NASA Random Image Generator

API Used:

• NASA (Astronomy Picture of the Day)

python nasa.py

Image generated (Click for full size):

Program will try to fetch the HD version of the image. If the JSON response does not contain an HD version of the image, it will fetch the standard version.

Python program assigns "title" field in the JSON response to the "Title" field in the EXIF data:

URL: https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=NASA_API_KEY&date=2023-11-10

{
  "date": "2023-11-10",
  "explanation": "Dominated by dark matter, massive cluster of galaxies Abell 2744 is known to some as Pandora's Cluster. It lies 3.5 billion light-years away toward the constellation Sculptor. Using the galaxy cluster's enormous mass as a gravitational lens to warp spacetime and magnify even more distant objects directly behind it, astronomers have found a background galaxy, UHZ1, at a remarkable redshift of Z=10.1. That puts UHZ1 far beyond Abell 2744, at a distance of 13.2 billion light-years, seen when our universe was about 3 percent of its current age. UHZ1 is identified in the insets of this composited image combining X-rays (purple hues) from the spacebased Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope. The X-ray emission from UHZ1 detected in the Chandra data is the telltale signature of a growing supermassive black hole at the center of the ultra high redshift galaxy.  That makes UHZ1's growing black hole the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays, a result that now hints at how and when the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed.",
  "hdurl": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2311/uhz1.jpg",
  "media_type": "image",
  "service_version": "v1",
  "title": "UHZ1: Distant Galaxy and Black Hole",
  "url": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2311/uhz1_1024.jpg"
}

EXIF Data in Image Properties:

.env Variables:

• NASA_API_KEY