Astronomy Picture of the Day · April 2011
APOD, April 2011
29 entries from April 2011: 29 images and 0 videos. 16 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
April 1, 2011 · Copyrighted It's Raining on Titan
Illustration Credit & Copyright: David A. Hardy ( AstroArt )
April 2, 2011 · Copyrighted Endeavour Looking Up
Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper ( Spaceflight Now , Launch Photography )
April 3, 2011 Giant Galaxy NGC 6872
Image Credit: Sydney Girls High School Astronomy Club, Travis Rector ( Univ. Alaska ), Ángel López-Sánchez (Australian Astronomical Obs./ Macquarie Univ.), Australian Gemini Office
April 4, 2011 Verona Rupes: Tallest Known Cliff in the Solar System
Credit: Voyager 2, NASA
April 5, 2011 · Copyrighted The Milky Way Over Tenerife
Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado ( TWAN )
April 6, 2011 · Copyrighted M74: The Perfect Spiral
Credit & Copyright: Descubre Foundation , Calar Alto Observatory , OAUV , DSA , V. Peris (OAUV), J. L. Lamadrid ( CEFCA ), J. Harvey ( SSRO ), S. Mazlin (SSRO), I. Rodriguez ( PTeam ), O. L. (PTeam), J. Conejero ( PixInsight ).
April 7, 2011 · Copyrighted Planetary Nebula NGC 2438
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel López , IAC
April 8, 2011 · Copyrighted Echoes from the Depths of a Red Giant Star
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Pieter Degroote (Leuven University) Credit: Paul Beck, Joris De Ridder, Conny Aerts ( Leuven University ), et al. , ERC , PROSPERITY
April 9, 2011 Lunar Farside
Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
April 10, 2011 Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet
Credit: TRACE Project , NASA
April 11, 2011 · Copyrighted Otherworldly Planet Rise
Credit & Copyright: Robert Arn ( Colorado St. U. )
April 12, 2011 50 Years Ago: Yuri's Planet
Credit: ISS Expedition 7 Crew, EOL , NASA
April 13, 2011 Centaurus Radio Jets Rising
Credit: Ilana Feain , Tim Cornwell & Ron Ekers ( CSIRO / ATNF ); ATCA northern middle lobe pointing courtesy R. Morganti (ASTRON); Parkes data courtesy N. Junkes (MPIfR); ATCA & Moon photo: Shaun Amy, CSIRO
April 14, 2011 Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud
Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , WISE Team
April 15, 2011 Messier 101
Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive , ESA , NASA ; Processing and additional imaging – Robert Gendler
April 16, 2011 · Copyrighted The Tadpoles of IC 410
Image Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson
April 17, 2011 · Copyrighted View from Everest
Credit & Copyright: Roddy Mackenzie
April 19, 2011 The GRB 110328A Symphony
Credit: NASA , ESA , and A. Fruchter ( STScI )
April 20, 2011 · Copyrighted Rio Morning Moonset
Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi ( TWAN )
April 21, 2011 Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273
Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )
April 22, 2011 · Copyrighted Virgo Cluster Galaxies
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo
April 23, 2011 Shadows at the Lunar South Pole
Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
April 24, 2011 The Cat's Eye Nebula from Hubble
Credit: NASA , ESA , HEIC , and The Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )
April 25, 2011 · Copyrighted Monsters of IC 1396
Credit & Copyright: Geert Barentsen & Jorick Vink ( Armagh Observatory ) & the IPHAS Collaboration
April 26, 2011 · Copyrighted Hydrogen in the LMC
Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi ( Star Echoes )
April 27, 2011 · Copyrighted The Dark Tower in Scorpius
Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman
April 28, 2011 · Copyrighted Scintillating
Image Credit & Copyright: Juergen Michelberger
April 29, 2011 · Copyrighted The Antennae
Image Credit & Copyright: Acquisition and data reduction – Andrey Oreshko (Elena Remote Observatory), Processing – Dietmar Hager ( stargazer-observatory )
April 30, 2011 Tycho's Supernova Remnant
X-Ray Image Credit: NASA / CXC / F.J. Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) et al. Poem: Alice Allen (apologies to William Blake )Thumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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