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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
APOD: 2026 July 20 Б NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula
20.07.2026
What's happening in the Statue of Liberty nebula? Bright stars and interesting molecules are forming and being liberated. The complex nebula resides in the star forming region called RCW 57, and besides the iconic monument, to some looks like a flying superhero or a weeping angel.
APOD: 2026 July 19 Б Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert
19.07.2026
A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. The year was 2004, and no space aliens were involved. The saucer, pictured here...
APOD: 2026 July 18 БShadow and Rainbow
18.07.2026
At sunset, an alignment of rainbow and mountain shadow was captured in this remarkable snapshot. The stunning view was recorded from a fire lookout on Smith Peak in the Plumas National Forest near Portola, California on July 13.
APOD: 2026 July 17 Б The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2
17.07.2026
Comet 10P/Tempel 2 orbits the Sun once every 5.4 years. Currently visible in binoculars or small telescopes toward the constellation Capricornus, the periodic comet is captured in this sharp telescopic image from July 11 sporting a bright nuclear region and pretty greenish coma.
NGC 300: A Cosmic Gemstone with Stars and Gas Clouds
16.07.2026
This sparkling, colorful gemstone is a spiral galaxy, NGC 300. It is one of the closest spiral galaxies to Earth, only about 6 million light-years away. But does it really look like this? Here is a more standard portrait of it.
APOD: 2026 July 15 Б Red Sprites in the Tatacoa Desert
15.07.2026
Is there an angry Sith using force lightning in the Tatacoa Desert? This is not science fiction, but a red sprite with multiple streamers! Ordinary lightning occurs when thundercloud particles collide, lose their electrons, and build up negative charge at the cloud bottom.
APOD: 2026 July 14 Б Double Lobed Asteroid Torifune
14.07.2026
Why is this asteroid a double? Earlier this month the Japanese robotic spacecraft Hayabusa2 shot past asteroid 98943 Torifune and captured pictures. Although previous observations from distant Earth indicated that Torifune was oblong, Hayabusa2 found that Torifune actually has two joined lobes.
APOD: 2026 July 12 Б Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams
12.07.2026
What's happening to galaxy NGC 474? The multiple layers of emission appear strangely complex given the relatively featureless appearance of the elliptical galaxy in less deep images. The cause of the shells...
APOD: 2026 July 11 Б Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud
11.07.2026
Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in the Sagittarius spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy.
APOD: 2026 July 10 Б Western Moon, Eastern Sea
10.07.2026
The Mare Orientale, Latin for Eastern Sea, is one of the most striking large scale lunar features. The youngest of the large lunar impact basins it's very difficult to see from an earthbound perspective.
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