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has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions APOD's main NASA site has moved : From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 1h

27 days to orbit the Earth). In some cultures of the Northern Hemisphere, the September full moon is called the Harvest Moon. Does your culture have a special name for it? (A full moon by any other name would shine as bright.) APOD's email for image submissions

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 1h

from Mount Etna are seen higher in the background. The pink band lower in the sky is called the Belt of Venus. During a full moon, the Moon and the Sun are in opposition in the sky: the moon rises as the sun sets. The lunar phase cycle lasts approximately 29.5 days (but the Moon takes approximately

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 1h

Have you ever seen the full moon rise? This colorful image was photographed last weekend in Sicily, just outside the town of Nicosia, in Italy. It is a composite photograph that shows the Moon rising as the sky turns darker. Lower clouds are reflecting the colors of antitwilight, while ash and gas

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 28/09/2026

🔭 Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe Image Color Credit: Karl Glazebrook & Ivan Baldry (JHU) ap260928

A single color covers the image: that similar to a latte
cup of coffee. It is noted in text that apod.nasa.gov is moving
to science.nasa.gov/apod .
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 27/09/2026

🔭 Andromeda before Photoshop Image Credit: Kees Scherer ap260927

A spiral galaxy is pictured that takes up much of the
frame. Many straight lines run through it. In the alternative
image, the straight lines have been removed.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 26/09/2026

🔭 Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN) ap260926

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 29/09/2026

taken in the light of hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen by a backyard telescope in Krakow, Poland and then digitally adjusted to approximate the nebula's true colors. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions APOD's main NASA site has moved: From apod.nasa.gov to

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 29/09/2026

outer atmosphere -- is moving unusually fast through interstellar space, creating a bow shock most visible on the upper left that is similar to a boat plowing through water. Although faint, the Shrimp Nebula glows also by compressing and brightening gas on its leading edge. The featured image was

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 29/09/2026

What causes the swirl in the Shrimp Nebula? Its high speed is likely. What is sure is that Sh2-188 is one of the larger planetary nebulas on the night sky, by angular size, spanning about half the diameter of the Moon. Moreover, the white-dwarf core -- leftover from the Sun-like star that shed its

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 29/09/2026

🔭 Sh2-188: The Shrimp Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Pawel Piechnik ap260929

A starfield has a bright pink swirling nebula
in it. The top part of the nebula shows much detail,
while the bottom part is mostly open.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 25/09/2026

🔭 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri Image Credit & Copyright: Javier O. Cadenas Parra ap260925

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 28/09/2026

cosmic latte. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions Tomorrow: APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 28/09/2026

electromagnetic spectrum, but a single perceived composite color. This color has become much less blue over the past 10 billion years, indicating that redder stars are becoming more prevalent. In a contest to better name the color, notable entries included skyvory, univeige, and the winner:

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 28/09/2026

computer parlance: #FFF8E7. To determine this, astronomers computationally averaged the light emitted by one of the larger samples of galaxies analyzed: the 200,000 galaxies of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. The resulting cosmic spectrum has some emission in all parts of the

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 28/09/2026

What color is the universe? More precisely, if the entire sky were smeared out, what color would the final mix be? This whimsical question came up when trying to determine what stars are commonplace in nearby galaxies. The answer, depicted here, is a conditionally perceived shade of beige. In

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 28/09/2026

🔭 Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe Image Color Credit: Karl Glazebrook & Ivan Baldry (JHU) ap260928

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 24/09/2026

🔭 The Ghosts of Five Supernovas Image Credit & Copyright: Stephane Vetter, Yann Sainty Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) ap260924

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 27/09/2026

but to minimize Earthly artifacts that have nothing to do with the distant galaxy and so better recreate what M31 really does look like. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 27/09/2026

specifically, but rather greatly reduced with a series of computer software packages that included Astro Pixel Processor, DeepSkyStacker, and PixInsight. All of this work was done not to deceive you with a digital fantasy that has little to do with the real likeness of the Andromeda galaxy (M31),

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 27/09/2026

each a 300 second exposure, taken from a garden observatory in Portugal during 2019. Obvious image deficiencies include bright parallel airplane trails, long and continuous satellite trails, short cosmic ray streaks, and bad pixels. These imperfections were actually not removed with Photoshop

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 27/09/2026

What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like? The featured image shows how our Milky Way Galaxy's closest major galactic neighbor really appears in a long exposure through Earth's busy skies and with a digital camera that introduces normal imperfections. The picture is a stack of 223 images,

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 27/09/2026

🔭 Andromeda before Photoshop Image Credit: Kees Scherer ap260927

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 23/09/2026

🔭 A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260923

Two images. The before image shows a lunar surface sprinkled with small craters. The after image shows the same location but taken over by a large dark impression surrounding by a ridge that slopes down to the surface.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 26/09/2026

and gamma-ray bursts. Of course, on that night some individual mirror segments of LST-1 also reflected the atmospheric flash of the bright perseid meteor. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions. APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 26/09/2026

mirror segments and a large, high-efficiency, pixelized camera, LST-1 is designed to detect extremely brief, atmospheric visible light flashes. Lasting about a billionth of a second, the visible light flashes are triggered by energetic gamma-rays from cosmic sources such as distant active galaxies

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 26/09/2026

the horizon. In the foreground of this tantalizing celestial scene is the 23 meter diameter mirror of the prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1). LST-1 is the first telescope constructed at the northern hemisphere site of the innovative Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory. With 198 hexagonal

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 26/09/2026

On August 15, this perseid meteor streaked through night skies over the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The bright and colorful meteor trail was captured next to the central Milky Way, whose dark interstellar dust clouds and luminous starlight reach above

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 26/09/2026

🔭 Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN) ap260926

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 22/09/2026

🔭 Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek / Inst. Physics Opava ap260922

An image of the Sun is shown with several dark
silhouettes superposed. On the upper right is an
airplane, on the right is the International Space
Station, and across the Sun are several sunspots.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 25/09/2026

for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions. APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 25/09/2026

Way. With a yellowish hue, Omega Centauri's red giant stars are easy to pick out in this sharp telescopic view. A two-decade-long exploration of the dense star cluster with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed evidence for a massive black hole near the center of Omega Centauri. APOD's email

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 25/09/2026

Way galaxy. Though most star clusters consist of stars with the same age and composition, the enigmatic Omega Cen exhibits the presence of different stellar populations with a spread of ages and chemical abundances. In fact, Omega Cen may be the remnant core of a small galaxy merging with the Milky

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 25/09/2026

Globular star cluster Omega Centauri packs about 10 million stars much older than the Sun into a volume some 150 light-years in diameter. Also known as NGC 5139, at a distance of 15,000 light-years it's the largest and brightest of 200 or so known globular clusters that roam the halo of our Milky

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 25/09/2026

🔭 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri Image Credit & Copyright: Javier O. Cadenas Parra ap260925

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 21/09/2026

🔭 Cocoon Nebula Wide Field Image Credit & Copyright: Piotr Czerski ap260921

A starfield is shown against a patchy red-glowing
background. Two irregular brown trails occur, the lower
of which culminates in a bright pink and white region.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 24/09/2026

away from Earth and have estimated ages up to tens of thousands of years old. Early humans may have witnessed them as bright new stars, fading over weeks or months. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions. APOD's main NASA site is moving : From

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 24/09/2026

explosion expanded into space, it created a growing shell of shocked gas and delicate filamentary structures shown in red (hydrogen) and blue (oxygen), respectively. These ancient stellar explosions happened independently; they are at various distances up to about several thousands of light-years

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 24/09/2026

charioteer). From left to right, the five supernova remnants visible across the field are G181.1+9.5, G182.4+4.3, G179.0+2.6, G180.0−1.7 (Sh2-240, the Spaghetti Nebula), and G178.2−4.2. They are highlighted in the annotated image, together with open cluster M37 and the Tadpole Nebula. As each

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 24/09/2026

The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco with approximately 200 hours of observations and shows a large patch of the sky, equivalent to the area of one thousand full moons tiled together, in the constellation of Auriga (the

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 24/09/2026

🔭 The Ghosts of Five Supernovas Image Credit & Copyright: Stephane Vetter, Yann Sainty Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) ap260924

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 20/09/2026

🔭 Analemma over the Callanish Stones Image Credit & Copyright: Giuseppe Petricca ap260920

The featured image the Sun in many positions above
the Callanish stones.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 23/09/2026

Moon’s surface. It also reminds us all to be thankful for Earth's atmosphere. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions. APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 23/09/2026

surrounds the warm crater. Surface impacts will puff up the loose lunar sediment, or regolith, making it less dense and harder to retain heat. This event affected an area much larger than the visible crater, which will inform humanity’s understanding of surface impacts and the evolution of the

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