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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].

2024 August 11 - Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower

0 secs; August 11, 2024

2024 August 10 - The Light, Dark, and Dusty Trifid

4 mins; August 10, 2024

2024 August 09 - A Perseid Below

3 mins; August 09, 2024

2024 August 08 - Periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle

0 secs; August 08, 2024

2024 August 07 - Milky Way Behind Three Merlons

3 mins; August 07, 2024

2024 August 06 - Storm Cloud over Texas

0 secs; August 06, 2024

2024 August 05 - Milky Way over Tunisia

0 secs; August 05, 2024

2024 August 04 - Gaia: Here Comes the Sun

0 secs; August 04, 2024

2024 August 03 - Glory and the Fog Bow

0 secs; August 03, 2024

2024 August 02 - Mars Passing By

0 secs; August 02, 2024

2024 August 01 - Comet Olbers over Kunetice Castle

0 secs; August 01, 2024

2024 July 31 - Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks

3 mins; July 31, 2024

2024 July 30 - Arp 142: Interacting Galaxies from Webb

0 secs; July 30, 2024

2024 July 29 - Milky Way over Uluru

0 secs; July 29, 2024

2024 July 28 - Sun Dance

3 mins; July 28, 2024

2024 July 27 - Saturn at the Moon's Edge

4 mins; July 27, 2024

2024 July 26 - Facing NGC 6946

0 secs; July 26, 2024

2024 July 25 - NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula

0 secs; July 25, 2024

2024 July 24 - Exaggerated Moon

0 secs; July 24, 2024

2024 July 23 - The Crab Nebula from Visible to X-Ray

0 secs; July 23, 2024

2024 July 22 - Chamaelon Dark Nebulas

0 secs; July 22, 2024

2024 July 21 - King of Wings Hoodoo under the Milky Way

3 mins; July 21, 2024

2024 July 20 - Apollo 11 Landing Panorama

0 secs; July 20, 2024

2024 July 19 - Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet Festival

0 secs; July 19, 2024

2024 July 18 - Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud

0 secs; July 18, 2024

2024 - July 17 - Villarrica Volcano Against the Sky

0 secs; July 17, 2024

2024 July 16 - Cometary Globules

0 secs; July 16, 2024

2024 July 15 - The Tadpole Galaxy from Hubble

0 secs; July 15, 2024

2024 July 14 - Meteor Misses Galaxy

0 secs; July 14, 2024

2024 July 13 - Solar System Family Portrait

0 secs; July 13, 2024

2024 July 12 - Jones-Emberson 1

0 secs; July 12, 2024

2024 July 11 - Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri

0 secs; July 11, 2024

2024 July 10 - A Sagittarius Triplet

3 mins; July 10, 2024

2024 July 09 - Noctilucent Clouds over Florida

3 mins; July 09, 2024

2024 July 08 - Exoplanet Zoo: Other Stars

0 secs; July 08, 2024

2024 July 07 - Iridescent Clouds over Sweden

0 secs; July 06, 2024

2024 July 06 - Caroline's Rose

0 secs; July 06, 2024

2024 July 05 - Mount Etna Milky Way

0 secs; July 05, 2024

2024 July 04 - A Beautiful Trifid

3 mins; July 04, 2024

2024 July 03 - M83: Star Streams and a Thousand Rubies

0 secs; July 03, 2024

2024 July 02 - NGC 602: Oyster Star Cluster

0 secs; July 02, 2024

2024 July 01 - Time Spiral

4 mins; July 01, 2024

2024 June 30 - Earthrise: A Video Reconstruction

3 mins; June 30, 2024

2024 June 29 - A Solstice Moon

0 secs; June 29, 2024

2024 June 28 - Comet 13P/Olbers

3 mins; June 28, 2024

2024 June 27 - Protostellar Outflows in Serpens

4 mins; June 27, 2024

2024 June 26 - Timelapse: Aurora, SAR, and the Milky Way

3 mins; June 26, 2024

2024 June 25 - The Dark Doodad Nebula

0 secs; June 25, 2024

2024 June 24 - JADES-GS-z14-0: A New Farthest Object

0 secs; June 24, 2024

2024 June 23 - The Colors of Saturn from Cassini

0 secs; June 23, 2024

2024 June 22 - Lynd's Dark Nebula 1251

0 secs; June 22, 2024

2024 June 21 - Hubble's NGC 1546

0 secs; June 20, 2024

2024 June 20 - Sandy and the Moon Halo

0 secs; June 20, 2024

2024 June 19 - Dragons of Ara

0 secs; June 19, 2024

2024 June 18 - Gigantic Jets over Himalayan Mountains

4 mins; June 18, 2024

2024 June 17 - Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula

0 secs; June 17, 2024

2024 June 16 - Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star

0 secs; June 16, 2024

2024 June 15 - Prominences and Filaments on the Active Sun

4 mins; June 15, 2024

2024 June 14 - RCW 85

0 secs; June 14, 2024

2024 June 13 - Messier 66 Close Up

0 secs; June 13, 2024

2024 June 12 - Aurora over Karkonosze Mountains

0 secs; June 12, 2024

2024 June 11 - Colorful Stars and Clouds Near Rho Ophiuchi

0 secs; June 11, 2024

2024 June 10 - Sh2-132: The Lion Nebula

0 secs; June 10, 2024

2024 June 09 - How to Identify that Light in the Sky

3 mins; June 09, 2024

2024 June 08 - Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies

0 secs; June 08, 2024

2024 June 07 - SH2-308: The Dolphin Head Nebula

0 secs; June 07, 2024

2024 June 06 - NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge

0 secs; June 06, 2024

2024 June 05 - Shadow of a Martian Robot

0 secs; June 05, 2024

2024 June 04 - Comet Pons-Brooks Develops Opposing Tails

0 secs; June 04, 2024

2024 June 03 - NGC 2403 in Camelopardalis

0 secs; June 03, 2024

2024 June 02 - Rotating Moon from LRO

4 mins; June 02, 2024

2024 June 01 - Stereo Helene

0 secs; June 01, 2024

2024 May 31 - The Nebulous Realm of WR 134

4 mins; May 31, 2024

2024 May 30 - A Lunar Corona over Paris

0 secs; May 30, 2024

2024 May 29 - Stairway to the Milky Way

0 secs; May 29, 2024

2024 May 28 - Solar X Flare as Famous Active Region Returns

4 mins; May 28, 2024

2024 May 27 - Chameleon I Molecular Cloud

3 mins; May 27, 2024

2024 May 26 - A Solar Filament Erupts

0 secs; May 26, 2024

2024 May 25 - Manicouagan Impact Crater from Space

0 secs; May 25, 2024

2024 May 24 - M78 from the Euclid Space Telescope

0 secs; May 24, 2024

2024 May 23 - Unraveling NGC 3169

3 mins; May 23, 2024

2024 May 22 - Green Aurora over Sweden

0 secs; May 22, 2024

2024 May 21 - CG4: The Globule and the Galaxy

0 secs; May 21, 2024

2024 May 20 - Aurora Dome Sky

3 mins; May 20, 2024

2024 May 19 - Jupiter Diving

0 secs; May 19, 2024

2024 May 18 - North Celestial Aurora

0 secs; May 18, 2024

2024 May 17 - Aurora Banks Peninsula

3 mins; May 17, 2024

2024 May 16 - Aurora Georgia

4 mins; May 16, 2024

2024 May 15 - AR 3664 at the Sun's Edge

0 secs; May 15, 2024

2024 May 14 - The 37 Cluster

0 secs; May 14, 2024

2024 May 13 - AR 3664 on a Setting Sun

0 secs; May 13, 2024

2024 May 12 - Red Aurora over Poland

3 mins; May 12, 2024

2024 May 11 - AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group

0 secs; May 11, 2024

2024 May 10 - Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge

0 secs; May 10, 2024

2024 May 09 - The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole

0 secs; May 09, 2024

2024 May 08 - Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk

0 secs; May 08, 2024

2024 May 07 - Black Hole Accreting with Jet

0 secs; May 07, 2024

2024 May 06 - A Total Solar Eclipse from Sliver to Ring

3 mins; May 06, 2024

2024 May 05 - A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star

0 secs; May 05, 2024

2024 May 04 - 3 ATs

0 secs; May 04, 2024

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