Astronomy Picture of the Day · May 2016
APOD, May 2016
31 entries from May 2016: 28 images and 3 videos. 23 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
May 1, 2016 · Copyrighted Contemplating the Sun
Image Credit & Copyright: Steven Gilbert
May 2, 2016 Crossing Mars
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS
May 3, 2016 · Copyrighted Aurora over Sweden
Image Credit & Copyright: Göran Strand
May 4, 2016 · Copyrighted A Mercury Transit Sequence
Image Credit & Copyright: Dominique Dierick
May 5, 2016 · Copyrighted The SONG and the Hunter
Image Credit & Copyright: Mads Fredslund Andersen , Stellar Astrophysics Centre , Aarhus Univ., Denmark
May 6, 2016 · Copyrighted NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Federico Pelliccia
May 7, 2016 Three Worlds for TRAPPIST-1
Illustration Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
May 8, 2016 · Copyrighted Mercury's Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun
Image Credit & Copyright: David Cortner
May 9, 2016 · Video Webb Telescope Mirror Rises after Assembly
Image Credit: NASA ‘s GSFC , Francis Reddy , Syneren Technologies
May 10, 2016 · Copyrighted Saturn and Mars visit Milky Way Star Clouds
Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Eduardo Fairbairn ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
May 11, 2016 · Video A Mercury Transit Music Video from SDO
Video Credit: NASA ‘s Goddard Space Flight Center , Genna Duberstein ; Music: Encompass by Mark Petrie
May 12, 2016 · Copyrighted A Transit of Mercury
Image Credit & Copyright: Howard Brown-Greaves
May 13, 2016 · Copyrighted ISS and Mercury Too
Image Credit & Copyright: Thierry Legault
May 14, 2016 · Copyrighted Falcon 9 and Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Derek Demeter ( Emil Buehler Planetarium )
May 15, 2016 · Copyrighted Milky Way Over Quiver Tree Forest
Image Credit & Copyright: Florian Breuer
May 16, 2016 · Copyrighted Clouds of the Carina Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: John Ebersole
May 17, 2016 · Copyrighted The Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared
Image Credit & Copyright: Infrared: NASA , Spitzer Space Telescope ; Visible: Oliver Czernetz , Siding Spring Obs.
May 18, 2016 · Copyrighted Halo from Atacama
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory , TWAN )
May 19, 2016 The Surface of Europa
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , SETI Institute
May 20, 2016 · Copyrighted 3D Mercury Transit
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip ( TWAN )
May 21, 2016 · Copyrighted Milky Way and Planets Near Opposition
Image Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel ( TWAN )
May 22, 2016 LL Orionis: When Cosmic Winds Collide
Image Credit: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI ), C. R. O’Dell( Vanderbilt U. ), NASA
May 23, 2016 · Copyrighted Inside a Daya Bay Antineutrino Detector
Image Credit & Copyright: DOE , Berkeley Lab – Roy Kaltschmidt , photographer
May 24, 2016 · Copyrighted Milky Way Over the Spanish Peaks
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
May 25, 2016 · Copyrighted NGC 5078 and Friends
Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager , Eric Benson
May 26, 2016 · Copyrighted IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Data – Subaru Telescope (NAOJ) , R. Colombari, Processing – Roberto Colombari
May 27, 2016 · Copyrighted The Great Carina Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Ward ( Barden Ridge Observatory )
May 28, 2016 · Copyrighted Cat's Eye Wide and Deep
Image Credit & Copyright: Josh Smith
May 29, 2016 Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
Image Credit: Viking Project , USGS , NASA
May 30, 2016 · Video Galaxy Evolution Tracking Animation
Video Credit: Donna Cox ( AVL NCSA / U. Illinois ) et al. , NASA ‘s GSFC , AVL , NCSA
May 31, 2016 · Copyrighted Stars and Gas of the Running Chicken Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Andrew CampbellThumbnails 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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