The APOD Archive

NASA has published one original image with an explanation every day since 16 June 1995. This mirror keeps them searchable — each picture has its own permanent page, ideal for classes, night skies and pure browsing curiosity. Feeling adventurous? Take a random trip through the archive.

120 pictures (newest first)

The Mutual Occultation of Ganymede and Io

2026-10-28

M42: The Great Nebula in Orion

2026-10-26

Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe

2026-10-25

The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435

2026-10-22

New Ghosts Revealed in Cassiopeia

2026-10-21

Treble Clef: Unusual X-ray Hot Radio Source

2026-10-19

Sonified: Eagle Nebula Pillars

2026-10-18

3D 67P

2026-10-17

The Milky Way over Manhattan

2026-10-15

Mars and the Beehive Under an Aurora

2026-10-14

Jupiter and the Moons

2026-10-12

Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos

2026-10-11

The Saturn System Smörgåsbord

2026-10-08

A Complete Auroral Oval from SMILE

2026-10-06

A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin

2026-09-23

Na Uhane Mahoe Huki Pu i ke Ola

2026-09-04

The Eclipse and the Stork

2026-09-03

Solar Eclipses and Culture

2026-09-02

A Plane Lunar Eclipse

2026-09-01

NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula

2026-07-20

The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2

2026-07-17

Double Lobed Asteroid Torifune

2026-07-14

Swift Boost Mission

2026-07-08

Andromeda Through Gas and Dust

2026-06-03

Eagle Nebula Pillars in Infrared from Hubble

2026-05-31

NGC 1300: Barred Spiral Galaxy

2026-05-17

Messier Craters in Stereo

2026-05-09

Superplumes Inside Earth

2026-05-04

Mystic Mountain Monster being Destroyed

2026-04-26

The Persistence of Sunlight

2026-04-25

Eye on the Milky Way

2026-04-19

NGC 602 and Beyond

2026-04-13

Artemis II: Flight Day 6

2026-04-11

Exploring the Antennae

2026-04-10

Leaving Earth

2026-03-22

Twilight with Moon and Planets

2026-02-21

The Bay of Rainbows

2026-02-12

In Green Company: Aurora over Norway

2026-02-10

Crescent Enceladus

2026-02-07

NGC 1275 in the Perseus Cluster

2026-02-05

NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus

2026-01-30

Orions Treasures over Snowy Mountains

2026-01-27

Planetary Nebula Abell 7

2026-01-23

NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula

2026-01-16

The Red Rectangle Nebula from Hubble

2026-01-05

An Artificial Comet

2025-12-30

Andromeda and Sprites over Australia

2025-12-16

Juno Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter

2025-12-14

Flying Over the Earth at Night

2025-12-08

Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater

2025-12-06

M77: Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center

2025-12-02

3I ATLAS: Tails of an Interstellar Comet

2025-12-01

Florida Northern Lights

2025-11-14

A Full Moon at Perigee

2025-11-08

NGC 253: Dusty Island Universe

2025-11-06

Pleiades from Planet Earth

2025-11-01

NGC 7380: The Wizard Nebula

2025-10-08

SN Encore: A Second Supernova Seen Several Times

2025-10-07

The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Lemmon

2025-10-06

The Rotating Moon

2025-10-04

NGC 6960: The Witchs Broom Nebula

2025-10-01

Comet Lemmon Brightens

2025-09-30

GW250114: Rotating Black Holes Collide

2025-09-24

NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars

2025-09-23

The NGC 6914 Complex

2025-09-19

Comet C/2025 R2 SWAN

2025-09-18

Nebulas and Clusters in Sagittarius

2025-09-17

New Comet SWAN25B over Mexico

2025-09-16

Earth During a Powerful Solar Storm

2025-09-15

Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins

2025-09-14

Star Trails over One Mile Radio Telescope

2025-09-13

Lunar Eclipse in Two Hemispheres

2025-09-12

The Umbra of Earth

2025-09-11

The Great Lacerta Nebula

2025-09-10

Up from the Earth: Gigantic Jet Lightning

2025-09-09

IRAS 04302: Butterfly Disk Planet Formation

2025-09-08

All the Water on Planet Earth

2025-09-07

Sardinia Sunset

2025-09-06

47 Tucanae: Globular Star Cluster

2025-09-05

NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge

2025-09-04

Cir X1: Jets in the Africa Nebula

2025-09-03

The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas

2025-09-02

Callisto: Dirty Battered Iceball

2025-09-01

NGC 7027: The Pillow Planetary Nebula

2025-08-31

A Two Percent Moon

2025-08-30

A Dark Veil in Ophiuchus

2025-08-29

Galaxies, Stars, and Dust

2025-08-28

WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk

2025-08-27

A Leaky Solar Prominence

2025-08-26

The Meteor and the Star Cluster

2025-08-25

The Spinning Pulsar of the Crab Nebula

2025-08-24

Fishing for the Moon

2025-08-23

A Tale of Two Nebulae

2025-08-22

Mostly Perseids

2025-08-21

Perseid Meteors from Durdle Door

2025-08-20

Giant Galaxies in Pavo

2025-08-19

NGC 1309: A Useful Spiral Galaxy

2025-08-18

Asperitas Clouds Over New Zealand

2025-08-17

A Cool GIF of a 2025 Perseid

2025-08-16

Moonlight, Planets, and Perseids

2025-08-15

M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

2025-08-14

Trapezium: In the Heart of Orion

2025-08-13

Perseids from Perseus

2025-08-12

Closest Ever Images Near the Sun

2025-08-11

Zodiacal Road

2025-08-10

Interstellar Interloper 3I/ATLAS from Hubble

2025-08-09

Dawn of the Crab

2025-08-08

The Double Cluster in Perseus

2025-08-07

Meteor before Galaxy

2025-08-06

NGC 6072: A Complex Planetary Nebula from Webb

2025-08-05

Blue Arcs Toward Andromeda

2025-08-04

Milky Way and Exploding Meteor

2025-08-03

Fireflies, Meteors, and Milky Way

2025-08-02

Small Dark Nebula

2025-08-01

Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331

2025-07-31

Coronal Loops on the Sun

2025-07-30

A Helix Nebula Deep Field

2025-07-29

Collision at Asteroid Dimorphos

2025-07-28

Lightning over the Volcano of Water

2025-07-27

Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

2025-07-26