Telescope

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

What is Telescope?

"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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By: fookay

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Users: 860 ▲ 11

Rating: 4.33 (3)

Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2016-02-01)

Creation date: 2016-01-31

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Overrides new tab: Yes

Size: 21.34M

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# 33321 ▼ 3

Other rankings

#3314 in Just for Fun ▼ 3

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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