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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

These podcasts are my discussion of NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. These are brief (3-5 minute) audio summaries of the picture posted on NASA's Picture of the Day website: APOD. Video versions of these are available on YouTube. I use these as the introduction to each of my introductory astronomy classes. Students will be able to access them here to review what was discussed in class. I appreciate any comments or suggestions which can be sent to: [email protected].

2025 June 07 - Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity

4 mins; June 07, 2025

2025 June 06 - NGC 6302: The Butterfly Nebula

0 secs; June 06, 2025

2025 June 05 - Savudrija Star Trails

0 secs; June 05, 2025

2025 June 04 - A Milky Road to the Rubin Observatory

3 mins; June 04, 2025

2025 June 03 - Rainbow Airglow over the Azores

0 secs; June 03, 2025

2025 June 02 - Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Ancient Supernova

0 secs; June 02, 2025

2025 June 01 - UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble

4 mins; June 01, 2025

2025 May 31 - Afterimage Sunset

0 secs; May 31, 2025

2025 May 30 - Mars in the Loop

0 secs; May 30, 2025

2025 May 29 - Irregular Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A

3 mins; May 29, 2025

2025 May 28 - Herbig-Haro 24

3 mins; May 28, 2025

2025 May 27 - Zeta and Rho Ophiuchi with Milky Way

0 secs; May 27, 2025

2025 May 26 - Spiral Galaxy NGC 2566 from Webb

3 mins; May 26, 2025

2025 May 25 - Beneath Jupiter

4 mins; May 24, 2025

2025 May 24 - Deimos before Dawn

0 secs; May 24, 2025

2025 May 23 - NGC 6366 and 47 Ophiuchi

0 secs; May 23, 2025

2025 May 22 - Curly Spiral Galaxy M63

0 secs; May 22, 2025

2025 May 21 - International Space Station Crosses the Sun

0 secs; May 21, 2025

2025 May 20 - Milky Way over Mauna Kea

0 secs; May 20, 2025

2025 May 19 - Charon Flyover from New Horizons

4 mins; May 19, 2025

2025 May 18 - Pluto Flyover from New Horizons

3 mins; May 18, 2025

2025 May 17 - Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited

0 secs; May 17, 2025

2025 May 16 - Messier 101

0 secs; May 16, 2025

2025 May 15 - A Plutonian Landscape

3 mins; May 15, 2025

2025 May 14 - NGC 1360: The Robin's Egg Nebula

3 mins; May 14, 2025

2025 May 13 - Gaia Reconstructs a Top View of Our Galaxy

4 mins; May 13, 2025

2025 May 12 - Gaia Reconstructs a Side View of Our Galaxy

4 mins; May 12, 2025

2025 May 11 - The Surface of Venus from Venera 14

4 mins; May 11, 2025

2025 May 10 - Yogi and Friends in 3D

0 secs; May 10, 2025

2025 May 09 - IXPE Explores a Black Hole Jet

0 secs; May 09, 2025

2025 May 08 - M1: The Incredible Expanding Crab

3 mins; May 08, 2025

2025 May 07 - Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82

0 secs; May 07, 2025

2025 May 06 - The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes

4 mins; May 06, 2025

2025 May 05 - Planet Lines Across Water

3 mins; May 05, 2025

2025 May 04 - Spin Up of a Supermassive Black Hole

3 mins; May 04, 2025

2025 May 03 - Titan: Moon over Saturn

0 secs; May 03, 2025

2025 May 02 - Young Star Cluster NGC 346

3 mins; May 02, 2025

2025 May 01 - MESSENGER's LAST Day on Mercury

0 secs; May 01, 2025

2025 April 30 - A Happy Sky over Bufa Hill in Mexico

0 secs; April 30, 2025

2025 April 29 - Saturn's Rings Appear to Disappear

0 secs; April 29, 2025

2025 April 28 - Gum 37 and the Southern Tadpoles

0 secs; April 28, 2025

2025 April 27 - IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula

0 secs; April 27, 2025

2025 April 26 - Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 5335

3 mins; April 26, 2025

2025 April 25 - Asteroid Donaldjohanson

0 secs; April 25, 2025

2025 April 24 - NGC 6164: A Dragon's Egg

0 secs; April 24, 2025

2025 April 23 - An Almost Everything Sky

0 secs; April 23, 2025

2025 April 22 - Terminator Moon: A Moonscape of Shadows

0 secs; April 22, 2025

2025 April 21 - Galaxy Lenses Galaxy from Webb

0 secs; April 21, 2025

2025 April 20 - The Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared

0 secs; April 20, 2025

2025 April 19 - Painting with Jupiter

0 secs; April 19, 2025

2025 April 18 - Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN

0 secs; April 18, 2025

2025 April 17 - Virgo Cluster Galaxies

0 secs; April 17, 2025

2025 April 16 - Halo of the Cat's Eye

3 mins; April 16, 2025

2025 April 15 - Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb

0 secs; April 15, 2025

2025 April 14 - The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT

0 secs; April 14, 2025

2025 April 13 - An Unusual Hole in Mars

0 secs; April 13, 2025

2025 April 12 - Moon Near the Edge

0 secs; April 12, 2025

2025 April 11 - The ISS Meets Venus

3 mins; April 11, 2025

2025 April 10 - 38 hours with the M81 Group

0 secs; April 10, 2025

2025 April 09 - HH 49: Interstellar Jet from Webb

3 mins; April 09, 2025

2025 April 08 - Moon Visits Sister Stars

0 secs; April 08, 2025

2025 April 07 - NGC 4414: A Flocculant Spiral Galaxy

3 mins; April 07, 2025

2025 April 06 - Moonquakes Surprisingly Common

0 secs; April 06, 2025

2025 April 05 - The Gargoyles' Eclipse

0 secs; April 05, 2025

2025 April 04 - Hickson 44 in Leo

0 secs; April 04, 2025

2025 April 03 - The Da Vinci Glow

0 secs; April 03, 2025

2025 April 02 - Jupiter and Ring in Infrared from Webb

0 secs; April 02, 2025

2025 April 01 - A Double Sunrise from a Partial Eclipse

4 mins; April 01, 2025

2025 March 31 - Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun

0 secs; March 31, 2025

2025 March 29 - Stereo Helene

0 secs; March 29, 2025

2025 March 28 - Lunar Dust and Duct Tape

0 secs; March 28, 2025

2025 March 27 - Messier 81

0 secs; March 27, 2025

2025 March 26 - Star Formation in the Pacman Nebula

3 mins; March 26, 2025

2025 March 25 - A Blue Banded Blood Moon

0 secs; March 25, 2025

2025 March 24 - A Total Lunar Eclipse Over Uruguay

0 secs; March 24, 2025

2025 March 23 - Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars

3 mins; March 23, 2025

2025 March 22 - SuperCam Target on Ma'az

3 mins; March 22, 2025

2025 March 21 - The Leo Trio

0 secs; March 21, 2025

2025 March 20 - The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project

0 secs; March 20, 2025

2025 March 19 - Blue Ghost's Diamond Ring

0 secs; March 19, 2025

2025 March 18 - LDN 1235: The Shark Nebula

0 secs; March 18, 2025

2025 March 17 - Thor's Helmet

0 secs; March 17, 2025

2025 March 16 - Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun

0 secs; March 16, 2025

2025 March 15 - Tololo Totality

0 secs; March 15, 2025

2025 March 14 - Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow

0 secs; March 14, 2025

2025 March 13 - The Protostars within Lynds 483

3 mins; March 13, 2025

2025 March 12 - NGC 772: The Fiddlehead Galaxy

0 secs; March 12, 2025

2025 March 11 - NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble

0 secs; March 11, 2025

2025 March 10 - NGC 1499: The California Nebula

0 secs; March 10, 2025

2025 March 09 - Cyclones at Jupiter's North Pole

0 secs; March 09, 2025

2025 March 08 - Galaxies in Space

0 secs; March 08, 2025

2025 March 07 - Planetary Nebula Abell 7

0 secs; March 07, 2025

2025 March 06 - Starburst Galaxy Messier 94

0 secs; March 06, 2025

2025 March 05 - Seven Sisters versus California

0 secs; March 05, 2025

2025 March 04 - A Quadruple Alignment over Italy

0 secs; March 04, 2025

2025 March 03 - Blue Ghost on the Moon

0 secs; March 03, 2025

2025 March 02 - The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound

0 secs; March 02, 2025

2025 March 01 - Blue Ghost to the Moon

0 secs; March 01, 2025

2025 February 28 - Athena to the Moon

0 secs; February 28, 2025

2025 February 27 - Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158

0 secs; February 27, 2025

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