Astronomy Picture of the Day · August 2000
APOD, August 2000
31 entries from August 2000: 31 images and 0 videos. 12 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
August 1, 2000 X-Rays from Comet LINEAR
Credit: Carey Lisse ( STScI / UMD ) et al., CXC , SAO , NASA
August 2, 2000 At the Edge of the Crescent Nebula
Credit: Brian D. Moore ( ASU ) et al., WFPC2 , HST , NASA
August 3, 2000 22 Miles From Eros
Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA
August 4, 2000 M15: Dense Globular Star Cluster
Credit: H. Bond et al., Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ), NASA
August 5, 2000 · Copyrighted Halley's Nucleus: An Orbiting Iceberg
Credit: Halley Multicolor Camera Team , Giotto Project , ESA Copyright: MPAE
August 6, 2000 · Copyrighted The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
Credit & Copyright: O. Lopez-Cruz ( INAOEP ) et al., AURA , NOAO , NSF
August 7, 2000 · Copyrighted Nearby Star Episilon Eridani Has a Planet
Credit & Copyright: J. B. Kaler ( UIUC )
August 8, 2000 Comet LINEAR Disperses
Credit: H. Weaver ( JHU ) et al., WFPC2 , HST , NASA
August 9, 2000 A Solar Filament Lifts Off
Credit: TRACE , NASA
August 10, 2000 · Copyrighted Other Worlds and HD 38529
Illustration Credit: Copyright 2000 Lynette Cook
August 11, 2000 Fragments of Comet LINEAR
Credit: H. Weaver ( JHU ) et al., European Southern Observatory
August 12, 2000 · Copyrighted A Perseid Meteor
Credit & Copyright: S. Kohle & B. Koch ( Astron. I., U. Bonn )
August 13, 2000 Doomed Star Eta Carinae
Credit: J. Morse ( U. Colorado ), K. Davidson ( U. Minnesota ) et al., WFPC2 , HST , NASA
August 14, 2000 Kemble's Cascade
Credit: Walter MacDonald
August 15, 2000 · Copyrighted The Solar Spectrum
Credit & Copyright: Nigel Sharp ( NOAO ), FTS , NSO , KPNO , AURA , NSF
August 16, 2000 Unusual Giant Galaxy NGC 1316
Credit: FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO
August 17, 2000 · Copyrighted Mount Megantic Magnetic Storm
Credit & Copyright: Sebastien Gauthier ( Observatoire Astronomique du Mont-Megantic )
August 18, 2000 X-Rays From Antennae Galaxies
Credit: G. Fabbiano (CfA) et al., CXC , SAO , NASA
August 19, 2000 ROSAT Explores The X-Ray Sky
Credit: S. Digel and S. Snowden ( USRA / LHEA / GSFC ), ROSAT Project , MPE, NASA
August 20, 2000 The Surface of Titan
Credit: Athena Coustenis ( DESPA ) et al., PUEO , CFHT
August 21, 2000 · Copyrighted A Perseid Aurora
Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake ( Colorado Mountain College )
August 22, 2000 · Copyrighted NGC 2244: A Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula
Credit & Copyright: J. C. Cuillandre & G. Fahlman ( CFHT Staff ), CFHT
August 23, 2000 · Copyrighted NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler
August 24, 2000 Eros At Sunset
Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA
August 25, 2000 Folding Europa
Credit: L. M. Prockter ( JHU APL ), R. T. Pappalardo ( Brown University ), JPL , Galileo Project , NASA
August 26, 2000 Mir Dreams
Credit: STS-76 Crew , NASA
August 27, 2000 · Copyrighted Orion's Horsehead Nebula
Credit & Copyright: ( AAO ), AATB , ROE , UKS Telescope
August 28, 2000 · Copyrighted The Helix Nebula from CFHT
Credit & Copyright: J.-C. Cuillandre ( CFHT Staff ), CFH12K CCD Camera , CFHT
August 29, 2000 The Regolith of Asteroid Eros
Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA
August 30, 2000 The Brown Dwarfs of Orion's Trapezium
Credit: G. Schneider ( UofA ), K. L. Luhman ( CfA ), et al., NICMOS IDT , NASA WFPC2 data: C. O’Dell and S. Wong ( Rice )
August 31, 2000 Full Throttle For Deep Space 1
Credit: Deep Space 1 Project , JPL , NASAThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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