{"id":811190,"date":"2026-10-23T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811190\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:58:08","slug":"apod-2026-october-23-andromeda-in-southern-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811190\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 October 23 \u2013 Andromeda in Southern Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2022-january-18-from-orion-to-the-southern-cross\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Looking toward<\/a> the north from Mullion, New South Wales, Australia, the Andromeda Galaxy never gets more than a few degrees above the horizon. During the southern hemisphere spring, Andromeda is highest in the sky around midnight though. And in this telephoto scene from October 10\/11, multiple exposures were used to reveal the spiral galaxy in tantalizing detail as it climbed above rolling Australian hills. <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/apod\/?date=220119\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Also known as M31<\/a>, the Andromeda Galaxy is one of the brightest objects in the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/science\/explore-the-night-sky\/hubble-messier-catalog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Messier catalog<\/a>, but is only visible to the unaided eye as a small, faint, fuzzy patch. Digitally tracked and stacked frames <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/content\/dam\/science\/cds\/apod\/apod\/2026\/october\/APOD_M31_planning_info.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were combined<\/a> with a foreground shot in the deep astro-image composite to reveal the galaxy&#8217;s greater extent in planet Earth&#8217;s night. In the springtime night skyscape,the closest large spiral galaxy <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/apod\/?date=200925\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spans nearly 6 full moons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: pixels in space<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: Looking toward the north from Mullion, New South Wales, Australia, the Andromeda Galaxy never gets more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[238382,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-811190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}