Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today

Posted by sohkamyung on Saturday June 17, 2023 @05:51AM
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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by greazy on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:27AM (#36368907)

I found the comparison to the age of movie and sports stars extremely obnoxious. Pluto comparison is on point, start with that!

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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by politelemon on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:29AM (#36368912)

I have no idea who any of them are so it was simply noise I ignored

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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by throwbadubadu on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:57AM (#36369039)

True! What I found amazing is that they started with a computer graphic in the style of the xearth desktop background (now xplanet) at that time, loving it (:

(Quick earliest link found for 94 https://hewgill.com/xearth/ just to add another more meaningful reference date :D)

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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by gsich on Saturday June 17, 2023 @07:39AM (#36369348)

Is there a recent render of the "earth as neutron star" picture?

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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by placesalt on Saturday June 17, 2023 @09:19AM (#36369941)

I've yet to find a better source for desktop pictures/wallpapers.

Cassini images are probably the prettiest, IMO. The shots of large telescopes on the ground are always a bit inspiring.

And the writeups really are nice - IANAA, so it's good to know a /bit/ about what one's looking at.

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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by thom on Saturday June 17, 2023 @09:38AM (#36370052)

It was probably a couple of years before this that I first understood how powerful the internet could be, when my dad showed me a picture taken by a satellite, and in the background you could see the stars. Here was a crummy beige PC on my dad’s desk, talking to robots in space. Wasted most of my time after that on Usenet and IRC, admittedly, but that was definitely when I caught the bug.

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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by NelsonMinar on Saturday June 17, 2023 @09:53AM (#36370160)

APOD is great. I'd love to hear an overview of the various ways it's published and their choices on how. The ways to publish "daily interesting stuff" have changed so many times in 28 years.

I read it in Feedly, using a third party RSS feed with larger images. https://acme.com/jef/apod/

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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by breput on Saturday June 17, 2023 @07:54PM (#36375965)

Just a FYI - there is an official RSS feed[0] now as well.

[0] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss

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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by NelsonMinar on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:30AM (#36390870)

Yes, with tiny thumbnail images; it's only good for forcing you to click into the site. Jef's feed has large images that display right in your feed reader.

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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by frob on Saturday June 17, 2023 @10:18AM (#36370356)

For a while, I had an Automator script that would set my desktop to the APoD even night. I need to go resurrect that. It was so much better than just accepting the default all the time.

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Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today by levysoft on Sunday June 18, 2023 @05:00AM (#36378489)

On Mac App Store you can find the free app Juu Background: it's very easy. https://apps.apple.com/it/app/juu-background/id1073241838

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