Astronomy Picture of the Day · April 2002
APOD, April 2002
30 entries from April 2002: 30 images and 0 videos. 14 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
April 1, 2002 Hubble Resolves Expiration Date For Green Cheese Moon
Credit: Ranger 9 Spacecraft , NASA
April 2, 2002 · Copyrighted Mysterious Black Water in Florida Bay
Credit & Copyright: ORBIMAGE , SeaWiFS , NASA
April 3, 2002 NGC 4414: A Flocculent Spiral Galaxy
Credit: Olivier Vallejo ( Observatoire de Bordeaux ), HST , ESA , NASA
April 4, 2002 · Copyrighted Ikeya-Zhang: Comet Over Colorado
Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake ( Colorado Mountain College )
April 5, 2002 Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow: Supernova Connection
Credit: HST Image: D.W. Fox, J.S. Bloom, S.R. Kulkarni ( Caltech ), et al. XMM Result: J.N. Reeves, D. Watson, J.P. Osborne ( University of Leicester ), et al.
April 6, 2002 Vintage Gamma Rays
Credit: ESA / IAS / CEA-SACLAY
April 7, 2002 NGC 2392 from Hubble
Credit: Andrew Fruchter ( STScI ) et al., WFPC2 , HST , NASA
April 8, 2002 NGC 2787: A Barred Lenticular Galaxy
Credit: Marcella Carollo ( ETHZ ), Hubble Heritage , NASA
April 9, 2002 · Copyrighted The Snake Nebula from CFHT
Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight , CFHT
April 10, 2002 · Copyrighted Unusual Rocks in Death Valley
Credit & Copyright: Joe Orman
April 11, 2002 Antennae Galaxies in Near-Infrared
Credit: Bernhard Brandl and the WIRC team ( Cornell ), Palomar Observatory
April 12, 2002 · Copyrighted A Galaxy is not a Comet
Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado
April 13, 2002 Pwyll: Icy Crater of Europa
Credit: PIRL , Galileo Project , NASA
April 14, 2002 RX J185635-375: Candidate Quark Star
M. van Kerkwijk ( Institute of Astronomy, Utrecht ), S. Kulkarni ( Caltech ), VLT Kueyen, ESO
April 15, 2002 A New Truss for the International Space Station
Credit: STS-110 Shuttle Crew , NASA
April 16, 2002 Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Credit & Copyight: Loke Kun Tan ( StarryScapes )
April 17, 2002 · Copyrighted The Glory
Credit & Copyright: James B. Kaler ( UIUC ), Skylights
April 18, 2002 · Copyrighted Planets in the West
Credit & Copyright: John French ( Abrams Planetarium , MSU )
April 19, 2002 · Copyrighted The Old Moon in the New Moon's Arms
Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder
April 20, 2002 Orion Nebula: The 2MASS View
Credit: 2MASS Collaboration , U. Mass. , IPAC Mosaic by E. Kopan
April 21, 2002 The Center of Centaurus A
Credit: E.J. Schreier ( STScI ) et al., HST , NASA
April 22, 2002 · Copyrighted Comet and Aurora Over Alaska
Credit & Copyright: Dennis Mammana ( Skyscapes )
April 23, 2002 The Newly Expanded International Space Station
Credit: STS-110 Shuttle Crew , NASA
April 24, 2002 · Copyrighted The Trifid Nebula from AAO
Credit & Copyright: Anglo-Australian Observatory , Photograph by David Malin
April 25, 2002 · Copyrighted Southern Cross in Mauna Loa Skies
Credit & Copyright Barney Magrath
April 26, 2002 · Copyrighted Comet Ikeya-Zhang Meets The ISS
Credit & Copyright Carol Lakomiak
April 27, 2002 Hawaii
Credit STS-26 Crew , NASA
April 28, 2002 Doomed Star Eta Carinae
Credit: J. Morse ( U. Colorado ), K. Davidson ( U. Minnesota ) et al., WFPC2 , HST , NASA
April 29, 2002 · Copyrighted Dusk of the Planets
Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss
April 30, 2002 · Copyrighted The Holographic Principle
Image Credit & Copyright: E. Winfree , K. Fleischer, A. Barr et al. ( Caltech )Thumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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