Astronomy Picture of the Day · December 2011
APOD, December 2011
31 entries from December 2011: 30 images and 1 videos. 21 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 1, 2011 · Copyrighted Young Moon Meets Evening Star
Image Credit & Copyright: Benjamim Ribeiro
December 2, 2011 · Copyrighted Solar Eclipse over Antarctica
Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Zelayeta (San Martín Station, Antarctica)
December 3, 2011 · Copyrighted As Above, So Below
Image Credit & Copyright: Boris Štromar
December 4, 2011 Light Echoes from V838 Mon
Image Credit : NASA , ESA, H. E. Bond (STScI)
December 5, 2011 · Copyrighted A Memorable Aurora Over Norway
Image Credit & Copyright: Ole Christian SalomonsenVideo December 6, 2011 · Video · CopyrightedJupiter Rotation Movie from Pic du Midi
Image Credit & Copyright: S2P / IMCCE / OPM / JL Dauvergne et al.
December 7, 2011 Kepler 22b: An Almost Earth Orbiting an Almost Sun
Illustration Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech
December 8, 2011 · Copyrighted Sh2-239: Celestial Impasto
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block , Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter , University of Arizona
December 9, 2011 · Copyrighted Eclipsed Moon in the Morning
Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi ( TWAN )
December 10, 2011 Vesta Rocks
Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Hap McSween (Univ. Tennessee), A. Beck and T. McCoy (Smithsonian Inst.)
December 11, 2011 · Copyrighted Searching for Meteorites in Antarctica
Image Credit & Copyright: Ralph P. Harvey ( CWRU ), Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program , NASA , NSF
December 12, 2011 An Unusual Vein of Deposited Rock on Mars
Image Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , NASA , JPL , Cornell ; Image Processing: Kenneth Kremer , Marco Di Lorenzo
December 13, 2011 · Copyrighted In the Vicinity of the Cone Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Dieter Willasch ( Astro-Cabinet )
December 14, 2011 · Copyrighted A Lunar Eclipse Over an Indian Peace Pagoda
Image Credit & Copyright: Chander Devgun ( SPACE )
December 15, 2011 · Copyrighted The Umbra of Earth
Image Credit & Copyright: Wang, Letian
December 16, 2011 · Copyrighted Red Moon Rising
Image Credit & Copyright: Oshin Zakarian ( TWAN )
December 17, 2011 Comet Lovejoy: Sungrazing Survivor
Credit: LASCO , SOHO Consortium , NRL , ESA , NASA
December 18, 2011 · Copyrighted Hints of Higgs from the LargeHadronCollider
Credit & Copyright: Maximilien Brice, CERN
December 19, 2011 · Copyrighted A Geminid Meteor Over Iran
Credit & Copyright: Arman Golestaneh
December 20, 2011 · Copyrighted NGC 253: The Sculptor Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Angus Lau
December 21, 2011 A Horseshoe Einstein Ring from Hubble
Image Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA
December 22, 2011 · Copyrighted Through a Sun Tunnel
Image Credit & Copyright: Arne Erisoty
December 23, 2011 · Copyrighted Shell Galaxy NGC 7600
Image Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford ( Rancho Del Sol Observatory ) Collaboration: Andrew Cooper ( MPA ), Carlos Frenk, John Helly, Shaun Cole ( Institute for Computational Cosmology ), David Martinez-Delgado ( MPIA ), Star Stream Pilot Survey Group
December 24, 2011 · Copyrighted Eclipsed Moon in the Morning
Image Credit & Copyright: Roger N. Clark
December 25, 2011 M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , J. Hester, A. Loll ( ASU ); Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin ( Skyfactory )
December 26, 2011 A Raging Storm System on Saturn
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
December 27, 2011 · Copyrighted M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Bill Snyder ( Bill Snyder Photography )
December 28, 2011 · Copyrighted Comet Lovejoy over Paranal
Image Credit & Copyright: Guillaume Blanchard
December 29, 2011 · Copyrighted Conjunction at Sunset
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefano De Rosa
December 30, 2011 The Diner at the Center of the Galaxy
Illustration Credit: ESO / MPE / Marc Schartmann
December 31, 2011 Comet Lovejoy and the ISS
Image Credit: Left – Carlos Caccia , (Intendente Alvear, Argentina) / Right – Dan Burbank ( ISS Expedition 30 , NASA)Thumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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