Astronomy Picture of the Day · October 2025

APOD, October 2025

31 entries from October 2025: 30 images and 1 videos. 19 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.

A starfield is shown that has a multi-filament nebula flowing across it horizontally. The most prominent colors are red and blue. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. October 1, 2025 · Copyrighted

NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Brian MeyersPluto at Night October 2, 2025

Pluto at Night

Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins Univ./APL , Southwest Research InstitutePandora's Cluster of Galaxies October 3, 2025

Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , CSA , Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh), Processing: Alyssa Pagan ( STScI )The Rotating Moon October 4, 2025 · Video

The Rotating Moon

Video Credit: NASA , Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter , Arizona State U.The planet Saturn is shown in infrared with great detail visible on its cloud tops. The rings appear as a thin blue horizontal line. She shadow of the rings appear as curving dark lines on the clouds. Near the top one of the tan cloud bands October 5, 2025

A Long Storm System on Saturn

Image Credit: NASA , JPL , ESA , Cassini Imaging Team , SSIA comet with a green head at the bottom and a complex tail extending toward the top is shown, horizontally side by side, six times. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. October 6, 2025 · Copyrighted

The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Lemmon

Images Credit & Copyright: Victor Sabet & Julien De WinterAn image shows a cluster of galaxies with unusual arcs. The arcs are background galaxies distorted by the gravitational lens effect of the foreground cluster. The background galaxy shows several spots that are supernovas occurring in the ga October 7, 2025

SN Encore: A Second Supernova Seen Several Times

Images Credit: Webb (main): NASA , ESA , CSA , STScI , J. Pierel ( STScI ) & A. Newman ( Carnegie Inst. for Science ); Hubble (rollover): NASA , ESA , STScI , S. A. Rodney ( U. South Carolina ) & G. Brammer ( NBI, U. Copenhagen )A starfield is shown surrounding a bright gaseous nebula in red with bits of white and blue. Pillars of dust and gas appear around the interior of the nebula pointing to energetic stars in a cluster in the nebula. Please see the explanation October 8, 2025 · Copyrighted

NGC 7380: The Wizard Nebula

Images Credit & Copyright: Nevenka Blagovic Horvat & Miroslav HorvatThe Jenga Moon October 9, 2025 · Copyrighted

The Jenga Moon

Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Carroll50 Light-years to 51 Pegasi October 10, 2025 · Copyrighted

50 Light-years to 51 Pegasi

Image Credit & Copyright: José RodriguesManicouagan Impact Crater from Space October 11, 2025

Manicouagan Impact Crater from Space

Image Credit: NASA , International Space Station Expedition 59Earth without water is shown on the right, while Jupiter's moon Europa is shown on the left. Superposed on each object is a blue sphere estimating the amount of water each object contains. The blue spheres are about the same size. Please se October 12, 2025 · Copyrighted

All the Water on Europa

Illustration Credit & Copyright: Kevin Hand ( JPL/Caltech ), Jack Cook ( Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ), & Howard Perlman ( USGS )A tree is seen silhouetted against a night sky filled with stars. Above the tree with its tail pointing nearly vertically is a comet: Comet Lemmon. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. October 13, 2025 · Copyrighted

Lemmon Tree

Image Credit & Copyright: Uroš FinkThe featured image shows an interstellar gas globule that looks like a monster superposed against a glowing red background. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. October 14, 2025 · Copyrighted

An Unusual Globule in IC 1396

Image Credit & Copyright: Joachim KorbA horizon including the Tucson skyline and Saguaro cacti shows the sky just after sunset. Prominent in the sky are clouds oddly shaped like a fish -- but are the launch plume of a recently launched rocket from California. Please see the exp October 15, 2025 · Copyrighted

Rocket Launch Plume over Tucson

Image Credit & Copyright: Wayne ShowalterYoung Suns of NGC 7129 October 16, 2025 · Copyrighted

Young Suns of NGC 7129

Image Credit & Copyright: Timothy MartinIda and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon October 17, 2025

Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon

Image Credit: NASA , JPL , Galileo Mission3D Bennu October 18, 2025 · Copyrighted

3D Bennu

Image Credit: NASA , GSFC , U. Arizona – Stereo Image Copyright: Patrick VantuyneThe nucleus of a comet is shown against the dark of deep space. The comet's surface is jagged and irregular. A stream of dust and gas drifts off to the upper left. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. October 19, 2025

Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko Creates Its Tails

Image Credit & License: ESA , Rosetta , NAVCAMA night sky is seen over a lake. The sky contains numerous stars including the Big Dipper asterism. Prominent in the sky is a comet with a long tail. Both the Big Dipper and the comet are seen reflected in the still water of the lake. Pleas October 20, 2025 · Copyrighted

Finding Comet Lemmon

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in OpavaA starfield is shown filled with colorful gas glowing in different colors, and dark dust. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. October 21, 2025 · Copyrighted

IC 1805: The Heart Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Toni FabianiA mountain range is shown in the foreground with a bright comet visible above it. The comet shows tails that are long and bright with the longer tail appearing light blue. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. October 22, 2025 · Copyrighted

Comet Lemmon over the High Tatras

Image Credit & Copyright: Tomáš Slovinský & Constantine ThemelisSWAN, Swan, Eagle October 23, 2025 · Copyrighted

SWAN, Swan, Eagle

Image Credit & Copyright: Adam BlockSaturn at Night October 24, 2025

Saturn at Night

Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Space Science Institute , Mindaugas MacijauskasWebb's Rho Ophiuchi October 25, 2025

Webb's Rho Ophiuchi

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , CSA , STScI , Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI),A white nebula appears in a colorful star field. To some, the nebula appears like a ghost. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. October 26, 2025

Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri ( Observatoire de Paris ) et al.,A dark sky shows bright comet with its tails extending diagonally from the lower left. Two tails are visible for the comet -- a long blue tail and a shorter wider white tail. Oddly, a wiggly tan stream appears to be a third tail -- but is a October 27, 2025

Two Tails of Comet Lemmon

Image Credit: Massimo PennaThe featured image shows a starfield with a multi- colored nebula in the center. The nebula is quite filamentary but appears to some like a bat. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. October 28, 2025 · Copyrighted

NGC 6995: The Bat Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Francis Bozon-GangloffA dark star field surrounds an unusual clump of brown dust. To some, the dust clumps appear as shapes of people or monsters. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. October 29, 2025 · Copyrighted

Dust Shapes of the Ghost Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Kent WoodLynds Dark Nebula 43 October 30, 2025 · Copyrighted

Lynds Dark Nebula 43

Image Credit & Copyright: Team Ciel AustralGhosts in Cassiopeia October 31, 2025 · Copyrighted

Ghosts in Cassiopeia

Image Credit & Copyright: Alex Rodriguez

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