Overview
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.
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Version
4.3.0
Updated
September 7, 2026
Offered by
travis.lawrence12
Size
2.09MiB
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travis.lawrence12@gmail.com
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