Astronomy Picture of the Day · January 1996
APOD, January 1996
31 entries from January 1996: 31 images and 0 videos. 5 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
January 1, 1996 Shuttle Engine Blast
Credit: NASA, STS-51 Crew
January 2, 1996 The X-Ray Sky
Credit: NASA, HEAO-1, Boldt (GSFC) and Garmire (Cal Tech/PSU), Skyview, Allen, Jahoda, Whitlock
January 3, 1996 The X-ray Timing Explorer
Credit: NASA, MIT, UCSD
January 4, 1996 · Copyrighted Symbiotic Star System R Aquarii
Credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope photograph by David Malin Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board
January 5, 1996 · Copyrighted The Toby Jug Nebula
Credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope photograph by David Malin Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board
January 6, 1996 Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy M32
Credit: 1.1 Meter Hall Telescope, Lowell Observatory, Bill Keel (U. Alabama)
January 7, 1996 Mercury Astronauts and a Redstone
Credit: NASA
January 8, 1996 Local Group Galaxy NGC 205
Credit: 1.1 Meter Hall Telescope, Lowell Observatory, Bill Keel (U. Alabama)
January 9, 1996 M100 and the Expanding Universe
Credit: NASA, HST, W. Freedman (CIW), R. Kennicutt (U. Arizona), J. Mould (ANU)
January 10, 1996 The Cepheids of M100
Credit: NASA, HST, W. Freedman (CIW), R. Kennicutt (U. Arizona), J. Mould (ANU)
January 11, 1996 Lasers in Eta Carinae
Credit: NASA, J. Gitlin (StScI)
January 12, 1996 Mare Orientale
Credit: NASA, Lunar Orbiter 4
January 13, 1996 Lunokhod 1: Moon Robot
Credit: Soviet Lunar Program
January 14, 1996 A Distant Cluster of Galaxies
Credit: NASA, HST, A. Dressler (CIW)
January 15, 1996 The Dawn of the Clusters
Credit: NASA, HST, M. Dickinson (STScI)
January 16, 1996 · Copyrighted Wild Duck Open Cluster M11
Credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope photograph by David Malin Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board
January 17, 1996 NGC 7027: A Dying Star's Nebula
Credit: NASA, H. Bond (STScI)
January 18, 1996 MyCn18: An Hourglass Nebula
Credit: R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL), WFPC2 Science Team, NASA,
January 19, 1996 The Dusty Disk of Beta Pic
Credit: C. Burrows and J. Krist (STScI), WFPC2 IDT Team, NASA, ESA
January 20, 1996 Mercury's Caloris Basin
Credit: NASA, JPL, Mariner 10
January 21, 1996 · Copyrighted Mercury's Faults
Credit: NASA, JPL, Mariner 10, Copyright Calvin J. Hamilton (LANL)
January 22, 1996 Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
Credit: A. Dupree (CfA), R. Gilliland (STScI), NASA, ESA
January 23, 1996 Beneath Jupiter's Clouds
Credit: NASA, IRTF
January 24, 1996 The Deep Field
Credit: R. Williams, The HDF Team (STScI), NASA,
January 25, 1996 Catching Falling Stardust
Credit: ESA, NASA,
January 26, 1996 Quadrantids: Meteors in Perspective
Credit: Sirko Molau, IMO, Archenhold-Sternwarte
January 27, 1996 M8: An Open Cluster in the Lagoon
Credit: The Electronic Universe Project
January 28, 1996 Orbiting Repairmen
Credit: NASA, STS-61 Crew.
January 29, 1996 Searchlight Beams from the Egg Nebula
Credit: R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL), WFPC2 Science Team, NASA,
January 30, 1996 · Copyrighted 70 Virginis b: A New Water Planet?
Discovery Credit: G. Marcy (SFSU), and P. Butler (UC Berkeley) Photo Copyright: Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Anglo-Australian Observatory, and AURA
January 31, 1996 Planets Around Sun-Like Stars
E. Williams, G. Marcy, and L.-A. McConnaughey, (UC Berkeley), (SFSU)Thumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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