Starship Asterisk*

I didn't say the scenery pictures are bad. I agree that most of them are beautiful. I was just remarking that whereas before, there seemed to be an even mix of scenery and scientific images, now the posts now seem disproportionately dominated by scenery images. And yes, in the archive, which I've do...

Can anyone explain why the APOD website features so few actual astronomical images (as in, taken by a research telescope) these days? There's a lot of moon photography, scenic pictures of conjunctions, montages, space shuttle nostalgia... Would it be possible to get back to actual images taken by th...