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The Sky Today on Sunday, September 20: Juno’s movement
Sun September 20th, 2026
Sun September 20th, 2026
Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover – Photo stream updated daily!
Camera: Front Hazard Avoidance Camera - Left
Earth Date: Tue February 4th, 2025
Sol: 1409
Camera: Front Hazard Avoidance Camera - Left
Earth Date: Tue February 4th, 2025
Sol: 1409
Camera: Front Hazard Avoidance Camera - Left
Earth Date: Tue February 4th, 2025
Sol: 1409
Camera: Front Hazard Avoidance Camera - Left
Earth Date: Tue February 4th, 2025
Sol: 1409
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (September 27th, 2026):
Andromeda before Photoshop
From NASA: "What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like? The featured image shows how our Milky Way Galaxy's closest major galactic neighbor really appears in a long exposure through Earth's busy skies and with a digital camera that introduces normal imperfections. The picture is a stack of 223 images, each a 300 second exposure, taken from a garden observatory in Portugal during 2019. Obvious image deficiencies include bright parallel airplane trails, long and continuous satellite trails, short cosmic ray streaks, and bad pixels. These imperfections were actually not removed with Photoshop specifically, but rather greatly reduced with a series of computer software packages that included Astro Pixel Processor, DeepSkyStacker, and PixInsight. All of this work was done not to deceive you with a digital fantasy that has little to do with the real likeness of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), but to minimize Earthly artifacts that have nothing to do with the distant galaxy and so better recreate what M31 really does look like. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod"