Astronomy Picture of the Day · February 2016
APOD, February 2016
29 entries from February 2016: 26 images and 3 videos. 14 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
February 1, 2016 · Copyrighted Find the Man in the Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Dani Caxete
February 2, 2016 Comet 67P from Spacecraft Rosetta
Image Credit & Licence: ESA , Rosetta , NAVCAM
February 3, 2016 · Copyrighted Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82
Image Credit & Copyright: Andr van der Hoeven , Neil Fleming & Michael Van Doorn
February 4, 2016 Dwarf Planet Ceres
Image Credit & License: NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS,DLR,IDA – Composition: Justin Cowart
February 5, 2016 · Copyrighted Massive Stars in NGC 6357
Image Credit & Copyright: CHART32 Team , Processing – Johannes Schedler
February 6, 2016 · Copyrighted Five Planets at Castell de Burriac
Image Credit & Copyright: Ignacio Llorens
February 7, 2016 Advanced LIGO: Gravitational Wave Detectors Upgraded
Image Credit: LIGO, Caltech , MIT , NSF
February 8, 2016 · Copyrighted Light Pillars over Alaska
Image Credit & Copyright: Allisha Libby
February 9, 2016 · Video · Copyrighted The Rise and Fall of Supernova 2015F
Video Credit & Copyright: Changsu Choi & Myungshin Im ( Seoul National University )
February 10, 2016 · Copyrighted Galaxies in the River
Image Credit & Copyright: CEDIC Team – Processing: Markus Blauensteiner
February 11, 2016 LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes
Illustration Credit: LIGO , NSF , Aurore Simonnet ( Sonoma State U. )
February 12, 2016 · Video Two Black Holes Merge
Simulation Credit: Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Project
February 13, 2016 Yutu on a Little Planet
Image Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese National Space Administration , Emily Lakdawalla ( Planetary Society ) – Stitched by: Andrew Bodrov
February 14, 2016 · Copyrighted A Heart Shaped Lenticular Cloud
Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Kunze
February 15, 2016 White Rock Fingers on Mars
Image Credit: THEMIS , Mars Odyssey Team, ASU , JPL , NASA
February 16, 2016 · Copyrighted Star Forming Region S106
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Legacy Archive ; Processed & Copyright: Brandon Pimenta
February 17, 2016 Milky Way over the Pinnacles in Australia
Image Credit: Michael Goh
February 18, 2016 · Copyrighted Hitomi Launches
Image Credit & Copyright: F. Scott Porter ( NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center)
February 19, 2016 · Copyrighted NGC 2403 in Camelopardalis
Image Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles and Mel Helm
February 20, 2016 Where Your Shadow Has Company
Poster Illustration Credit: NASA , JPL , Exoplanet Travel Bureau
February 21, 2016 M82: Galaxy with a Supergalactic Wind
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , The Hubble Heritage Team, ( STScI / AURA ) Acknowledgement: M. Mountain ( STScI ), P. Puxley ( NSF ), J. Gallagher ( U. Wisconsin )
February 22, 2016 · Video Flying Over Pluto's Moon Charon
Video Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins U. APL , SwRI , Stuart Robbins
February 23, 2016 A Supernova through Galaxy Dust
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ); Inset Image: Howard Hedlund & Dave Jurasevich , Las Campanas Obs.
February 24, 2016 USA's Northeast Megalopolis from Space
Image Credit: NASA , International Space Station
February 25, 2016 · Copyrighted Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the Stars
Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai , O Chul Kwon , Stéphane Guisard ( Los Cielos de America ), TWAN
February 26, 2016 · Copyrighted The Tarantula Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Processing – Robert Gendler , Roberto Colombari Data – Hubble Tarantula Treasury , European Southern Observatory
February 27, 2016 Northern Pluto
Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins Univ./APL , Southwest Research Institute
February 28, 2016 · Copyrighted IC 1848: The Soul Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Colombari
February 29, 2016 Julius Caesar and Leap Days
Image Credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. , WikimediaThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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