Do you happen to like at looking at the stars? Amazed at the beauty of the galaxies and craving to know more about the planets and astronomy in general and want to share this love with othes? Use the Astronomy Picture for a Day widget to supply your blog with photographs from the NASA’s APoD site. What you get is a small image (around 150 pixels in width) to put at the sidebar of your blog. Clicking on it will bring you to a page with the photograph in its full glory and a short description of it at the bottom. Not only is it pretty, it’s educational too. Learn more about the galaxies, stars, and space exploration – topics that were mentioned in passing in science courses.

Getting it can’t be simpler! Just download, extract the zip and install like any other widget. What I like about it is each part of the code is commented on, explaining what every section does. It’s perfect for those who want to learn how a piece of code turns into something practical. For those who know want to tweak it to their blogs, you can do it with the comments to guide you.

Where to download: digital meanderings.

Even if you’re not into astronomy, this widget lets you realize that there is more to the skies than the stars and the moon. This is actually his first widget, and any additional comments and suggestions are welcomed by the author. So if you think you can suggest any improvements do drop him a line, and let’s have this APoD widget useful for everyone.

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