Astronomy Picture of the Day · December 2012
APOD, December 2012
31 entries from December 2012: 30 images and 1 videos. 16 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 1, 2012 Northern Mercury
Credit: NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. Washington
December 2, 2012 · Copyrighted The Gegenschein Over Chile
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( ESO )
December 3, 2012 · Copyrighted A Quadruple Lunar Halo Over Spain
Image Credit & Copyright: Dani Caxete
December 4, 2012 In the Center of Saturn's North Polar Vortex
Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute
December 5, 2012 Plasma Jets from Radio Galaxy Hercules A
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , S. Baum & C. O’Dea ( RIT ), R. Perley and W. Cotton ( NRAO / AUI / NSF ), and the Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )
December 6, 2012 · Copyrighted 47 Tuc Near the Small Magellanic Cloud
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder
December 7, 2012 Earth at Night
Image Credit : NASA , NOAA NGDC , Suomi-NPP , Earth Observatory , Data and Processing: Chris Elvidge and Robert Simmon
December 8, 2012 · Copyrighted Baku Moonrise
Image Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel ( TWAN )
December 9, 2012 The Astronaut Who Captured a Satellite
Image Credit: STS-51A , NASAVideo December 10, 2012 · Video · CopyrightedTime-Lapse: A Total Solar Eclipse
Video Credit & Copyright: Colin Legg
December 11, 2012 NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive , ESA , NASA ; Processing – Donald Waid
December 12, 2012 · Copyrighted Milky Way Over Quiver Tree Forest
Image Credit & Copyright: Florian Breuer
December 13, 2012 Apollo 17: A Stereo View from Lunar Orbit
Image Credit: Gene Cernan , Apollo 17 , NASA ; Anaglyph by Patrick Vantuyne
December 14, 2012 · Copyrighted Umbra World
Image Credit & Copyright: Dennis L. Mammana ( TWAN )
December 15, 2012 · Copyrighted When Gemini Sends Stars to Paranal
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard ( Los Cielos de America ), TWAN
December 16, 2012 · Copyrighted MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Tuthill ( Sydney U. ) & James Lloyd ( Cornell )
December 17, 2012 NGC 922: Collisional Ring Galaxy
Image Credit: NASA , ESA ; Acknowledgement: Nick Rose
December 18, 2012 · Copyrighted A Sun Pillar Over Sweden
Image Credit & Copyright: Gran Strand
December 19, 2012 NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )
December 20, 2012 · Copyrighted M33: Triangulum Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler , Subaru Telescope ( NAOJ ) Image data: Subaru Telescope, Robert Gendler, Brigham Young University Obs. , Johannes Schedler
December 21, 2012 · Copyrighted Orion over El Castillo
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard ( Los Cielos de America , TWAN ) Credits: D. Flores and B. Pichardo ( Inst. Astronomia UNAM ), P. Sánchez and R. Nafate ( INAH )
December 22, 2012 Saturn at Night
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Space Science Institute , Cassini Imaging Team
December 23, 2012 · Copyrighted Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass
Image Credit & Copyright: A. Dimai, ( Col Druscie Obs. ), AAC
December 24, 2012 · Copyrighted Hyades for the Holidays
Image Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss ( Catching the Light )
December 25, 2012 · Copyrighted Yosemite Winter Night
Image Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (AstroPics.com, TWAN )
December 26, 2012 Makemake of the Outer Solar System
Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory
December 27, 2012 Curiosity Rover at Rocknest on Mars
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS , MAHLI
December 28, 2012 · Copyrighted NGC 6188 and NGC 6164
Image Credit & Copyright: Kfir Simon
December 29, 2012 Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Spitzer Space Telescope
December 30, 2012 Doomed Star Eta Carinae
Image Credit: J. Morse ( Arizona State U. ), K. Davidson ( U. Minnesota ) et al., WFPC2 , HST , NASA
December 31, 2012 Saturn's Rings from the Dark Side
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASAThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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