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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
APOD: 2026 June 13 Б Interplanetary Earth
13.06.2026
In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013 Earth was photographed on the same day from two other worlds of the Solar System, innermost planet Mercury and ringed gas giant Saturn. Pictured...
APOD: 2026 June 12 Б Venus and Jupiter: Conjunction from Avebury
12.06.2026
To see Venus and Jupiter together this month, you won't need binoculars or even a telescope. Just look up after sunset and you'll find them emerging as the sky grows dark near the western horizon.
APOD: 2026 June 11 Б The Mermaid Nebula Supernova Remnant
11.06.2026
Could the Little Mermaid turn into stardust instead of seafoam? It would seem so in this beautiful nebula. The featured image shows the Mermaid Nebula, also known as the Betta Fish Nebula, which is part of the G296.5+10.0 Supernova Remnant.
APOD: 2026 June 10 Б The Eagle Nebula and Friends
10.06.2026
What looks as if it is going to swallow the great Pillars of Creation? The Eagle Nebula (M16) is not a bird, a plane, or Superman. M16 is actually a combination of several celestial objects. NGC 6611 is the young star cluster that appears to peak out beneath the EagleБs БwingsБ.
APOD: 2026 June 9 Б Thors Helmet
9.06.2026
Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens. Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across.
APOD: 2026 June 8 Б Comet R3 PanSTARRS Through Time
8.06.2026
What happens to a comet as it leaves our inner Solar System? Now, the arrival of a comet into the inner Solar System is typically heralded with great fanfare and high hopes that the comet will become bright and photogenic.
APOD: 2026 June 7 Б Jupiter and Venus from Earth
7.06.2026
It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter (left) and Venus (right) in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on our planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them.
APOD: 2026 June 6 Б Charon: Moon of Pluto
6.06.2026
A darkened and mysterious north polar region known to some as Mordor Macula caps this premier view of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. The high-resolution image was captured by the interplanetary space probe New Horizons near its closest approach to distant Pluto on July 14, 2015.
APOD: 2026 June 5 Б The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies
5.06.2026
Within our own Milky Way galaxy, two bright, spiky stars stand like sentinels in the foreground of this cosmic snapshot. Far beyond them are the galaxies of the Hydra Cluster. In fact, while the spiky foreground stars are hundreds of light-years distant, the Hydra Cluster galaxies are well over 100 million light-years away.
APOD: 2026 June 4 Б A Planetary Nebula with Cosmic Buckyballs
4.06.2026
What is happening inside this unusual nebula? Planetary nebula Tc 1, captured here in exquisite detail by the James Webb Space Telescope, is the celestial site where buckyballs were first identified in 2010. Buckminsterfullerene...
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