Astronomy Picture of the Day 2015

Astronomy Picture of the Day

 

2015.12.29

Dust of the Orion Nebula 
Image Credit & Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015.12.18

Herbig-Haro 24 
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) / Hubble-Europe Collaboration 
Acknowledgment: D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii)

 

 

 

 

2015.12.16

The Horsehead Nebula 
Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego

 

 

 

 

2015.12.04

Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent 
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder

2015.11.30

In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521 
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and S. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast); Acknowledgement: Robert Gendler

2015.11.23

A 212-Hour Exposure of Orion 
Image Credit & Copyright: Stanislav Volskiy, Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt

2015.10.22

Star Factory Messier 17 
Image Credit & Copyright: Data - ESO / MPIA / OAC, Assembly - R.Colombari

2015.10.13

The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396 
Image Credit & Copyright: J.C. Canonne, P. Bernhard, D. Chaplain & L. Bourgon

2015.10.11

In the Center of the Trifid Nebula 
Image Credit: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope, Martin Pugh; Processing: Robert Gendler

2015.10.03

A Blue Blood Moon 
Image Credit & Copyright: Dominique Dierick

2015.10.01

Eclipsed in Southern Skies 
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory)

2015.09.22

Milky Way over Bosque Alegre Station in Argentina 
Image Credit & Copyright: Sebastián D' Alessandro

2015.09.03

Milky Way with Airglow Australis 
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory)

2015.09.02

The Flare and the Galaxy 
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Mark

2015.08.30

M31: The Andromeda Galaxy 
Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler

2015.08.27

The Large Cloud of Magellan 
Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Fairbairn

2015.08.07

Full Moon, Full Earth 
Image Credit: NASA, NOAA/DSCOVR

2015.07.26

The Sombrero Galaxy from Hubble 
Image Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI /NASA)

2015.07.02

Venus and Jupiter are Close 
Composite Image Credit & Copyright: Wang, Letian

2015.04.24

Blue Tears and the Milky Way 
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)

2015.04.23

Meteor in the Milky Way 
Image Credit & Copyright: Marko Korosec

2015.03.17

The Big Dipper Enhanced 
Image Credit & Copyright: VegaStar Carpentier

2015.03.16

The Clouds of Orion the Hunter 
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo

2015.03.08

Stars at the Galactic Center 
Image Credit: Susan Stolovy (SSC/Caltech) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA

2015.02.25

The Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen 
Image Credit & Copyright: Arno Rottal (Far-Light-Photography)

2015.02.23

The Milky Way Over the Arizona Toadstools 
Image Credit & Copyright: David Lane & R. Gendler (3 insets)

2015.02.16

M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center 
Image Credit: NASA, ESO , NAOJ, Giovanni Paglioli; Assembling and processing: R. Colombari and R. Gendler

2015.02.05

M104: The Sombrero Galaxy 
Image Data: NASA, ESO , NAOJ, Giovanni Paglioli - Processing: R. Colombari

2015.01.26

The Milky Way over the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations 
Image Credit & Copyright: Sergei Makurin

2015.01.18

The Galactic Core in Infrared 
Credit: Hubble: NASA, ESA, & D. Q. Wang (U. Mass, Amherst); Spitzer: NASA, JPL, & S. Stolovy (SSC/Caltech)

2015.01.17

Comet Lovejoy's Tail 
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)

2015.01.08

Stars and Dust in Corona Australis 
Image Credit & Copyright: CHART32 Team, Processing - Johannes Schedler

2015.01.06

A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree 
Image Credit & Copyright: R. Colombari & Francesco Antonucci; Data: Subaru, ESO, & F. Antonucci