🌌 Stardust - NASA Image Explorer

Stardust is a sleek, responsive, space-themed web application that connects directly to the NASA API to fetch and display the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). Built using modern frontend workflows, it allows users to explore breathtaking snapshots of our universe across different dates.

🚀 Features

• Live NASA Data: Fetches real-time imagery and detailed scientific descriptions directly from NASA's databases.
• Smart Media Handling: Seamlessly detects and displays standard images, direct video streams, and YouTube interactive iframes depending on the day's payload.
• Time Travel Explorer: Includes an interactive date picker allowing users to search historical APOD archives instantly.
• Immersive Dark Mode CSS: Custom UI themed with deep cosmic color palettes (#0f172a space slate), sleek borders, and crisp shadows optimized for rendering high-fidelity astral images.
• Fast Build Pipelines: Bundled and served utilizing Vite for lightning-fast hot module replacement (HMR) during development.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Runtime/Environment: Node.js
• Build Tool / Dev Server: Vite
• Frontend Technologies: Semantic HTML5, Custom CSS3 (Flexbox, variables, adaptive layouts), Vanilla JavaScript (ES6+, Async/Await, Fetch API)