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Astronomy Picture of the Day · March 2025

APOD, March 2025

31 entries from March 2025: 28 images and 3 videos. 16 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.

Blue Ghost to the Moon

Blue Ghost to the Moon

Image Credit: Firefly Aerospace Video March 2, 2025 · Video

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble ; Sonification: G. Salvesen ; Data: M. Rafelski et al.

A dark sky is shown above a bright desolate landscape. The landscape is the Moon and large shadows appear, with one being the shadow of lunar lander. A bright dot appears over the horizon that is distant planet Earth. Please see the explana

Blue Ghost on the Moon

Image Credit: Firefly Aerospace

A hazy night sky shows four lined up items. The closest two are lit-up buildings on hills. Looming large in the background, in alignment, is a gibbous Moon, distorted and reddened by the Earth's atmosphere. Across the Moon's face is a strea

March 4, 2025 · Copyrighted

A Quadruple Alignment over Italy

Image Credit & Copyright: Valerio Minato

The featured image shows a wide field with the red California Nebula on the left, the blue Pleiades Star Cluster on the right, and much brown interstellar dust in between. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

March 5, 2025 · Copyrighted

Seven Sisters versus California

Image Credit & Copyright: Todd Anderson

Starburst Galaxy Messier 94

Starburst Galaxy Messier 94

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA

Planetary Nebula Abell 7

March 7, 2025 · Copyrighted

Planetary Nebula Abell 7

Image Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander

Galaxies in Space

Galaxies in Space

Image Credit & License: NASA , ISS Expedition 72 , Don Petit

The image shows the north pole of Jupiter in red (infrared) light. Many cyclonic swirls surround the pole. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Cyclones at Jupiter's North Pole

Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , SwRI , ASI , INAF , JIRAM

The starry image filled with a red glow features a red, yellow, and blue colored nebula. The nebula has, roughly, the shape of the US state of California. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

March 10, 2025 · Copyrighted

NGC 1499: The California Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Toni Fabiani Mendez

A spiral galaxy is shown in great detail. Visible are blue star clusters, red nebulas, and brown dust in a spiral pattern around the image and galaxy center. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA , O. Fox , L. Jenkins, S. Van Dyk, A. Filippenko, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team, D. de Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)

A dark field is filled with stars and galaxies. A large spiral galaxy appears on the upper left. Toward the right, there is a smaller fuzzy patch that is a comet with a short tail. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

March 12, 2025 · Copyrighted

NGC 772: The Fiddlehead Galaxy

Image Credit & Copyright: Jean-François Bax & Serge Brunier , OCA/C2PU ; Text: Ogetay Kayali (Michigan Tech U.)

The Protostars within Lynds 483

The Protostars within Lynds 483

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , CSA , STScI

Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow

March 14, 2025 · Copyrighted

Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow

Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Lopez ( El Cielo de Canarias )

Tololo Totality

March 15, 2025 · Copyrighted

Tololo Totality

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek /CTIO ( Cerro Tololo Observatory ) /AURA/NSF/ NOIRLab

An image of the Sun in three colors of ultraviolet light showing the transit circle of Venus and a deep coronal hole in dark blue. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun

Image Credit: NASA / SDO & the AIA, EVE, and HMI teams; Digital Composition: Peter L. Dove

The image shows a starfield with an oval shaped red and light-blue tinged nebula in the center Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

March 17, 2025 · Copyrighted

Thor's Helmet

Image Credit & Copyright: Brian Hopkins ( East Coast Astronomer )

A dark brown cloud that appears similar to a shark is seen against a background filled with stars and less prominent blue-shaded nebulas. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

March 18, 2025 · Copyrighted

LDN 1235: The Shark Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Timothy Martin

Blue Ghost's Diamond Ring

Blue Ghost's Diamond Ring

Image Credit: Firefly Aerospace

The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project

March 20, 2025 · Copyrighted

The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project

Image Credit & Copyright: Hunter Wells

March 21, 2025 · Copyrighted

The Leo Trio

Image Credit & Copyright: Rabeea Alkuwari

SuperCam Target on Ma'az

SuperCam Target on Ma'az

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS

Rocks and brown sand occupy this horizontally compressed image of Mars. At the top is a light colored peak. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars

Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS , Curiosity Rover Video March 24, 2025 · Video · Copyrighted

A Total Lunar Eclipse Over Uruguay

Video Credit & Copyright: Mauricio Salazar

A developing total lunar eclipse is shown in three frames. At the top part of the uneclipsed Moon is visible with a distinctive blue band separating it from the rest of the reddened Moon. The middle frame shows a mostly reddened Moon with a

March 25, 2025 · Copyrighted

A Blue Banded Blood Moon

Image Credit & Copyright: Zixiong Jin

A starfield dominated by a large nebula is pictured. The center is blue and the perimeter is red. Many dark dust pillars are visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

March 26, 2025 · Copyrighted

Star Formation in the Pacman Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Montilla ( AAE )

March 27, 2025 · Copyrighted

Messier 81

Image Credit & Copyright: Lorand Fenyes

Lunar Dust and Duct Tape

Lunar Dust and Duct Tape

Image Credit: Apollo 17 , NASA

Stereo Helene

Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , ISS , JPL , ESA , NASA ; Stereo Image by Roberto Beltramini

A a cloudy sky appears with an overall pink - red hue. The Sun appears partially eclipsed over a slanting hill. A person on the hill has their arms raised and appears to be holding up the partially eclipsed Sun. Please see the explanation f

March 30, 2025 · Copyrighted

A Partial Solar Eclipse over Iceland

Image Credit & Copyright: Wioleta Gorecka

Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun

March 31, 2025 · Video

Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun

Video Credit: NASA , JHUAPL , Naval Research Lab , Parker Solar Probe ; h/t: Richard Petarius III ; Music: Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 by N. Rimsky-Korsakov; Source: Musopen ; Performance: Czech National Symphony Orchestra (via Musopen); Music Credit: Wikimedia Commons

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