The application creates an SMS with the latest picture of the day from the NASA APOD API using Python, Django, and Twilio. The goal is to send a response daily at 10 am local time. To achieve this, the application uses Celery as a task scheduler, Redis as a messaging broker, and Django-celery-beat for scheduling tasks. It retrieves data from the NASA APOD API, creates an SMS message using Twilio, and schedules the message to be sent daily at 10 am local time.