NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day taken by Czech photographer

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for Saturday is a photograph of comet Pons-Brooks taken by Petr Horálek from the Institute of Physics in Opava. The picture was taken on Tuesday near the Slovak town of Revúca. According to the Czech Astronomical Society, Horálek's image is the 65th photograph taken by a Czech to be chosen by NASA for their Astronomy Picture of the Day since it began in 1995.

According to the accompanying explanation to the image, comet Pons-Brooks is a periodic visitor to the inner Solar System and less than 14 light-minutes away.