Astronomy Picture of the Day · December 2000
APOD, December 2000
31 entries from December 2000: 31 images and 0 videos. 7 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 1, 2000 A Frosty Crater On Mars
Credit: Malin Space Science Systems , MGS , JPL , NASA
December 2, 2000 SN 1006: Pieces of the Cosmic Ray Puzzle
Credit: E. Gotthelf ( Columbia University ), ASCA Project, NASA
December 3, 2000 Earth's North Magnetic Pole
Credit: NOAA
December 4, 2000 The Circinus Galaxy
Credit: Andrew S. Wilson ( U. Maryland ) et al., WFPC2 , HST , NASA
December 5, 2000 Layered Mars: An Ancient Water World?
Credit: Malin Space Science Systems , MGS , JPL , NASA
December 6, 2000 Reflecting Merope
Credit: George H. Herbig & Theodore Simon ( IfA, U. Hawaii ), Hubble Heritage Team , NASA
December 7, 2000 Earth's San Andreas Fault
Credit: SRTM , JPL , NASA
December 8, 2000 Abell 1795: A Galaxy Cluster's Cooling Flow
Credit: A. Fabian ( IoA Cambridge ) et al., NASA
December 9, 2000 Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation
Credit: Apollo 17 , NASA (Image scanned by Kipp Teague)
December 10, 2000 · Copyrighted Too Close to a Black Hole
Credit & Copyright: Robert Nemiroff ( MTU )
December 11, 2000 · Copyrighted Composing the Omega Nebula
Credit & Copyright: K. M. Merrill , 2.1-m Telescope , SQIID , KPNO , AURA , NOAO , NSF
December 12, 2000 Jupiter Eyes Ganymede
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , Cassini Project , NASA
December 13, 2000 Manicouagan Impact Crater on Earth
Credit: STS-9 Crew , NASA
December 14, 2000 · Copyrighted International Space Station Trail
Credit & Copyright: Doug Murray
December 15, 2000 IC443's Neutron Star
Credit: C. Olbert , C. Clearfield , N. Williams , J. Keohane ( NCSSM ), NASA
December 16, 2000 Degas Ray Crater on Mercury
Credit: Mariner 10 Project , NASA
December 17, 2000 M2-9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula
Credit: B. Balick ( U. Washington ) et al., WFPC2 , HST , NASA
December 18, 2000 Oceans Under Jupiter's Moon Ganymede?
Credit: DLR , Brown U. , Galileo Project , JPL , NASA
December 19, 2000 A Close-Up of Aurora on Jupiter
Credit: John T. Clarke ( U. Michigan ), ESA , NASA
December 20, 2000 Sgr A*: Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center
Credit: A. Eckart ( U. Koeln ) & R. Genzel ( MPE-Garching ), SHARP I , NTT , La Silla Obs. , ESO
December 21, 2000 · Copyrighted Solstice And Season's Eclipse
Credit and Copyright: Sebastien Gauthier
December 22, 2000 Simulated Supergiant Star
Credit: B. Freytag , ( Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics , Univ. Uppsala)
December 23, 2000 Summer at the South Pole
Credit: Galileo Project , NASA
December 24, 2000 NGC 1850: Gas Clouds and Star Clusters
Credit: FORS Team , 8.2-meter VLT Antu , ESO
December 25, 2000 · Copyrighted The Eclipse Tree
Credit & Copyright: E. Israel
December 26, 2000 Jupiter, Io, and Shadow
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , Cassini Project , NASA
December 27, 2000 · Copyrighted The Dust and Ion Tales of Comet Hale-Bopp
Credit & Copyright: John Gleason (Celestial Images)
December 28, 2000 · Copyrighted Moon Mare and Montes
Credit & Copyright: Peter Armstrong
December 29, 2000 The Dark Horsehead Nebula
Credit: Arne Henden ( US Naval Observatory, Flagstaff ) Image Processed by Al Kelly
December 30, 2000 A Year of Resolving Backgrounds
Credit: The MAXIMA Collaboration , NSF
December 31, 2000 The Millennium that Defined Earth
Credit: Apollo 8 Crew, NASAThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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