Astronomy Picture of the Day · August 2011
APOD, August 2011
31 entries from August 2011: 29 images and 2 videos. 13 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
August 1, 2011 Shuttle Reentry Streak from Orbit
Image Credit: ISS Expedition 28 Crew , STS-135 Mission , NASA
August 2, 2011 Asteroid Vesta Full Frame
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS, DLR, IDA
August 3, 2011 The Leo Triplet Galaxies from VST
Image Credit: ESO , INAF-VST , OmegaCAM ; Acknowledgement: OmegaCen , Astro-WISE , Kapteyn I.
August 4, 2011 · Copyrighted A Dusty Iris Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Máximo Ruiz
August 5, 2011 · Copyrighted A Summer Night's Dream
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Rosinski
August 6, 2011 · Copyrighted Comet Garradd and Messier 15
Image Credit & Copyright: Gregg Ruppel
August 7, 2011 MyCn18: An Hourglass Planetary Nebula
Image Credit: R. Sahai and J. Trauger ( JPL ), WFPC2 , HST , NASA
August 8, 2011 Seasonal Dark Streaks on Mars
Image Credit: HiRISE , MRO , LPL (U. Arizona) , NASA
August 9, 2011 · Video Juno Rockets Toward Jupiter
Video Credit: NASA
August 10, 2011 · Copyrighted The Summer Triangle Over Catalonia
Image Credit: Copyright : Juan Carlos Casado ( TWAN )
August 11, 2011 · Copyrighted The Snows of Paranal
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( ESO )
August 12, 2011 · Copyrighted NGC 7331 and Beyond
Image Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford ( Rancho Del Sol Obs. )
August 13, 2011 · Copyrighted Castle and Meteor by Moonlight
Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi ( TWAN )
August 14, 2011 · Copyrighted Tornado and Rainbow Over Kansas
Image Credit & Copyright: Eric Nguyen ( Oklahoma U. ), www.mesoscale.ws
August 15, 2011 Rover Arrives at Endeavour Crater on Mars
Image Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , Cornell , JPL , NASA
August 16, 2011 Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula
Image Credit: ESO
August 17, 2011 Perseid Below
Credit: Ron Garan, ISS Expedition 28 Crew , NASA
August 18, 2011 · Copyrighted A Sun Pillar Over Ontario
Image Credit & Copyright: Rick Stankiewicz ( Peterborough Astronomical Association )
August 19, 2011 Herschel's Cocoon
Credit: ESA , SPIRE & PACS Consortia , Doris Arzoumanian (CEA Saclay), et al.
August 20, 2011 Stereo Vesta
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS, DLR, IDA
August 21, 2011 The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
Image Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team , ( STScI / AURA ), ESA , NASA
August 22, 2011 TrES-2b: Dark Planet
Illustration Credit: David A. Aguilar ( CfA ), TrES , Kepler , NASA
August 23, 2011 · Copyrighted Aurora Over Greenland
Image Credit: Copyright : Juan Carlos Casado ( TWAN )
August 24, 2011 · Copyrighted A Pileus Iridescent Cloud Over Ethiopia
Image Credit & Copyright: Esther Havens ( Light the World )
August 25, 2011 · Copyrighted Portrait of NGC 281
Image Credit & Copyright: J-P Metsävainio ( Astro Anarchy )
August 26, 2011 A Young Supernova in the Nearby Pinwheel Galaxy
Image Credit: D. Andrew Howell & BJ Fulton ( LCOGT ) et al., Faulkes Telescope North , LCOGT
August 27, 2011 · Video Hurricane Irene Forms
Image Credit: GOES 13 satellite , NASA , NOAA
August 28, 2011 A Jet from Galaxy M87
Image Credit: J. A. Biretta et al., Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ), NASA
August 29, 2011 · Copyrighted Hickson 44 in Leo
Image Credit & Copyright: Stephen Leshin
August 30, 2011 The Coldest Brown Dwarf
Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , WISE
August 31, 2011 Roll Cloud Over Wisconsin
Image Credit: Megan Hanrahan ( Pierre cb ), WikipediaThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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- Astronomy Picture of the Day — NASA Science, science.nasa.gov/apod/archive
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