Astronomy Picture of the Day · August 2012
APOD, August 2012
31 entries from August 2012: 28 images and 3 videos. 16 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
August 1, 2012 · Copyrighted The Milky Way Over Monument Valley
Image Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (AstroPics.com, TWAN )
August 2, 2012 · Copyrighted South Pole Star Trails
Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Schwarz (South Pole Station)
August 3, 2012 · Copyrighted Messier 5
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block , Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter , University of Arizona
August 4, 2012 · Copyrighted The Bubble Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Yves Van den Broek
August 5, 2012 IC 1396: Emission Nebula in Cepheus
Image Credit: Digitized Sky Survey , ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator Color Composite: Davide De Martin ( Skyfactory )Video August 6, 2012 · VideoNocturnal: Scenes from the Southern Night
Video Credit: Colin Legg ; Music Credit: Nocturnal (Redux) by Unkle
August 7, 2012 A Wheel on Mars
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech/Mars Science Laboratory
August 8, 2012 Curiosity Drops In
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona, HiRise-LPL
August 9, 2012 · Copyrighted Mars in the Loop
Image Credit & Copyright: Cenk E. Tezel, Tunç Tezel ( TWAN )
August 10, 2012 Perseid Below
Credit: Ron Garan, ISS Expedition 28 Crew , NASA
August 11, 2012 The First Color Panorama from Mars by Curiosity
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS
August 12, 2012 Spiral Galaxy NGC 4038 in Collision
Image Credit: Data Collection: Hubble Legacy Archive ; Processing: Danny Lee Russell
August 13, 2012 · Video A Flight Through the Universe
Video Credit: M. A. Aragn ( JHU ), M. SubbaRao ( Adler ), A. Szalay ( JHU ), Y. Yao (LBN, NERSC ), and the SDSS-III Collaboration
August 14, 2012 · Copyrighted Perseid Meteors and the Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Jens Hackmann
August 15, 2012 Curiosity on Mars: A Wall of Gale Crater
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS
August 16, 2012 · Copyrighted NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: J-P Metsävainio ( Astro Anarchy )
August 17, 2012 · Copyrighted Spiral Galaxy NGC 5033
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block , Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter , University of Arizona
August 18, 2012 Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech
August 19, 2012 M72: A Globular Cluster of Stars
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble , HPOW
August 20, 2012 · Copyrighted A Filament Across the Sun
Image Credit & Copyright: Bret Dahl
August 21, 2012 · Video · Copyrighted DNA: The Molecule that Defines You
Animation Credit & Copyright: Drew Berry , WEHI , HHMI , DNALC
August 22, 2012 · Copyrighted Clouds Near the Edge of Space
Image Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén ( Clear Skies , TWAN )
August 23, 2012 · Copyrighted Conjunction Colours
Image Credit & Copyright: Phil Hart
August 24, 2012 · Copyrighted Moon Meets Morning Star
Image Credit & Copyright: Kwon, O Chul ( TWAN )
August 25, 2012 · Copyrighted Perseid over Albrechtsberg Castle
Image Credit & Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer
August 26, 2012 The Cat's Eye Nebula
Image Credit: J. P. Harrington ( U. Maryland ) & K. J. Borkowski ( NCSU ) HST , NASA
August 27, 2012 Curiosity on Mars: Mt. Sharp in View
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Additional Mosaic Processing: Kenneth Kremer & Marco Di Lorenzo
August 28, 2012 · Copyrighted Colorful Clouds Near Rho Ophiuchi
Image Credit & Copyright: Tom O’Donoghue
August 29, 2012 A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite
Image Credit: ISS Expedition 31 Crew , NASA
August 30, 2012 Apollo 11 Landing Site Panorama
Credit: Neil Armstrong , Apollo 11 , NASA – Panorama by Syd Buxton
August 31, 2012 · Copyrighted Halo of the Cat's Eye
Image Credit & Copyright: Don GoldmanThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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