The plugin lets you embed beautiful astronomy images with it's respective description to your website or blog. This plugin uses the NASA's API to retrive th data of the Astronomy Picture of the day and it stores the data as posts as a custom post type. New images are added once a day when a request is fired to retrive the latest astronomy picture.
You can display the images using the Astronomy Daily widget from Appearance -> Widgets or use the [astro] shortcode such as:
[astro title="Astronomy Picture of the Day" count="1" size="post-thumbnail"]
The shortcode has three arguments:
- title (title of the widget)
- count (how many images to be displayed)
- size (the native WordPress image size you want to use for displaying the images).