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Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, this week’s near-Earth asteroid flybys and the latest full-disk photos of Earth from deep space, built from public NASA data.

Where the data comes from

Data: Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) as published on NASA Science (science.nasa.gov); asteroid data from NASA’s Near Earth Object Web Service (NeoWs, api.nasa.gov) and the JPL Small-Body Database Close Approach Data API; Earth images from the NASA EPIC camera aboard NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite (epic.gsfc.nasa.gov). APOD images belong to the credited photographers and institutions and are shown from their original addresses. OpenOrbit is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA, JPL or NOAA. These agencies do not endorse OpenOrbit or any product or service on this site.

Images and text

Astronomy Picture of the Day images and videos are the work of the photographers, observatories and space agencies named in each credit line, and many are copyrighted. OpenOrbit does not copy or host them: each one is displayed from its original address together with its credit. We quote only the first one or two sentences of each APOD explanation and link to the full entry on science.nasa.gov. If you are a rights holder and want an image removed from our pages, email [email protected].

Earth images from the EPIC camera are NASA public data and are also shown from their original addresses (epic.gsfc.nasa.gov).

Not an official site

OpenOrbit is an independent site. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA, JPL or NOAA, and it does not use their logos. Asteroid information here is for general interest only and is not an alerting service.

Who runs this site

OpenOrbit is part of OPENBLOG, a family of free information sites. The site is supported by advertising. Questions or corrections: [email protected].