Astronomy Picture of the Day · April 2016
APOD, April 2016
30 entries from April 2016: 29 images and 1 videos. 15 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
April 1, 2016 Europa: Discover Life Under the Ice
Poster Illustration Credit: NASA , JPL , Visions of the Future
April 2, 2016 Pluto's Bladed Terrain in 3D
Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins Univ./APL , Southwest Research Institute
April 3, 2016 Close-up of the Bubble Nebula
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Legacy Archive ; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
April 4, 2016 · Copyrighted Lucid Dreaming
Image Credit & Copyright: Arnar Kristjansson ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
April 5, 2016 · Video Cancri 55 e: Climate Patterns on a Lava World
Illustration Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Spitzer Space Telescope , Robert Hurt ( Spitzer, Caltech )
April 6, 2016 Auroras and the Magnetosphere of Jupiter
Illustration Credit: JAXA ; Inset Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Chandra , Hubble
April 7, 2016 Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte
Image Credit: ESO , VST/Omegacam Local Group Survey
April 8, 2016 · Copyrighted Lapland Northern Lights
Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado ( TWAN , Earth and Stars )
April 9, 2016 · Copyrighted A Green Flash of Spring
Image Credit & Copyright: Murray Schukar
April 10, 2016 Cassini Approaches Saturn
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SWRI , JPL , ESA , NASA
April 11, 2016 · Copyrighted The Comet and the Star Cluster
Image Credit & Copyright: Jos J. Chamb ( Cometografia )
April 12, 2016 · Copyrighted Combined Solar Eclipse Corona from Earth and Space
Image Credits: J. Vilinga (Angola, IAP ), LASCO , NRL , SOHO , ESA , NASA ; Processing: R. Wittich ; Composition & Copyright: S. Koutchmy ( IAP , CNRS )
April 13, 2016 · Copyrighted Orion in Red and Blue
Image Credit & Copyright: David Lindemann
April 14, 2016 · Copyrighted Full Venus and Crescent Moon Rise
Image Credit & Copyright: A. Rosenberg, D. López ( El Cielo de Canarias ) / IAC
April 15, 2016 · Copyrighted Mercury and Crescent Moon Set
Image Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro ( TWAN , Dark Sky Alqueva )
April 16, 2016 Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System
Illustration Credit: NASA , Marshall Space Flight Center
April 17, 2016 · Copyrighted Asperatus Clouds Over New Zealand
Image Credit & Copyright: Witta Priester
April 18, 2016 The International Space Station over Earth
Image Credit: STS-132 Crew, Expedition 23 Crew, NASA
April 19, 2016 · Copyrighted Andromeda on the Rocks
Image Credit & Copyright: Cristian Fattinnanzi
April 20, 2016 Galaxy Einstein Ring
Image Credit: Y. Hezaveh ( Stanford ) et al. , ALMA ( NRAO / ESO / NAOJ ), NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope
April 21, 2016 · Copyrighted The Comet, the Owl, and the Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Bob Franke
April 22, 2016 NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )
April 23, 2016 · Copyrighted Milky Way in Moonlight
Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi ( TWAN )
April 24, 2016 M16: Pillars of Star Creation
Image Credit: J. Hester, P. Scowen ( ASU ), HST , NASA
April 25, 2016 · Copyrighted Supernova Remnant Simeis 147: The Spaghetti Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Giuseppe Donatiello (Italy) and Tim Stone (USA)
April 26, 2016 NGC 6872: A Stretched Spiral Galaxy
Image Credit: FORS Team , 8.2-meter VLT Antu , ESO ; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
April 27, 2016 · Copyrighted Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Star Cluster
Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Colombari
April 28, 2016 · Copyrighted A Dust Angel Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)
April 29, 2016 Fermi's Gamma-ray Moon
Image Credit: NASA , DOE , International Fermi LAT Collaboration
April 30, 2016 Moon over Makemake
Illustration Credit: Alex H. Parker ( Southwest Research Institute )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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