That’s very true. I’ve also had people report the star Sirius (which is also very bright and unfamiliar to a lot of people) as a UFO as well.
One thing that makes people think these things are a UFO is something called autokinesis. If you stare at a fixed point of light, movements of your eyes will make it appear that the object is moving erratically.
Someday I’ll start that “Ask the UFO investigator” thread . . .
Glad I shared and you enjoyed it. That site is set as my browser homepage. Most of the gorgeous images they put up are astronomical (no terrestrial scenery included). I get my wallpaper from there more often than not.
y’can’t threaten me !
How about today, I’d be interested in reading it!
Is there any way to subscribe to APOD? I’d love to get an email every day with an APOD.
Time’s a-wasting. Get after it!
You don’t have to. It’s a public website. Just bookmark it and visit it whenever you feel like it. It’s got an archive of great pix from years back. And the links under the pictures are very informative. One can spend hours there linking and linking and reading.
Here’s an APOD screensaver for OS X: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27468
As CC said, it’s a public website. I have it set as my browser homepage. Other than that, you’ll have to bookmark and visit daily (or what ever frequency you prefer).
There are many other kinds of sites that people set as homepages, but I find that using APOD is lots more fun (my definition; yours may well differ) than using all the other kinds of sites that practically beg you to let them be your homepage. I don’t find all of APOD’s images to be equally interesting; some are photos of this or that satellite prior to launching, or of different telescopes. I like the ones that are images of some astronomical object best of all - especially galaxies and nebulae. They’re always interesting, and usually beautiful. What better way to start my browsing day? 
Crimeny, people! It’s obviously Santa! (Or it could be Jesus, depending on how fundie you are. Better to put your money on Santa, if you’re wrong, Jesus will forgive you.)
I know this is going to sound crazy, but…
Or my all-time favorite:
[SCULLY]This never happened. We were never here. You tell anyone else about this, you’re a dead man.[/SCULLY]
They do have an RSS feed. If you insist on email, I think there are free services that deliver RSS posts via email.
Personally, I have it in a Firefox bookmark folder with a number of other sites that I check at startup. I just middle-click on the folder, which is the same as clicking on “open all in tabs” at the bottom of every folder.
Venus shows phases, (like the moon, and Mercury) and doesn’t always appear round. This is one of the things that makes it the most misidentified object in the sky.
Venus can be weird. It changes shape, and sometimes moves the “wrong” direction, so it shows up when you’re least expecting it, drinks all your beer, never buys a round itself, and doesn’t invite you over to reciprocate. (Venus is a party crashing mooch. And a glory hound. Always has to be the center of attention.)
If you set up iGoogle as your home page, you can get the NASA picture of the day, which is APOD each time you launch your browser.