Astronomy Picture of the Day · February 1996
APOD, February 1996
29 entries from February 1996: 29 images and 0 videos. 5 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
February 1, 1996 · Copyrighted Lensing through Baade's Window
Credit: Photograph made from plates taken with the UK Schmidt Telescope. Color photography by David Malin. Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board
February 2, 1996 A MACHO View of Galactic Dark Matter
Credit: OGLE Event #1, B. Paczynski, A. Udalski and the OGLE Collaboration
February 3, 1996 A Huge Impact Crater on Mars
Credit: NASA, Viking, USGS
February 4, 1996 · Copyrighted The Closest Galaxy: The Sagittarius Dwarf
Credit and Copyright: A. Oksanen, 2.5 meter Nordic Optical Telescope
February 5, 1996 COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Credit: NASA, COBE, DMR, Four-Year Sky Map
February 6, 1996 COBE Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known
Credit: NASA, COBE, DMR, Four Year Sky Map
February 7, 1996 If You Could Stand on Mars
Credit: NASA, Viking 1, USGS
February 8, 1996 · Copyrighted Hyakutake: The Great Comet of 1996?
Photo Credit and Copyright: Gordon Garradd. Used with permission.
February 9, 1996 The Eye of an Hourglass Nebula
Credit: R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL), WFPC2 Science Team, NASA
February 10, 1996 The First Explorer
Credit: ABMA, JPL
February 11, 1996 Sputnik: The Traveling Companion
Credit: MSFC Historical Archives
February 12, 1996 Pluto Not Yet Explored
Credit: NASA, JPL, Michael W. Carroll
February 13, 1996 · Copyrighted 7,000 Stars And The Milky Way
Credit: Knut Lundmark, Copyright Lund Observatory, Used with permission.
February 14, 1996 NGC 2237: The Rosette Nebula
Credit: The Electronic Universe Project
February 15, 1996 NEAR to an Asteroid
Credit: NASA, JPL, Galileo Project
February 16, 1996 The Early Universe
Credit: F. Summers (Princeton), D. Cox, R. Patterson, E. Wesselak, and B. Sanders (NCSA), L. Carpenter (Pixar), GC3, Cosmic Voyage, Smithsonian
February 17, 1996 Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe
Credit: Mt. Wilson Archive, Carnegie Institution of Washington
February 18, 1996 · Copyrighted Abell 3627 in the Great Attractor
Credit: Digitized Sky Survey (ROE), SkyView Copyright: STScI, AAO, UK-PPARC, ROE
February 19, 1996 Periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle
Credit: D. McDavid (Limber Observatory), D.C. Boice (SwRI)
February 20, 1996 ASCA X-Ray Observatory
Credit: ISAS, NASA
February 21, 1996 Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Credit: P. Seitzer (U. Michigan)
February 22, 1996 Apollo 15's Home on the Moon
Credit: Apollo 15, NASA
February 23, 1996 Apollo 15: Driving on the Moon
Credit: Apollo 15, David Scott, NASA
February 24, 1996 Tanks for the Lift
Credit: NASA, STS-29 Crew, James P. Bagian.
February 25, 1996 A High Energy Fleet
Credit: NASA, MSFC Historical Archive.
February 26, 1996 Fireball!
Credit: Sirko Molau, IMO, Archenhold-Sternwarte
February 27, 1996 X-ray Moon and X-ray Star
Credit: ROSAT, MPE, NASA
February 28, 1996 Explosions Discovered Near Galactic Center
Drawing Credit: J. Schoemer (NASM)
February 29, 1996 Julius Caesar and Leap Days
Photo Credit: Rune RysstadThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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