Every day since June 16, 1995, NASA has published one Astronomy Picture of the Day. Pick any date — your birthday, an anniversary, today — and see what the universe looked like that day.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day archive — one image or video of our universe, every day since June 16, 1995, each with a short explanation written by a professional astronomer. Images remain © their creators / NASA as credited.
That's when the APOD archive began — there is no official picture of the day before it. (The universe was still there, just undocumented by NASA that day.)
Yes — some days APOD features a video (a rocket launch, a timelapse of the sky). Those play right on this page.
