🌌 NASA Astronomy Image Viewer A beautiful desktop application built with Python and Tkinter, using NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) API. It allows users to view daily space images, search by date, watch NASA videos, save favorites, and download images/videos locally.

🛰️ Features ✅ Fetch NASA’s APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) using official API ✅ Search by Date (view images from any date) ✅ Offline Placeholder (shows message when internet is unavailable) ✅ Favorites System — save your favorite NASA images ✅ Save Image/Video — download directly to your PC ✅ Previous / Next Navigation ✅ Video Support (open YouTube/Vimeo NASA videos) ✅ Clean & Responsive Tkinter UI

🧠 Technologies Used Component Description Python 3 Core programming language Tkinter GUI (Graphical User Interface) Requests For API and web data fetching Pillow (PIL) Image handling and display NASA APOD API Astronomy Picture of the Day API

📦 Installation 1️⃣ Clone the Repository bash Copy code git clone https://github.com/Dev-Vedu/NASA-Image-Viewer.git cd NASA-Image-Viewer 2️⃣ Install Dependencies bash Copy code pip install requests pillow 3️⃣ Get Your NASA API Key Go to 🔗 https://api.nasa.gov/ Generate your personal API key, then set it as an environment variable:

On Windows PowerShell: bash Copy code $env:NASA_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" 🚀 Run the Application bash Copy code python main.py 💾 Project Structure graphql Copy code NASA-Image-Viewer/ │ ├── api.py # Handles NASA API calls ├── main.py # Tkinter GUI + App logic ├── favorites.json # Stores user favorites ├── README.md # Documentation └── requirements.txt # Python dependencies 🌠 Screenshots Home Screen Search by Date Favorites (Add screenshots later when you capture them) (Show how it looks when searching by date) (Show favorites window)

💡 Future Improvements Add Dark Mode UI

Add Image Zoom and slideshow feature

Integrate with NASA Mars Rover Photos API

🧑‍🚀 Credits Developed by Harsha Gorda API Source: NASA Open APIs

📜 License This project is licensed under the MIT License — you are free to use, modify, and distribute.