Apod

• Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3

  Put on your red/blue glasses and gaze across the western Ocean of Storms on the surface of the Moon

• NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda

  The large stellar association cataloged as NGC 206 is nestled within the dusty arms of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy along with the galaxy's pinkish star-forming regions

• Moon, Venus and Spica Meet

  Not all those who wander are lost

• NGC 4449: Small Galaxy, Big Impact

  Don’t judge a galaxy by its size

• Saturn Behind the Moon

  Sometimes Saturn disappears

• Rigel and the Witch Head Nebula

  Does the blue nebula look like the head of a witch? The nebula is known popularly as the Witch Head Nebula because, it is said, the nebula's shape resembles a Halloween-style caricature of a witch's head

• Major Fireball Meteor

  The sky glows with soft pinkish colors of fading twilight in this serendipitous mountaintop vista

• De Gerlache-Kocher Massif

  De Gerlache-Kocher massif looms on the visible horizon in this close-up of the edge of the Moon

• A Farewell to Swift

  It is time to say goodbye to NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

• Enceladus in Silhouette

  One of our Solar System's most tantalizing worlds, Enceladus is backlit by the Sun in this Cassini spacecraft image from November 1, 2009