Astronomy Picture of the Day · December 2004
APOD, December 2004
30 entries from December 2004: 30 images and 0 videos. 11 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 1, 2004 Saturn's Moon Dione from Cassini
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
December 2, 2004 Mimas, Rings, and Shadows
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
December 3, 2004 I Zwicky 18: Young Galaxy
Credit: Y. Izotov ( Main Astronomical Obs. , Ukraine), T. Thuan ( Univ. Virginia ), ESA , NASA
December 4, 2004 Reflecting Merope
Credit: George H. Herbig & Theodore Simon ( IfA, U. Hawaii ), Hubble Heritage Team , NASA
December 5, 2004 · Copyrighted Kemble's Cascade
Credit and Copyright: Walter MacDonald
December 6, 2004 · Copyrighted Filaments Across the Sun
Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol (sungazer.net)
December 7, 2004 · Copyrighted A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia
Credit & Copyright: Wayne Pryde
December 8, 2004 · Copyrighted In the Center of the Heart Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope , J.-C. Cuillandre ( CFHT )
December 9, 2004 · Copyrighted Jupiter and the Moon's Shadowed Horizon
Image Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake ( Colorado Mountain College )
December 10, 2004 Debris Disks Surround Distant Suns
Illustration Credit: T. Pyle ( SSC ), JPL-Caltech , NASA ; Inset: HST images
December 11, 2004 M87's Energetic Jet
Credit: X-ray: H. Marshall (MIT), et al., CXC , NASA Radio: F. Zhou, F. Owen ( NRAO ), J. Biretta ( STScI) Optical: E. Perlman ( UMBC ), et al., STScI, NASA
December 12, 2004 Atlantis to Orbit
Credit: NASA
December 13, 2004 Announcing Comet Machholz
Credit: Adam Block ( NOAO ), AURA , NSF
December 14, 2004 · Copyrighted Nearby Spiral M33
Credit and Copyright: Richard Hammar
December 15, 2004 Looking Back Over Mars
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA
December 16, 2004 The Arms of NGC 7424
Credit: VIMOS / VLT , European Southern Observatory
December 17, 2004 Prometheus and the Rings of Saturn
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
December 18, 2004 Europa: Ice Line
Credit: PIRL (Univ. of Arizona), Planetary Geosciences Group (Brown Univ.), Galileo Project , NASA
December 19, 2004 Molecular Cloud Barnard 68
Credit: FORS Team , 8.2-meter VLT Antu , ESO
December 20, 2004 · Copyrighted Titan Surmised
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Craig Attebery , ESA , NASA
December 21, 2004 · Copyrighted Titan Disguised
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Mark Garlick ( Space-art )
December 22, 2004 · Copyrighted Comet, Meteor, Nebula, Star
Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics)
December 23, 2004 3C58: Pulsar Power
Credit: P. Slane ( Harvard-Smithsonian CfA ) et al. , CXC , NASA
December 24, 2004 Swift RocketCam
Credit: Dan Maas ( Maas Digital ), Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation , NASA
December 25, 2004 Big Beautiful Saturn
Composition Credit: Mattias Malmer , Image Data: Cassini Imaging Team
December 26, 2004 GRO J1655-40: Evidence for a Spinning Black Hole
Drawing Credit: A. Hobart, CXC
December 27, 2004 · Copyrighted Andromeda's Core
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler
December 28, 2004 · Copyrighted Tentacles of the Tarantula Nebula
Credit & Copyright: WFI , MPG/ESO 2.2-m Telescope , La Silla , ESO
December 30, 2004 M81 and M82: GALEX Full Field
Credit: GALEX Team , Caltech , NASA
December 31, 2004 A Year of Mars Roving
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASAThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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