Astronomy Picture of the Day · August 2008
APOD, August 2008
31 entries from August 2008: 31 images and 0 videos. 20 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
August 1, 2008 · Copyrighted Moon Games
Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder ( PixHeaven.net / TWAN )
August 2, 2008 · Copyrighted Eclipse Shirt
Credit & Copyright: Philippe Haake
August 3, 2008 Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box
Credit: ESA & NASA ; Acknowledgement: E. Olszewski ( U. Arizona )
August 4, 2008 X-Rays from the Cat's Eye Nebula
Credit: X-ray: NASA / CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI
August 5, 2008 · Copyrighted A Total Solar Eclipse Over China
Credit & Copyright: Bill Buckingham
August 6, 2008 NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster
Credit: Diedre Hunter ( Lowell Obs. ) et al., HST , NASA
August 7, 2008 · Copyrighted At the Sun's Edge
Credit & Copyright: Catalin Beldea (Descopera Magazine)
August 8, 2008 · Copyrighted The Crown of the Sun
Credit & Copyright: Hartwig Luethen
August 9, 2008 · Copyrighted Aurora Persei
Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake ( Colorado Mountain College )
August 10, 2008 · Copyrighted The Eagle Rises
Credit: Apollo 11, NASA – Stereo Image Copyright : John Kaufmann ( ALSJ )
August 11, 2008 Black Hole Candidate Cygnus X-1
Credit: ESA , Hubble
August 12, 2008 A Mars Panorama from the Phoenix Lander
Credit: Phoenix Mission Team , NASA , JPL-Caltech , U. Arizona
August 13, 2008 · Copyrighted NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas
August 14, 2008 · Copyrighted Perseid Trail
Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka ( Astropics.com / TWAN )
August 15, 2008 · Copyrighted Facing NGC 6946
Credit & Copyright: Volker Wendel ( Spiegelteam )
August 16, 2008 · Copyrighted Perseid over Vancouver
Credit & Copyright: Yuichi Takasaka ( www.blue-moon.ca / TWAN )
August 17, 2008 Io's Surface: Under Construction
Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA
August 18, 2008 · Copyrighted Baily's Beads near Solar Eclipse Totality
Credit & Copyright: Leonid Durman
August 19, 2008 · Copyrighted NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Adam Block , Mount Lemmon SkyCenter , Univ. Arizona
August 20, 2008 · Copyrighted Earth's Shadow
Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis ( TWAN )
August 21, 2008 · Copyrighted August Moons
Credit & Copyright: Dennis Mammana (left), Laurent Laveder , TWAN
August 22, 2008 Active Galaxy NGC 1275
Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ); A. Fabian ( IoA, Cambridge U. ), L. Frattare (STScI), CXC , G. Taylor, NRAO,VLA
August 23, 2008 The Matter of the Bullet Cluster
Composite Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/ M.Markevitch et al.; Lensing Map: NASA/STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan/U.Arizona/ D.Clowe et al. Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.
August 24, 2008 Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232
Credit: FORS1 , 8.2-meter VLT Antu , ESO
August 25, 2008 · Copyrighted NGC 7008: The Fetus Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager , Don Goldman , Paul Mortfield
August 26, 2008 · Copyrighted 47 Tuc: A Great Globular Cluster of Stars
Credit & Copyright: Thomas V. Davis ( tvdavisastropix.com )
August 27, 2008 · Copyrighted IC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford ( Rancho Del Sol Observatory )
August 28, 2008 Fermi's First Light
Credit: NASA , DOE , International LAT Team
August 29, 2008 Generations of Stars in W5
Credit Lori Allen, Xavier Koenig ( Harvard-Smithsonian CfA ) et al. , JPL-Caltech , NASA
August 30, 2008 · Copyrighted The View from Everest
Credit & Copyright: Roddy Mackenzie
August 31, 2008 · Copyrighted Eclipse over the Great Wall
Credit & Copyright: Mike Simmons ( Astronomers Without Borders , TWAN )Thumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
Advertisement
All of 2008 → · All years and topics →
Advertisement
Source
- Astronomy Picture of the Day — NASA Science, science.nasa.gov/apod/archive
The images and explanations belong to their creators. OpenOrbit is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA.