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Space and astronomy · by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell, hosted by NASA

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)

A daily astronomy image or video with a short explanation by a professional astronomer, with a full archive back to 1995 and a JSON API.

Three decades of the sky in one archive: every day a new image, each with a short story and links that send you down a rabbit hole.

API, no keyCommercial: conditions

Open science.nasa.gov/apod ↗ agent.md

For your project

Official API
Official API · Free api.nasa.gov defaults: 1,000 requests per hour per key; DEMO_KEY 30 requests per IP per hour and 50 per IP per day
Key
Not needed
Formats
JSON, RSS
Data download
No bulk download found
License
mixed: NASA images public domain; other images copyrighted by the credited owner each image follows its own credit line; NASA-made images are public domain
Commercial use
Commercial use with conditions
“Some of the images are copyrighted and to use these pictures publicly or commercially one must write to the owners for permission.” science.nasa.gov/apod/apod-about/
Credit
Not stated
Embedding
Embedding unclear
Using the website
Free

Read on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)'s own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms · API docs. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

A request your code or agent can make with no key:

https://science.nasa.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/apod-basic/?per_page=5
  • Use the new endpoint https://science.nasa.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/apod-basic/ (WordPress REST: page/per_page pagination, works without a key); the legacy api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod goes offline on 1 Dec 2026. Read the 'copyright' field before reusing an image.
  • Always show the image credit/copyright from the entry; only NASA-made images are public domain
  • For copyrighted images, link to the APOD page instead of re-hosting, unless the owner grants permission
  • Migrate off https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod before 1 December 2026

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/apod/agent.md before using Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD).

What you can build

Space photo wallpapers from NASA's archiveAn app or bot that finds NASA mission photos on a theme (Apollo, Mars, the Moon) and makes phone or desktop wallpapers with the caption.
  • A daily space wallpaper or new-tab extension that shows today's APOD with its credit line
  • A searchable APOD archive browser by object or date
  • A chat bot that posts the daily APOD title, link and credit to a team channel

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