APOD Viewer is a small and very nice widget for displaying the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" from NASA's web page. Each day a new image is presented along with a description by a professional astronomer.
In addition to showing the current image "APOD Viewer" also lets you see the accompanying explanation by simply clicking the image. Furthermore it can be used to browse the archives and can show a random image.
APOD Viewer has a simple and compact user interface. It is resizable to fit any screen size and provides you with easy keyboard shortcuts for easy interaction with the widget. The image shown in the screenshot is courtesy of NASA.
Here are some key features of "APOD Viewer":
· Automatically updates
· Browse the APOD archive
· Clean, simple, and compact interface
· Customizable size
· Keyboard shortcuts
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· adds better support for movies,
· corrects a preference bug
· includes numerous other minor improvements and bugfixes.