Submit an image to APOD

Images can be submitted to Astronomy Picture of the Day by email to the editors Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell. To submit an image, you can use this mailto link:

Please note that by submitting your image to APOD, you are consenting for your image to be used on APOD in all of its forms unless you explicitly state otherwise. These include mirror sites, foreign language mirror sites, new media mirror sites, yearly calendars, and APOD on social fan pages as listed on the About APOD page. Some of these, like Facebook, carry advertising. We do recommend that you include a small copyright notice in a corner of your submitted images. Thanks!

Ethics statement: APOD accepts composited or digitally manipulated images, but requires them to be identified as such and to have the techniques used described in a straightforward, honest and complete way.