PASAR API

🌐 NASA APOD ~ astronomy picture of the day

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NASA's daily space photo with a scientist-written explanation. The public DEMO_KEY works (~30 requests/hour per IP); a personal key is free and instant on api.nasa.gov. Global, works for MY.

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Call it

curl 'https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY'

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API: NASA APOD ~ astronomy picture of the day
Provider: NASA
Endpoint: GET https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY
It returns JSON.

Source: NASA (https://api.nasa.gov/)
Source type: Curated source
Endpoint type: Provider API base URL
Integration difficulty: Copy-paste ready
Last checked: 2026-07-03
Production caveat: Still handle empty rows, schema changes, pagination, stale coverage, and temporary upstream failures.

Help me fetch this and build a simple page that displays it nicely. Include basic production safeguards for errors, empty responses, schema changes, caching, and rate limits.

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