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Astronomy Picture of the Day - APOD is 30 Years Old Today
NASA ^
| 16 Jun, 2025
| Image Credit: Pixelization of Van Gogh's The Starry Night by Dario Giannobile
Posted on 06/16/2025 11:59:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: APOD is 30 years old today. In celebration, today's picture uses past APODs as tiles arranged to create a single pixelated image that might remind you of one of the most well-known and evocative depictions of planet Earth's night sky. In fact, this Starry Night consists of 1,836 individual images contributed to APOD over the last 5 years in a mosaic of 32,232 tiles. Today, APOD would like to offer a sincere thank you to our contributors, volunteers, and readers. Over the last 30 years your continuing efforts have allowed us to enjoy, inspire, and share a discovery of the cosmos.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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posted on
06/16/2025 12:00:03 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Pinging the APOD list
🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔
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posted on
06/16/2025 12:01:35 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Happy 30th birthday APOD. Before you blow out the birthday candles you might want to make a wish to be cured from the woke mind virus that occasionally has surface eruptions. Don’t cut off your ear before making this wish!
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posted on
06/16/2025 12:06:32 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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posted on
06/16/2025 12:33:19 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: MtnClimber
That’s tres kewl. I haven’t really kept up with APOD, probably should, but that’s a lot of stuff to keep up with.
Wonder if it’s still being hosted by MTU. Hmm...
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posted on
06/16/2025 12:35:49 PM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Solzhenitsyn was an optimist...)
To: MtnClimber
That is remarkable - it just needed just one more level of magnification!
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posted on
06/16/2025 12:36:16 PM PDT
by
spankalib
To: Kommodor
Wonder if it’s still being hosted by MTU. Hmm... Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
YEP
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posted on
06/16/2025 12:40:28 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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Great Job.
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posted on
06/16/2025 1:08:57 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
To: spankalib
For a while they were posting substandard photos that seemed to be posted just because the photographers were Arabic or Chinese. It seemed to be a continuation of 0bamas’ outreach directive for NASA, but continued long after ZERO was no longer “Dear Leader”. It seems to be reduced since President Trump was elected for the third time. I am happy about that.
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posted on
06/16/2025 1:10:02 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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posted on
06/16/2025 1:15:01 PM PDT
by
BBB333
(The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
To: MtnClimber
Starry Night is fitting! Happy 30th, APOD!
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posted on
06/16/2025 1:18:14 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: MtnClimber
In the center is cousin IT. Didn't know he could fly.
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posted on
06/16/2025 2:50:11 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
That’s a good observation. Thanks!
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