NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day today has a little more of a meteorological aspect to it. The picture below is kind of funky looking right? The question is, what ...

Physics Professor Robert Nemiroff, and a photo of the Crab Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope that was featured on NASA's Picture of the Day website on Nov. 9, 2023.

The images below show the day-by-day phases of the Moon in July. The Full Moon this month will be on Thursday, July 10. Note: Moon phases in the calendar vary in size due to the distance from ...

The New York Times has offered this calendar to readers since 2017. It’s a collection of newsworthy events in spaceflight and astronomy curated by the paper’s journalists.

The Astronomy Picture of the Day Calendar goes as far back as June 16 1995 (though only that image and then June 20 onward now display correctly), so just click the month on the main Calendar page ...

June 20 was the first day of summer in 2025 and the longest day of the year. In the Southern Hemisphere, it was the shortest day of the year and the beginning of winter. Earth orbits at an angle, so ...

As Valentine's Day 2024 approaches, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day offers a cosmic bouquet to admirers of the universe. Here's Rosette Nebula's image.

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If you’re trying to learn a new language, there are always a lot of words to learn. A word-of-the-day calendar can help, and they’re often readily available off the shelf. Or, you can g… ...

Look through back issues of Astronomy or check out the Picture of the Day images on Astronomy.com for inspiration. You could mount your camera on a tripod and take a single shot during totality.

Nearly every four years, the Gregorian calendar — which is used in the majority of countries around the world — gets an extra day: February 29. For some people, leap day means frog jokes and ...

Today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is a stunning snapshot of auroras lighting up the sky in Saariselka, in northern Finnish Lapland. It was a result of a powerful CME hitting Earth and the ...