Telescope

The NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day in every new tab you open.

Telescope - NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

"Telescope" is a Chrome extension that transforms each new tab into an opportunity for astronomical exploration. Everyday, NASA uploads a new astronomy picture and Telescope delivers it right to your browser. Click on the image for a detailed explanation from a professional astronomer or enjoy the picture in isolation, details focused and everything else faded to black. Can't get the NASA image of the day? Telescope will display a random image from its bundle of high-resolution photos from NASA's library.
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Extension stats

By: fookay
Users: 815
-4
Rating: 4.33
(3)
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2016-02-01)
Creation date: 2016-01-31
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Overrides new tab: Yes
Size: 21.34M

Other platforms

Telescope (v1.13)
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Extension summary

Every day NASA uploads a new astronomy picture. Now, with Telescope, you can see it every time you open a new tab. You can click the title to visit NASA's website that contains an explanation of the picture as written by a professional astronomer. Clicking the picture fades everything else to black allowing you to focus in on all of the details.

If there's trouble downloading the picture, a randomly selected picture from the library of bundled images will be loaded instead. They're straight from NASA and high-resolution to boot.

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." - Plato

User reviews

hjk
by حيدر علي, 2024-05-27

Its pretty good.
by Deepanjali Mandlik, 2018-04-13

Pretty fun, not sure why its 20mb though.
by Travis, 2017-02-06
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Telescope requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Telescope has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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