Astronomy Pictures of the Day: February 2 - 8, 2014

As the world looks to Sochi, take a chance and look up to the stars. This week on APOD we have a galaxy or two, but we also have some pictures courtesy of China. One’s an airglow and starscape from Yunnan Province, and the other is a panoramic view from the Yutu moon rover. Check them out after seeing the night sky from Monument Valley in the following list.

Astronomy Pictures of the Day: Week of January 26, 2014

Keep looking at the cosmos as we see the Astronomy Pictures of the Day for the week of January 26. There’s plenty to see whether it’s a galaxy or a view from the Kennedy Space Center or Finland. Open up a panoramic image to see a band of the Milky Way without having to travel to South America.

Astronomy Pictures of the Day: January 19 - 25, 2014

Another year gives another attempt to look at the cosmos. This week on APOD, when not looking at galaxies, you can learn about a big storm in Michigan decades ago. In more recent history, the Mars Opportunity rover landed on the red planet around ten years ago. Check out the pictures, and download a copy of the APOD 2014 calendar while you visit the site.

Astronomy Pictures of the Day: December 15 - 21, 2013

I try to balance the content aggregation I collect with the original material. Before another movie review or trip report, let’s look at last week’s Astronomy Pictures of the Day. In this week the moon was in focus with two different pictures, and the week ended with some information about solar wavelengths to commemorate the winter solstice.

Astronomy Pictures of the Day: Week of October 27, 2013

Too much time has passed since the last update. While I have been posting the Astronomy Pictures of the Day to Twitter, I have been aggregating the pictures on my own. Here’s the series of astronomy pictures from last week.

Astronomy Pictures of the Day: November 11 - 17, 2012

Every once in a while, instead of a neat image, NASA posts a link to a video with an explanation. Last week we had a video from the Youtube user melodysheep. With that, here are the NASA Astronomy Pictures of the Day for the week of November 11, 2012.

Astronomy Pictures of the Day: Week of September 23, 2012

When I was at Northwestern University, I was excited to get my hands on Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and install it the first day of release. One of its new features was Automator, which let users create scripts using basic templates without too much knowledge of computer languages. I made my own script, using directions from a magazine, to take the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, download it to my computer, and set the image to be my desktop.

The APOD site, in addition to displaying excellent images, offers descriptions of the phenomena shown. You could look through the archive, or you could just look through this list of APOD material for the week of September 23, 2012.