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APOD: 2026 October 1 – Harvest Moon with Erupting Mount Etna

APOD: 2026 October 2 – The Complete Sharpless Catalog: 313 Nebulas

APOD: 2026 October 3 – Selfie at Vera Rubin Ridge

APOD: 2026 October 4 – Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey

APOD: 2026 October 5 – M104: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Tidal Streams

APOD: 2026 October 6 – A Complete Auroral Oval from SMILE

APOD: 2026 October 7 – Supernova Remnant Pa 30

APOD: 2026 October 8 – The Saturn System Smörgåsbord

APOD: 2026 October 9 – Stickney Crater

APOD: 2026 October 10 – Lunar Farside

APOD: 2026 October 11 – Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos

APOD: 2026 October 12 – Jupiter and the Moons

APOD: 2026 October 13 – Desert Stairway to Heaven

APOD: 2026 October 14 – Mars and the Beehive Under an Aurora

APOD: 2026 October 15 – The Milky Way over Manhattan

APOD: 2026 October 16 – Chasing the International Space Station

APOD: 2026 October 17 – 3D 67P

APOD: 2026 October 18 – Sonified: Eagle Nebula Pillars

APOD: 2026 October 19 – Treble Clef: Unusual X-ray Hot Radio Source

APOD: 2026 October 20 – An Anticrepuscular Rainbow Fan