Astronomy Picture of the Day · December 2014
APOD, December 2014
31 entries from December 2014: 30 images and 1 videos. 21 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 1, 2014 · Copyrighted Stars and Dust Pillars in NGC 7822 from WISE
Image Credit: WISE , IRSA , NASA ; Processing & Copyright : Francesco Antonucci
December 2, 2014 · Copyrighted Eta Carinae and the Expanding Homunculus Nebula
Image Credit: Hubble , NASA , ESA ; Processing & Copyright: First Light , J. L. Dauvergne , P. Henarejos
December 3, 2014 · Copyrighted Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: César Blanco González
December 4, 2014 · Copyrighted Plato and the Lunar Alps
Image Credit & Copyright: Richard Bosman
December 5, 2014 · Copyrighted Milky Way over Moon Valley
Image Credit & Copyright: Rafael Defavari
December 6, 2014 Orion Launch
Image Credit: NASA , Bill Ingalls
December 7, 2014 · Copyrighted Aurora Shimmer, Meteor Flash
Image Credit & Copyright: Bjørnar G. HansenVideo December 8, 2014 · VideoWanderers
Video Credit: Visuals: Erik Wernquist ; Music: Christian Sandquist Words & Voice: Carl Sagan
December 9, 2014 · Copyrighted The Flame Nebula in Visible and Infrared
Image Credit & Copyright: Optical (RGB+Ha): Aldo Mottino & Ezequiel Bellocchio (Argentina); Infrared: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA.
December 10, 2014 · Copyrighted The Reddening of M71
Image Credit & Copyright: Bob Franke
December 11, 2014 · Copyrighted Moondog Night
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Ratcliffe
December 12, 2014 Crystals on Mars
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS
December 13, 2014 · Copyrighted The Infrared Visible Andromeda
Image Credit: Subaru Telescope ( NAOJ ), Hubble Space Telescope Mayall 4M Telescope ( KPNO, NOAO ), Digitized Sky Survey , Spitzer Space Telescope Processing & Copyright: Robert Gendler
December 14, 2014 Molecular Cloud Barnard 68
Image Credit: FORS Team , 8.2-meter VLT Antu , ESO
December 15, 2014 The Potsdam Gravity Potato
Image Credit: CHAMP , GRACE , GFZ , NASA , DLR
December 16, 2014 · Copyrighted W5: Pillars of Star Formation
Image Credit: WISE , IRSA , NASA ; Processing & Copyright : Francesco Antonucci
December 17, 2014 Geminid Fireball over Mount Balang
Image Credit: Alvin Wu
December 18, 2014 · Copyrighted NGC 7331 and Beyond
Image Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas
December 19, 2014 · Copyrighted Reflections on the 1970s
Image Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Walker
December 20, 2014 Apollo 11 Landing Site Panorama
Neil Armstrong , Apollo 11 , NASA
December 21, 2014 · Copyrighted Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Danilo Pivato
December 22, 2014 The Mysterious Methane of Mars
Illustration Credit: Methane Workshop , Frascati Italy, Villanueva et al. 2009 , ESA Medialab, NASA
December 23, 2014 The Cliffs of Comet ChuryumovGerasimenko
Image Credit & Licence (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO): ESA , Rosetta spacecraft , NAVCAM; Additional Processing: Stuart Atkinson
December 24, 2014 · Copyrighted IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Bill Snyder ( Bill Snyder Photography )
December 25, 2014 · Copyrighted This Comet Lovejoy
Image Credit & Copyright: Damian Peach / SEN
December 26, 2014 · Copyrighted Cetus Duo M77 and NGC 1055
Image Credit & Copyright: Dieter Willasch ( Astro-Cabinet )
December 27, 2014 · Copyrighted The Winter Shower
Image Credit & Copyright: Jia Hao
December 28, 2014 · Copyrighted Unusual Light Pillars over Latvia
Image Credit & Copyright: Aigar Truhin
December 29, 2014 The Sun in X-rays from NuSTAR
Image Credit: NuSTAR , SDO , NASA
December 30, 2014 · Copyrighted Observatory, Mountains, Universe
Image Credit & Copyright: Boris Dmitriev ( Night Scape )
December 31, 2014 · Copyrighted Comet Lovejoy before a Globular Star Cluster
Image Credit & Copyright: Dieter Willasch ( Astro-Cabinet )Thumbnails 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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