Astronomy Picture of the Day · May 2001
APOD, May 2001
31 entries from May 2001: 31 images and 0 videos. 7 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
May 1, 2001 · Copyrighted Antarctica Hears Little Normal Matter in the Big Bang
Credit & Copyright: DASI , CARA , NSF
May 2, 2001 Planet Building in HD 100546
Credit: C. A. Grady et al. ( NOAO , NASA/GSFC ), CTIO , ESO , NSF
May 3, 2001 Far Side of the Sun
Credit: MDI-SOI , SOHO Consortium , ESA , NASA
May 4, 2001 Protoplanetary Survivors in Orion
Credit: J. Bally ( U. Colorado ), H. Throop ( SwRI ), C.R. O’Dell ( Vanderbilt U. ), NASA
May 5, 2001 Shepard Flies Freedom 7
Credit: Project Mercury , NASA
May 6, 2001 · Copyrighted The Pleiades Star Cluster
Credit & Copyright: David Malin ( AAO ), ROE , UKS Telescope
May 7, 2001 One Hundred-Kilometer Terrain on Venus
Credit: Magellan Spacecraft , USGS , NASA
May 8, 2001 GRO J1655-40: Evidence for a Spinning Black Hole
Drawing Credit: A. Hobart, CXC
May 9, 2001 Space Station Shows Off New Robot Arm
Credit: STS-100 Crew , NASA
May 10, 2001 · Copyrighted Spirals On Edge
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler
May 11, 2001 X-Ray Rainbows
Credit: J. McClintock et al. ( CfA ), CXC , NASA
May 12, 2001 · Copyrighted Shuttle Moon
Credit & Copyright: Anthony DeVito
May 13, 2001 Crater Copernicus
Credit: Apollo 17 Crew , NASA
May 14, 2001 · Copyrighted A Cerro Tololo Sky
Credit & Copyright: Roger Smith , AURA , NOAO , NSF
May 15, 2001 A Radar Image of Venus
Credit: D. Campbell ( Cornell ) et al., NAIC , NRAO , NASA , NSF
May 16, 2001 The Center of the Circinus Galaxy in X-Rays
Credit: F. Bauer ( Penn State ) et al., Chandra , NASA
May 17, 2001 Solar Neutrino Astronomy
Credit: M. Weber & P. Sturrock ( Stanford ), J. Scargle ( NASA / ARC ), SOHO / MDI , GALLEX / GNO
May 18, 2001 HD 82943: Planet Swallower
Credit G. Israelian and R. Rebolo ( IAC ), N. C. Santos and M. Mayor ( Geneva Obs. ), ESO Illustration Credit: Gabi Perez (IAC)
May 19, 2001 Damage to Apollo 13
Credit Apollo 13 Crew , NASA
May 20, 2001 Sagittarius Star Cloud
Credit: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA )
May 21, 2001 Another Comet LINEAR Breaks Up
Credit: E. Jehin et al., VLT YEPUN, ESO
May 22, 2001 Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232
Credit: FORS1 , 8.2-meter VLT Antu , ESO
May 23, 2001 Strange Orange Soil on the Moon
Credit: Apollo 17 Crew , NASA
May 24, 2001 X-Ray Stars of 47 Tucanae
Credit: X-Ray: J. Grindlay ( CfA ) et al., CXO , NASA Optical: W. Keel ( U. Alabama Tuscaloosa ) et al., 1.5-m Telescope , CTIO
May 25, 2001 Saturn The Giant
Credit: NASA
May 26, 2001 NGC 6826: The Blinking Eye
Credit: B. Balick , J. Alexander ( University of Washington ), et al., NASA
May 27, 2001 Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass
Credit: A. Dimai ( Col Druscie Obs. ), AAC
May 28, 2001 Close-up of the Face on Mars
Credit: Malin Space Science Systems , MGS , JPL , NASA
May 29, 2001 Working in Space
Credit: STS-103 Crew , NASA
May 30, 2001 · Copyrighted Stellar Spectral Types: OBAFGKM
Credit & Copyright: KPNO 0.9-m Telescope , AURA , NOAO , NSF
May 31, 2001 · Copyrighted LINEAR's Tail and Two Nuclei
Credit & Copyright: Gordon Garradd , Loomberah NSW AustraliaThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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