Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD by The Trav

Displays the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) and allows you to review similar images of planets, stars, galaxies and nebulas

What is Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD by The Trav?

'Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD by The Trav' is a unique chrome extension that turns your New Tab into a daily showcase of astronomy images. It allows users to view Today's APOD or a Random APOD, toggle through history of viewed images, and even save your favorite APOD's for future viewing. The extension offers a menu bar with options for picture settings, and utilizes keyboard shortcuts for easy navigation. It is fast loading and maintains some use of the original tab screen by displaying your top sites.

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By: travis.lawrence12

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.79 (19)

Version: 4.1.4 (Last updated: 2023-03-31)

Creation date: 2020-04-09

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Overrides new tab: Yes

Permissions:

topSites
storage

Host permissions:

https://api.nasa.gov/*

Size: 2.26M

Email: tr*****@gmail.com

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# 24927 ▼ 103

Other rankings

#193 in Just for Fun ▲ 1 #79 in picture keyword 48 ▼ 9 #268 in toggle keyword 24 ▼ 4

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD by The Trav (v3.2.1)

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Extension summary

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Your New Tab page will now be the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)!

Your top sites are shown in the top left of the page to maintain some usefulness from the default new tab screen.

Set your APOD to show you Today's APOD a set number of times before switching to a Random APOD. Use the menu bar options to set the number of times each day you want to see the most current APOD before it starts showing Random APOD's. Each day this setting will update!

APOD by The Trav has the following features:

The fastest loading APOD extension available.
Use the options in the Chrome menu bar to set "Today" or a "Random" APOD on new tab.
Save your favorite APOD's for viewing again with the "Save Favorites" button at the bottom right.
Toggle through the history of viewed images with the Left and Right arrow keys.

Navigation shortcuts:

Random APOD - 'r'
Today's APOD - 't'

User reviews

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Pros

Beautiful backgrounds
Useful features
Favorites feature
Access to HD images and NASA's descriptive text

Cons

Recent issue with the 'Today' button
Permissions issue after an update

Most mentioned

Favorites feature
Beautiful backgrounds
Access to HD images and NASA's descriptive text
Good new tab extension
Issue with 'Today' button

Recent reviews

Amazing Extension. Please just add Sun & Moon Time feature, that would be soooo helpful

Mrunmay Mhatre, 2024-04-16

This extension is fantastic. I can't express how much this has improved my browsing experience.

Rob Bittner, 2023-09-29

The best new chrome tab extension ever! Have loved this extension for a few years and have installed it on my different chrome profiles. Love ALL the features provided, with me using the favourites one the most to come back to the favs pics. One suggestion/feedback: I would love it if you could significantly increase the amount of pics u can save. I have already hit the max at 57! If that's not possible, at least give me some neat ability to download all the images in a zip file with each image named with the caption and the date? (A simple text file that keeps record of all the data, mainly the image's caption and it's date, would be appreciated too). Otherwise, awesome job! Thank you for this. Love it :)