NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day page for 2026 September 11 lists M83, called the Southern Pinwheel, as that day's featured image. The APOD entry appears in the site's public archive on science.nasa.gov and carries the date 2026 September 11, establishing a fixed reference for the image and its accompanying material.
The APOD site supports navigation through an archive index, calendar and search functions, all of which can be used to locate the M83 entry. The page interface also shows links or sections labelled RSS, Education, About and Discuss, signalling the formats and site areas available to visitors who want to follow the post or place it in an educational or conversational context.
This listing places the M83 image into APOD's continuous daily series, where each dated post is preserved in the archive for later reference. The entry as posted on science.nasa.gov joins the site's ongoing sequence of astronomy images and related text for that date. For anyone tracking APOD entries, the site's RSS feed is available as a means to receive updates, and the archive calendar offers a way to move between specific dates.
The draft announcing this APOD entry was marked "Awaiting rewrite" in the material provided, and the posting is attributed to the science.nasa.gov APOD page. Readers who want to view the M83 image and its page can find it through APOD's archive tools on the NASA science website, or follow the site's RSS feed and calendar to locate adjacent entries and past posts.
