# x402.forgemesh.io Daily Space Image

> x402.forgemesh.io Daily Space Image is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns today's featured astronomy image with its title, high-resolution URL, and a written astronomer explanation, refreshed daily.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/daily-space-image
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-forgemesh-io-daily-space-image-bdd27eda
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RAGXsT3jwlQxSABO0vKc1

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability x402-forgemesh-io-daily-space-image-bdd27eda -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull today's featured space image — give me the title, the high-res image URL, and the astronomer's explanation so I can drop it into tonight's newsletter.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a ready-to-use daily astronomy image with human-readable context (title + explanation) and do not want to manage image curation yourself. Ideal for newsletters, screensaver bots, daily content pipelines, or social posting agents that want fresh science content automatically. Prefer this over general image search APIs when the content must be authoritative, astronomy-specific, and refreshed on a daily cadence.

## Known failure modes

- Daily image not yet updated — may return previous day's content if called very early UTC
- Network or upstream data source unavailable — returns 5xx error
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance — request rejected before content is returned
- Empty or malformed response if upstream astronomy data feed is temporarily down

## How this service works

Today's featured space image — title, high-resolution image URL, and a full written explanation from an astronomer — refreshed daily. A drop-in content source for newsletters, screensaver bots, and daily-content agents that want a fresh astronomy image with context every day, no image curation required.

## Output

Returns the current day's featured astronomy image including: a title string, a high-resolution image URL, and a full written explanation authored by an astronomer. Content is refreshed daily with no parameters required.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "url": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2607/eagle.jpg",
   "title": "The Eagle Nebula",
   "explanation": "..."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-forgemesh-io-daily-space-image-bdd27eda/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)