APOD - NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Transform your new tab with NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Explore HD space wallpapers, nebulae, galaxies, and cosmic history. Every new tab becomes NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day — a real photograph of the universe, with the story behind it. Since 1995, NASA has published one astronomy image every day, each written up by a professional astronomer. That's over 11,000 pictures: nebulae, galaxies, solar eclipses, aurorae, rovers, comets and deep field surveys. This extension puts them on the page you already open a hundred times a day. Your top sites stay in the top left, so the new tab keeps the usefulness of the default one. BROWSE THIRTY YEARS OF ARCHIVE * See today's picture, or open on a random one from the entire archive. * Show today's image a set number of times before switching to random — set the count in the options, and it resets each day. * Click the date in the title bar to jump to any day back to June 16, 1995. * Step through the archive a day at a time, forward or back. KEEP WHAT YOU LIKE * Save any image to Favorites and search back through them by title. * Every image you view is kept in a searchable history. * Move through images you have already seen with the Left and Right arrow keys. BUILT FOR THE KEYBOARD Navigation: * Random APOD — 'r' * Today's APOD — 't' * Previous day — 'j' * Next day — 'k' Panels: * Explanation — 'e' * Favorites — 'f' * History — 'h' * Close panel — 'esc' OPTIONS * Open on today's picture or a random one. * Force full-resolution images, or let the standard image load when the HD file is taking too long. * Show or hide your top sites. * Set how many times today's image appears before random ones take over. PERMISSIONS * topSites — draws your most-visited shortcuts in the top left. Toggle it off in the options and they are not shown. * storage — saves your settings, favorites and viewing history on your own machine. * favicon — draws the shortcut icons from Chrome's local favicon cache, so your browsing data never leaves your computer. * api.nasa.gov — the only site this extension talks to, to fetch the daily image. No analytics, no tracking, no account.