NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
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To find and view past APODs, tap here: t.me/apodQA/3 NASA's APOD presence in Telegram: πapod.nasa.gov Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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Channel NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod_telegram) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 35 092 subscribers, ranking 395 in the Facts category and 1 003 in the USA region.
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Since its creation on Π½Π΅Π²ΡΠ΄ΠΎΠΌΠΎ, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 35 092 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 05 September, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by 229 over the last 30 days and by -17 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Verified (Officially confirmed by Telegram)
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 16.25%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 6.91% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 5 701 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 2 425 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 64.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as copyright, orion, jupiter, dust, nasa.
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2026 September 6
Pluto in Enhanced Color
Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Inst.
Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System's most famous dwarf planet, taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in 2015 July, have been digitally combined to give an enhanced-color view of this ancient world sporting an unexpectedly young surface. The featured enhanced color image is not only esthetically pretty but scientifically useful, making surface regions of differing chemical composition visually distinct. For example, the light-colored heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio on the lower right is clearly shown here to be divisible into two regions that are geologically different, with the leftmost lobe, Sputnik Planitia, also appearing unusually smooth. After Pluto, New Horizons continued on, shooting past asteroid Arrokoth in 2019 with enough speed to escape our Solar System completely.
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| 2 | Tomorrow's picture:Β enhancing Pluto | 1 762 |
| 3 |  2026 September 5
Chasing the Moon's Shadow
Image Credit: NASA
Chasing the shadow of a New Moon, NASAβs WB-57F high altitude research aircraft took to the skies off the coast of Iceland on August 12 to observe a total solar eclipse. At 50,000 feet the aircraft was piloted along the precisely determined path of totality to maximize its time in the Moonβs shadow. A suite of high-resolution cameras on board was able to record eclipse data from above the clouds, dust, and atmospheric water vapor that interfere with observations made closer to the ground. This view from the cockpit, taken from an inflight video, captures the solar corona emerging at the beginning of totality. The sky appears dark in the shadow of the Moon. Venus is shining left of center in the video frame, while Jupiter and Mercury are just visible to the right of the eclipsed Sun. But the sky is bright along the distant horizon below, beyond the reach of the Moon's shadow.
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| 4 | Tomorrow's picture:Β chasing shadows | 2 630 |
| 5 |  2026 September 4
NΔ Κ»Uhane MΔhoe Huki PΕ« i ke Ola
Image Credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab),
T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
NΔ Κ»Uhane MΔhoe Huki PΕ« i ke Ola, is the Hawaiian name given to this image of a pair of spiral galaxies locked in a mutual gravitational embrace. Some 200 million light-years distant toward the high flying constellation Pegasus their spectacular, galactic scale merger is captured in sharp detail in the image from the 8.1 meter Gemini North telescope on Maunakea, Hawaiβi. The galaxy pair, known as NGC 7253 and Arp 278, was chosen as a target, researched, and given an Hawaiian name by high school students in the joint Gemini Observatory and University of HawaiΚ»i Project HΕkΕ«lani internship program. The name translates to "The Twin Spirits Pulling Together Creating Life". That's both culturally and astronomically appropriate for galaxy collisions that trigger a cosmic maelstrom of star formation from galactic reservoirs of elemental building blocks of life. These merging galaxies are found within a region of Pegasus identified as the Hawaiian navigational constellation Ka Lupe o Kawelo.
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| 6 | Tomorrow's picture: aloha | 2 987 |
| 7 | π Poll | 3 279 |
| 8 |  2026 September 3
The Eclipse and the Stork
Image Credit & Copyright: WΕodzimierz Bubak
Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse. If you are lucky enough to experience a total eclipse somewhere quiet and close to nature, you may be able to notice unusual daytime animal behaviors. During totality, you may hear nighttime sounds like crickets and frogs and see fireflies. In the dark, most birds are quiet. Thinking that it is time to go to bed, ducks and other waterfowl prepare to sleep on one leg, with their heads turned around and their beaks tucked into their back feathers (they don't really sleep with their heads tucked under one wing). When sunlight returns at the end of totality, songbirds greet the new "morning" with their dawn songs. The crickets and frogs go quiet again. Animals and people resume their lifes, only briefly disturbed by the chance alignment of our Sun and Moon.
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| 9 |  2026 September 2
Solar Eclipses and Culture
Image Credit & Copyright: Javier Castro
Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
Pretend you have never heard of a solar eclipse. The Sunβs behavior has been predictable your whole life. One day, you witness the sky transform as it does in todayβs spliced image spanning two hours of the August 12, 2026 solar eclipse. The Sun disappears, leaving behind a bright, empty ring. What would you think had happened? Humans have interpreted eclipses in countless ways throughout history, embedding beliefs about connection, rebirth, or danger into culture. βEclipseβ comes from the Greek word βΓ©kleipsisβ meaning βabandonmentβ. In ancient Greece, the solar eclipse marked the anger of the gods and the Sun abandoning humanity. To the DinΓ© people, this celestial alignment is a time of renewal. Out of respect and to avoid the danger of sunlight, the DinΓ© stay inside until the Sun and Moon separate. The Batammariba people of Benin and Togo believe that the Sun and Moon fight during an eclipse, so the community encourages peace among themselves. Eclipses are an example of the longstanding connection between astronomy and society.
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| 10 | Tomorrow's picture: cultural eclipses | 3 712 |
| 11 |  2026 September 1
A Plane Lunar Eclipse
Image Credit: Paulo Ferreira
Did you need to be on the right side of this airplane to see this eclipse? No. Lunar eclipses are routinely seen from the half of the Earth facing the Moon when the eclipse occurs, making them some of the most commonly witnessed astronomical events. You don't even need any special equipment to see one -- just your unaided eyes. Lunar eclipses are also some of the most photographed astronomical events because, unlike with a solar eclipse, your eyes and camera do not have to look toward the bright Sun. However, considering the featured image taken last week from Portugal, if you were on the left side of that airplane during takeoff, you might have trouble seeing it -- at first. But even then, after takeoff, since lunar eclipses typically last for hours, you might soon be able to safely cross the aisle(s) to see it.
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| 12 | Tomorrow's picture: eclipse flight | 4 071 |
| 13 | What is the relationship between the main mirrors of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)? | 4 553 |
| 14 |  2026 August 31
Launch of the Roman Space Telescope
Video Credit: NASA
A new telescope has been launched into space to study the universe. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST) has the same size main mirror as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) but sees 100 times more sky during each snapshot. This is possible because when compared to HST, RST's main mirror is more curved, its secondary mirror is closer, and its main camera is larger. The result is that RST can inspect more of the sky more quickly, likely allowing, among other capabilities, the discovery of many more supernovas which tell us more about the expansion rate and composition of our universe, and many more planets orbiting other stars that tell us more about the possibilities for life elsewhere in the universe. RST will orbit the Sun, not the Earth, like the James Webb Space Telescope. The featured video shows Roman being launched yesterday from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
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| 15 | Tomorrow's picture: new space telescope π | 4 525 |
| 16 | Why is M74 called a "grand design" spiral galaxy? | 5 195 |
| 17 |  2026 August 30
M74: A Grand Design Spiral
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA)- ESA / Hubble Collaboration
Acknowledgment: R. Chandar (U. Toledo) & J. Miller (U. Michigan)
If not the most grand, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, M74 presents a gorgeous face-on view. Classified as an Sc galaxy, the grand design of M74's graceful spiral arms are traced by bright blue star clusters and dark cosmic dust lanes. Constructed from archival images, this sharp composite is from the Hubble Space Telescope. Spanning about 30,000 light-years across the face of M74, it includes exposures recording emission from hydrogen atoms, highlighting the reddish glow of the galaxy's large star-forming regions.
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| 18 | Tomorrow's picture: a grand design | 4 315 |
| 19 |  2026 August 29
Eclipse Pair
Image Credit & Copyright: GwenaΓ«l Blanck
Eclipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can nearly align. Then the new and full phases of the Moon, separated by just over 14 days, create a solar and a lunar eclipse. But only rarely is the alignment at both new moon and full moon during a single eclipse season close enough to produce a pair with both total solar and lunar eclipses. More often, partial eclipses are part of any eclipse season. But, the last eclipse season of 2026 did produce this fortnight-separated pairing of a total solar eclipse on August 12 (top) and an almost total lunar eclipse on the night of August 27/28. At New Moon, the solar eclipse was captured at Peñafiel, Spain near the beginning of totality in this HDR composite image, revealing a flash of Bailey's beads and a golden solar corona. At the following Full Moon, the deep partial lunar eclipse was recorded from Sèvres, France. Also an HDR composite, the image shows this partial eclipse at closer to half its 93 percent maximum phase, so about half the visible lunar disk appears darkened and reddened within Earth's umbral shadow. The coming eclipse season will see an annular solar eclipse on 2027 February 6 paired with a penumbral lunar eclipse on February 20/21.
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| 20 | Growing Gallery:Β Lunar Eclipse of 2026 August 28
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