ASTRONOMY PICTURE

OF THE DAY

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Full Moon

DEC 12, 2003

Full Moondark

JAN 27, 2005

Shadow Set

JUN 23, 2005

Moonrise, Cape Sounion, Greece

JUL 13, 2005

Analemma of the Moon

AUG 26, 2005

Full Moon, Green Rim

NOV 25, 2005

Moon Over Antarctica

FEB 4, 2006

Shadow Set

NOV 4, 2006

Paranal Moonset

JAN 3, 2007

Twenty Full Moons

JUN 2, 2007

3D Full Moon

JUN 7, 2007

Great Mountain Moonrise

JUL 28, 2007

Full Moondark

SEP 26, 2007

Saguaro Moon

OCT 25, 2007

Apogee Moon, Perigee Moon

AUG 20, 2008

Earth’s Shadow

AUG 21, 2008

August Moons

NOV 22, 2008

From Moonrise to Sunset

DEC 12, 2008

Lick Observatory Moonrise

APR 16, 2009

Castle and Full Moon

OCT 3, 2009

Old Faith-Full Moon

NOV 5, 2009

Halloween’s Moon

JAN 1, 2010

Not a Blue Moon

JAN 2, 2010

Blue Moon Eclipse

SEP 24, 2010

Equinox and the Harvest Moon

MAR 20, 2011

Parthenon Moon

MAR 24, 2011

Boston Moonrise

APR 20, 2011

Rio Morning Moonset

JUL 5, 2011

A Triangular Shadow of a Large Volcano

SEP 16, 2011

September’s Harvest Moon

JAN 20, 2012

The Wolf’s Moon

MAR 10, 2012

Lick Observatory Moonrise

MAY 5, 2012

Full Moonrise

MAY 10, 2012

Green Flash and Super Moon

MAY 11, 2012

Sun vs. Super Moon

SEP 1, 2012

On a Blue Moon

NOV 3, 2012

Hunter’s Moon over the Alps

FEB 28, 2013

Snow Moon for a Snowy Planet

JUN 22, 2013

Perigee’s Full Moon

JAN 18, 2014

Apogee’s Full Moon

JAN 21, 2014

Micro Moon over Super Moon

JUN 13, 2014

A Strawberry Moon

JUN 21, 2014

Lisbon Honey Moon

JUL 19, 2014

Alicante Beach Moonrise

AUG 14, 2014

Surreal Moon

AUG 15, 2014

Perseid in Moonlight

SEP 7, 2014

Full Moon Silhouettes

SEP 8, 2014

Super Moon vs. Micro Moon

JAN 10, 2015

The Windmill’s Moon

MAR 13, 2015

The Great Wall by Moonlight

MAY 3, 2015

Moonrise Through Mauna Kea’s Shadow

JUN 5, 2015

Green Flash at Moonrise

JUN 23, 2016

Solstice Dawn and Full Moonset

JUN 25, 2016

Strawberry to Honey Moonrise

SEP 16, 2016

Full Moon over Brno

OCT 12, 2016

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse

OCT 21, 2016

Full Moon in Mountain Shadow

NOV 17, 2016

Soyuz vs Supermoon

NOV 18, 2016

Philadelphia Perigee Full Moon

DEC 16, 2016

Meteors vs Supermoon

JUN 16, 2017

Manhattan Moonrise

JUL 13, 2017

Full Moon and Boston Light

JUL 18, 2017

Thunder Moon over Pisa

AUG 9, 2017

August’s Lunar Eclipse

NOV 5, 2017

A Year of Full Moons

DEC 3, 2017

Full Moon Silhouettes

DEC 8, 2017

Alpine Superga Moonset

JUN 30, 2018

The East 96th Street Moon

MAR 10, 2019

Moonrise Through Mauna Kea’s Shadow

MAR 23, 2019

Four Towers and the Equinox Moon

JUN 18, 2019

Strawberry Moon over the Temple of Poseidon

SEP 13, 2019

A Harvest Moon

NOV 11, 2020

Colors of the Moon

FEB 22, 2021

Moon Rising Between Starships

AUG 26, 2021

A Blue Hour Full Moon

AUG 31, 2021

A Blue Moon in Exaggerated Colors

OCT 10, 2021

Full Moon Silhouettes

NOV 18, 2021

Full Moonlight

JAN 1, 2022

The Full Moon of 2021

JAN 22, 2022

The Full Moon and the Dancer

FEB 28, 2022

Direct Projection: The Moon in My Hands

JUN 16, 2022

Strawberry Supermoon from China

JUL 15, 2022

Lubovna Full Moon

SEP 15, 2022

Harvest Moon over Sicily

JAN 27, 2024

Full Observatory Moon

FEB 13, 2024

A January Wolf Moon

MAR 11, 2024

A Full Plankton Moon

AUG 24, 2024

South Pacific Shadowset