20260428-ph-geb02-0005orig.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"image_of_the_day","item_type_label":"Image Of The Day","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":null,"published_at":"2026-04-30T17:53:00","published_at_display":"30 Apr 2026, 17:53 GMT","source_name":"image_of_the_day","source_type":"rss","summary":"NASA\u2019s SLS (Space Launch System) core stage for the Artemis III mission moves into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, April 28, 2026.","title":"Artemis III Rocket Core Stage Moves to NASA Kennedy","topic":null,"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1262/","video_url":null},{"author":null,"downloadable_assets":["https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/zwan-wolf-mars-v4.jpg"],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/55205768700-7d3f580146-o/|https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/55205768700-7d3f580146-o/|A Gently Glowing Galaxy|Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:43 GMT","id":2062,"image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/55205768700-7d3f580146-o.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"image_of_the_day","item_type_label":"Image Of The Day","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":null,"published_at":"2026-04-29T16:43:00","published_at_display":"29 Apr 2026, 16:43 GMT","source_name":"image_of_the_day","source_type":"rss","summary":"The barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image.","title":"A Gently Glowing Galaxy","topic":null,"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/55205768700-7d3f580146-o/","video_url":null},{"author":"Gianni Tumino Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)","downloadable_assets":[],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"2026-04-29|https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2604/moon_venus_pleiades_zoom.jpg","id":2160,"image_url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2604/moon_venus_pleiades.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"apod","item_type_label":"Apod","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":"Gianni Tumino Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)","published_at":"2026-04-29T00:00:00","published_at_display":"29 Apr 2026, 00:00 GMT","source_name":"apod","source_type":"api","summary":"No, Earth did not recently acquire six more moons! Today\u2019s APOD is a combination of images following the Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades across a southern Sicilian sky as twilight turned to evening on April 19. From 2023 to 2029, the Pleiades' and the Moon \u201cvisit\" each other once per month due to the Pleiades' location in the ecliptic plane. April 2026 saw the celestial alignment of their visit with Venus. About six stars in the Pleiades cluster (Messier 45) are typically visible with the unaided eye. Due to the cluster\u2019s visibility across the world, there are many myths and legends across cultures associated with the Pleiades. The Haudenosaunee people of North America, for example, say that seven boys danced so enthusiastically that they lifted off into the sky. Astronomers recently found thousands more Pleiades members, showing that after thousands of years of gazing upon this cluster, there is yet more to learn about the Pleiades.","title":"The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades","topic":"astronomy","url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2604/moon_venus_pleiades_zoom.jpg","video_url":null},{"author":null,"downloadable_assets":["https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/zwan-wolf-mars-v4.jpg"],"embed_url":null,"external_id":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt112_09_21_jessica-meir_chris-and-sophie-dna-therapeutics-lsg/|https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt112_09_21_jessica-meir_chris-and-sophie-dna-therapeutics-lsg/|Science in Space|Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:48 GMT","id":2063,"image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/55228089453-c0d41d11a7-o.jpg","is_active":true,"item_type":"image_of_the_day","item_type_label":"Image Of The Day","live_now":false,"live_status":null,"media_credit":null,"published_at":"2026-04-28T14:48:00","published_at_display":"28 Apr 2026, 14:48 GMT","source_name":"image_of_the_day","source_type":"rss","summary":"Expedition 74 flight engineers Chris Williams of NASA and Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency work together in the Kibo laboratory module\u2019s Life Science Glovebox.","title":"Science in Space","topic":null,"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt112_09_21_jessica-meir_chris-and-sophie-dna-therapeutics-lsg/","video_url":null}],"next_num":3,"page":2,"pages":7,"per_page":20,"prev_num":1,"total":121}