Astronomy Picture of the Day · May 2006
APOD, May 2006
31 entries from May 2006: 30 images and 1 videos. 11 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
May 1, 2006 Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box
Credit: ESA & NASA ; Acknowledgement: E. Olszewski ( U. Arizona ) HST
May 2, 2006 · Copyrighted Sunspot 875 Flares
Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol (sungazer.net)
May 3, 2006 Saturn in Blue and Gold
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
May 4, 2006 Schwassmann-Wachmann 3: Fragment B
Credit: NASA , ESA , H. Weaver ( JHU / APL ), M. Mutchler and Z. Levay ( STScI )
May 5, 2006 Jupiter and the Red Spots
Credit: NASA , ESA , A. Simon-Miller ( Goddard Space Flight Center ), I. de Pater, M. Wong ( UC Berkeley )
May 6, 2006 Three Galaxies in Draco
Credit: Stefan Heutz , Wolfgang Ries, Cord Scholz
May 7, 2006 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Credit: H. Bond ( STScI ), R. Ciardullo ( PSU ), WFPC2 , HST , NASA
May 8, 2006 Descent Panorama of Saturn's Titan
Credit: ESA , NASA , Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer Team ( LPL )
May 9, 2006 Rock Slab Growing at Mt. St. Helens Volcano
Credit: Dan Dzurisin, Cascades Volcano Observatory , USGS
May 10, 2006 · Copyrighted The Large Cloud of Magellan
Credit & Copyright: Wei-Hao Wang ( IfA, U. Hawaii )
May 11, 2006 · Copyrighted Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part I
Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip and Steffen Bruckner
May 12, 2006 · Copyrighted Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part II
Credit & Copyright: Sheldon Faworski and Sean Walker ( MASIL Astro-Imaging Team)
May 13, 2006 Crumbling Comet
Credit: William Reach ( SSC /Caltech), et al. , JPL , Caltech , NASA
May 14, 2006 The Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes
Credit: Dave Finley , AUI , NRAO , NSF
May 15, 2006 Volcanic Bumpy Boulder on Mars
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , Cornell , JPL , NASA
May 16, 2006 The International Space Station from Above
Credit: STS-114 Crew , NASA
May 17, 2006 The Host Galaxies of Long-Duration GRBs
Credit: NASA , ESA , Andrew Fruchter ( STScI ), and the GOSH Collaboration
May 18, 2006 · Copyrighted Shell Game in the LMC
Credit & Copyright: John P. Gleason
May 19, 2006 · Copyrighted The Gum Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Axel Mellinger
May 20, 2006 · Copyrighted Elliptical Galaxy M87
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler
May 21, 2006 · Copyrighted An Intermediate Polar Binary System
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Mark Garlick ( Space-art )
May 22, 2006 Maneuvering in Space
Credit: STS-114 Crew , ISS Expedition 11 Crew, NASA
May 23, 2006 · Copyrighted Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 Passes the Earth
Credit & Copyright: Thad V’Soske ( Cosmotions.com )
May 24, 2006 A Five Quasar Gravitational Lens
Credit: K. Sharon ( Tel Aviv U. ) and E. Ofek ( Caltech ), ESA , NASA
May 25, 2006 · Copyrighted NGC 1579: Trifid of the North
Credit & Copyright: R. Jay GaBany ( Cosmotography.com )
May 26, 2006 · Copyrighted Omega Centauri
Credit & Copyright: Steve Crouch
May 27, 2006 Gamma-Ray Moon
Credit: Dave Thompson (NASA/ GSFC ) et al. , EGRET , Compton Observatory , NASA
May 28, 2006 GRO J1655-40: Evidence for a Spinning Black Hole
Drawing Credit: A. Hobart, CXCVideo May 29, 2006 · VideoThe NASA Television Channel
Credit: NASA TV , NASA
May 30, 2006 Ancient Craters on Saturn's Rhea
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
May 31, 2006 Simulated Gamma-ray Sky
Credit: GLAST DC2Thumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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