Astronomy Picture of the Day · December 2015
APOD, December 2015
31 entries from December 2015: 26 images and 5 videos. 22 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 1, 2015 · Copyrighted Nebulae in Auriga
Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
December 2, 2015 · Video · Copyrighted Golden Gate Sunset: Green Flash
Video Credit & Copyright: Alex Rivest ; Music: Eureka by Huma-Huma
December 3, 2015 Enceladus: Ringside Water World
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
December 4, 2015 · Copyrighted Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder
December 5, 2015 · Video · Copyrighted Kepler Orrery IV
Video Credit & Copyright: Ethan Kruse (University of Washington)
December 6, 2015 · Copyrighted A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect
Image Credit & Copyright: Umar Mohideen ( U. California at Riverside )
December 7, 2015 · Copyrighted Comet Catalina Emerges
Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
December 8, 2015 · Copyrighted Icelandic Legends and Aurora
Image Credit & Copyright: Elizabeth M. Ryan ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
December 9, 2015 Arp 87: Merging Galaxies from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Space Telescope ; Processing: Douglas Gardner
December 10, 2015 · Copyrighted Daytime Moon Meets Morning Star
Image Credit & Copyright: Phillip A Cruden
December 11, 2015 The Brightest Spot on Ceres
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS/DLR/IDA
December 12, 2015 · Copyrighted Comet Meets Moon and Morning Star
Image Credit & Copyright: Greg Hogan
December 13, 2015 · Copyrighted When Gemini Sends Stars to Paranal
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard ( Los Cielos de America ), TWAN
December 14, 2015 Pluto: From Mountains to Plains
Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins U. APL , SwRI
December 15, 2015 · Copyrighted Colorful Arcs over Buenos Aires
Image Credit & Copyright: Sergio Montfar ( Planetario Ciudad de La Plata , pna )
December 16, 2015 · Copyrighted The Horsehead Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Jos Jimnez Priego
December 17, 2015 · Copyrighted Geminids of the South
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory , TWAN )
December 18, 2015 Herbig-Haro 24
Herbig-Haro 24 Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) / Hubble-Europe Collaboration Acknowledgment: D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii)
December 19, 2015 · Copyrighted Star Streams and the Whale Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: R Jay Gabany (Blackbird Observatory) Collaboration: David Martínez-Delgado (University of Heidelberg), et al.
December 20, 2015 A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite
Image Credit: ISS, Expedition 31 Crew , NASA
December 21, 2015 SN Refsdal: The First Predicted Supernova Image
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and S. Rodney ( JHU ) and the FrontierSN team; T. Treu ( UCLA ), P. Kelly ( UC Berkeley ), and the GLASS team; J. Lotz ( STScI ) and the Frontier Fields team ; M. Postman ( STScI ) and the CLASH team ; and Z. Levay ( STScI )Video December 22, 2015 · Video · CopyrightedSolstice Illuminated: A Year of Sky
Video Credit & Copyright: Ken Murphy ( MurphLab ); Music: Ariel ( Moby )
December 23, 2015 · Copyrighted Geminid Meteors over Xinglong Observatory
Image Credit & Copyright: Steed Yu and NightChina.net
December 24, 2015 · Copyrighted Star Colors and Pinyon Pine
Image Credit & Copyright: Stan Honda
December 25, 2015 · Video · Copyrighted To Scale: The Solar System
Video Credit & Copyright: Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh
December 26, 2015 · Copyrighted Southern Craters and Galaxies
Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi ( TWAN )
December 27, 2015 Doomed Star Eta Carinae
Image Credit: J. Morse ( Arizona State U. ), K. Davidson ( U. Minnesota ) et al., WFPC2 , HST , NASA
December 28, 2015 · Video Falcon 9 First Stage Landing
Video Credit: SpaceX
December 29, 2015 · Copyrighted Dust of the Orion Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile
December 30, 2015 · Copyrighted The Fox Fur Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: John Vermette
December 31, 2015 · Copyrighted Solstice Sun at Lulworth Cove
Image Credit & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos ( GreekSky )Thumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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