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🚀 NASA Space Intelligence — APOD & Near-Earth Asteroids with AI Discovery Scoring

Extract space data from NASA's public APIs — the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) and Near-Earth Asteroids (NeoWs) — as clean, structured data with an AI discovery score on every item. It's the fastest way to turn NASA's feeds into a ranked dataset: pull stunning daily astronomy images with full explanations, and track asteroids passing close to Earth with size, speed, miss distance and hazard flags — sorted so the most interesting objects sit at the top. Export to JSON/CSV/Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

🛰️ What is the NASA Space Intelligence Scraper?

It turns NASA's open data into a structured, ready-to-use dataset. Choose how many Astronomy Picture of the Day entries and Near-Earth Asteroids to fetch, optionally filter asteroids by hazard status or minimum diameter, and it returns each item with full details plus a 0–100 discovery score that ranks the most noteworthy content first — so educators, media outlets, researchers and space enthusiasts get publication-ready data without writing API calls. Results from both feeds are merged and sorted by discovery score.

What data does it extract?

• APOD: title, date, full explanation, media type (image/video), standard URL, HD image URL and copyright
• Asteroids: name, NASA JPL URL and potentially-hazardous flag
• Asteroid size: estimated diameter (min/max, km) and absolute magnitude
• Close approach: date, miss distance (AU / km / miles) and orbiting body
• Velocity: relative velocity in km/s and mph
• AI discovery score (0–100) ranking how noteworthy each item is

⬇️ Input

Choose how much of each feed to pull and how to filter asteroids — all optional:

Example input

{
"apiKey":"DEMO_KEY",
"apodCount":5,
"asteroidCount":10,
"hazardousOnly":false,
"minDiameter":0
}

⬆️ Output

Every item is one clean row (view as a table, or export JSON / CSV / Excel). APOD entry:

{
"data_type":"apod",
"title":"The Tarantula Nebula",
"date":"2026-06-26",
"explanation":"The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years across...",
"media_type":"image",
"url":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2606/tarantula_1024.jpg",
"hdurl":"https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2606/tarantula_4000.jpg",
"copyright":"Space Telescope Science Institute",
"service_version":"v1",
"discovery_score":95
}

Near-Earth Asteroid:

{
"data_type":"asteroid",
"name":"(2024 MK)",
"nasa_jpl_url":"https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=12345",
"is_potentially_hazardous":true,
"estimated_diameter_km_min":0.12,
"estimated_diameter_km_max":0.27,
"close_approach_date":"2026-06-29",
"close_approach_date_full":"2026-Jun-29 11:42",
"relative_velocity_kps":"18.34",
"relative_velocity_mph":"41023.5",
"miss_distance_au":"0.0312",
"miss_distance_km":"4668321.5",
"miss_distance_miles":"2900782.1",
"orbiting_body":"Earth",
"absolute_magnitude":21.3,
"discovery_score":88
}

💡 Use cases

• 🎓 Education & classrooms: pull the latest Astronomy Picture of the Day with full explanations for lessons, worksheets and slide decks — no NASA coding required.
• 📰 Media & social content: grab striking daily images and close-approach asteroid alerts (with hazard flags and miss distances) for newsletters, blogs and posts.
• 🔭 Research & analysis: export Near-Earth Asteroid data — size, velocity, miss distance and hazard status — to JSON/CSV for tracking and study.
• 🤖 App & dashboard data: schedule recurring runs to feed a space app, widget or dashboard with fresh, scored APOD and asteroid data.

🧮 How the discovery score works

A transparent 0–100 score tuned per data type. For APOD it weighs media type (video over image), recency, explanation length and HD availability. For asteroids it weighs hazard level (potentially hazardous = highest), size, how close the approach is and velocity. Both feeds are merged and sorted by this score, so the most noteworthy items appear first.

❓ FAQ

How do I get NASA space data? Set apodCount and asteroidCount for how many items you want, add optional asteroid filters, then Run. You get structured APOD and asteroid records, each with a discovery score, sorted best-first.

Do I need an API key? No key is required to try it — it defaults to NASA's DEMO_KEY. For higher rate limits, get a free key at api.nasa.gov (takes about five minutes) and paste it into apiKey.

What is APOD? The Astronomy Picture of the Day — NASA's daily featured image or video with a written explanation. Use apodCount to fetch several recent entries at once.

Can I get only dangerous asteroids? Yes — set hazardousOnly: true to keep only potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), and use minDiameter to filter by size.

Which asteroids does it return? Near-Earth Asteroids with a close approach in the upcoming window, including size, velocity, miss distance and orbiting body.

Can I skip one of the feeds? Yes — set apodCount or asteroidCount to 0 to skip that data type and fetch only the other.

Can I run it on a schedule or via API? Yes — schedule recurring runs in Apify, call it via the API/SDK, or connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n to push fresh space data into your stack automatically.

Is this legal to use? Yes — it reads NASA's official, publicly available open data APIs. Use it responsibly and follow NASA's API terms and applicable laws.

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Keywords: NASA scraper, NASA API, APOD, Astronomy Picture of the Day, Near-Earth asteroids, NeoWs, asteroid tracking, potentially hazardous asteroids, space data API, astronomy data, space education, planetary defense, close approach asteroids, space intelligence, NASA open data.