Astronomy Picture of the Day · August 2001
APOD, August 2001
31 entries from August 2001: 31 images and 0 videos. 7 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
August 1, 2001 Young Martian Terrain
Credit: MOC , MGS , USGS , NASA
August 2, 2001 Burning Tree Sprite
Credit: ISUAL Project , NCKU / NSPO , Taiwan
August 3, 2001 Warped Spiral Galaxy ESO 510-13
Credit: C. Conselice ( U. Wisconsin / STScI ) et al. , Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ), NASA
August 4, 2001 · Copyrighted Neighboring Galaxy: The Large Magellanic Cloud
Credit & Copyright: AURA / NOAO / NSF
August 5, 2001 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Credit: H. Bond ( STScI ), R. Ciardullo ( PSU ), WFPC2 , HST , NASA
August 6, 2001 The Orbiting Hubble Space Telscope
Credit: STS-103 , STScI , ESA , NASA
August 7, 2001 · Copyrighted A July Dawn
Credit & Copyright: Dominic Cantin
August 8, 2001 Farewell Jupiter
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , Cassini Project , NASA
August 9, 2001 · Copyrighted Tycho and Copernicus: Lunar Ray Craters
Credit & Copyright: Steve Mandel , Hidden Valley Observatory
August 10, 2001 · Copyrighted Perseids of Summer
Credit & Copyright: Rick Scott & Joe Orman
August 11, 2001 A Mystery In Gamma Rays
Credit: N. Gehrels, D. Macomb, D. Bertsch, D. Thompson, R. Hartman ( GSFC ), EGRET , NASA
August 12, 2001 Eagle EGGs in M16
Credit: J. Hester & P. Scowen ( ASU ), HST , NASA
August 13, 2001 A Piece of Interplanetary Dust
Credit: NASA
August 14, 2001 X-Rays from the Galactic Plane
Credit: Ken Ebisawa ( LHEA / GSFC ) et al., CXC , NASA
August 15, 2001 Mars: 3-D Dunes
Credit: MSSS , JPL , NASA
August 16, 2001 Centaurus A: X-Rays from an Active Galaxy
Credit: R.Kraft ( SAO ) et al., CXO , NASA
August 17, 2001 · Copyrighted The 47 Ursae Majoris System
Illustration Credit: Copyright 2001 Lynette Cook
August 18, 2001 Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars
Credit: Viking Project , JPL , NASA Image mosaic by Edwin V. Bell II ( NSSDC /Raytheon ITSS)
August 19, 2001 Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
Credit: Mariner 10 , NASA
August 20, 2001 · Copyrighted The Lagoon Nebula in Three Colors
Credit & Copyright: R. Barba , N. Morrell et al. ( UNLP ), CTIO , NOAO , NSF
August 21, 2001 Dark Spots on Neptune
Credit: Voyager 2 Team , NASA
August 22, 2001 The Bubbling Cauldron of NGC 3079
Credit: Gerald Cecil ( UNC/Chapel Hill ) et al., NASA
August 23, 2001 Distortion from a Distant Cluster
Credit: D. Wittman (Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs) et al., NOAO , AURA , NSF
August 24, 2001 NEAR at Eros: Before Touchdown
Credit: NEAR Project , JHUAPL , NASA Image Montage by Patrick Vantuyne
August 25, 2001 Pioneer 10: The First 7 Billion Miles
Illustration Credit: Donald Davis , Courtesy Pioneer Project , ARC , NASA
August 26, 2001 Uranus: The Tilted Planet
Credit: Voyager 2 Team , NASA
August 27, 2001 · Copyrighted Artificial Night Sky Brightness
Credit & Copyright: P. Cinzano et al., DMSP Satellites , RAS
August 28, 2001 Jagged Hills on Jupiter's Callisto
Credit: Galileo Project , Arizona State University , JPL , NASA
August 29, 2001 AFGL 2591: A Massive Star Acts Up
Credit: C. Aspin et al. , NIRI , Gemini Obs. , NSF
August 30, 2001 How Big Is 2001 KX76?
Credit: ESA , ESO , Astrovirtel , Gerhard Hahn (German Aerospace Center, DLR ), et al.
August 31, 2001 The Flight Of Helios
Photo Credit: Carla Thomas, courtesy DFRC , NASAThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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