Astronomy Picture of the Day · August 2016
APOD, August 2016
31 entries from August 2016: 30 images and 1 videos. 22 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
August 1, 2016 Behind Saturn
Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute
August 2, 2016 · Video · Copyrighted A Rocket Booster Falls Back to Earth
Video Credit & Copyright: Matthew Holt
August 3, 2016 · Copyrighted Behold the Universe
Image Credit & Copyright: A. Garrett Evans ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
August 4, 2016 · Copyrighted M63: Sunflower Galaxy Wide Field
Image Credit & Copyright: Data – Deep Sky West , Processing – John Vermette
August 5, 2016 · Copyrighted Apollo 15 Panorama
Image Credit & Copyright: Apollo 15 , USGS , NASA
August 6, 2016 · Copyrighted Las Campanas Moon and Mercury
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory , TWAN )
August 7, 2016 Io: Moon over Jupiter
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
August 8, 2016 · Copyrighted Perseid Meteors over Mount Shasta
Image Credit & Copyright: Brad Goldpaint ( Goldpaint Photography )
August 9, 2016 Mars at Closest Approach
Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
August 10, 2016 · Copyrighted Colliding Galaxies in Stephan's Quintet
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive , NASA , ESA ; Processing & Copyright: Jose Jimenez Priego
August 11, 2016 · Copyrighted Perseid, Aurora, and Noctilucent Clouds
Image Credit & Copyright: Göran Strand
August 12, 2016 · Copyrighted The Easterbunny Comes to NGC 4725
Image Credit & Copyright: Bob English
August 13, 2016 · Copyrighted Perseid from Torralba del Burgo
Image Credit & Copyright: Fernando Cabrerizo
August 14, 2016 The Keyhole in the Carina Nebula
Image Credit: NASA , Hubble Heritage ( AURA / STScI )
August 15, 2016 · Copyrighted Human as Spaceship
Space Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble , and J. Maiz- Apellániz ( IAA ); Acknowledgement: D. De Martin; Human Image Copyright: Charis Tsevis ; Composition: R. J. Nemiroff
August 16, 2016 · Copyrighted Five Planets and the Moon over Australia
Image Credit & Copyright: Alex Cherney ( Terrastro , TWAN )
August 17, 2016 · Copyrighted Meteor before Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
August 18, 2016 · Copyrighted Perseid Night at Yosemite
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Shaw
August 19, 2016 · Copyrighted Perseid Fireball at Sunset Crater
Image Credit & Copyright: Jeremy Perez
August 20, 2016 · Copyrighted Gamma-rays and Comet Dust
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel López ( El Cielo de Canarias )
August 21, 2016 Map of Total Solar Eclipse Path in 2017 August
Image Credit: Fred Espenak ( NASA ‘s GSFC ), MrEclipse.com , Google Maps
August 22, 2016 · Copyrighted Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma
Image Credit & Copyright: Cenk E. Tezel and Tunç Tezel ( TWAN )
August 23, 2016 · Copyrighted Gigantic Jet Lightning over China
Image Credit & Copyright: Phebe Pan
August 24, 2016 Curiosity at Murray Buttes on Mars
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS
August 25, 2016 Closest Star has Potentially Habitable Planet
Image Credit & License: Y. Beletsky ( LCO ), ESO , Pale Red Dot Team
August 26, 2016 · Copyrighted The Milky Way Sets
Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado ( TWAN , Earth and Stars )
August 27, 2016 Lunar Orbiter Earthset
Image Credit: NASA / Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
August 28, 2016 Abell 370: Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Lens
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team & ST-ECF
August 29, 2016 · Copyrighted Young Suns of NGC 7129
Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler , Roberto Colombari , Eric Recurt , Adam Block – Additional Data: Subaru (NAOJ)
August 30, 2016 · Copyrighted Aurora over Icelandic Fault
Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado ( TWAN , Earth and Stars )
August 31, 2016 · Copyrighted Annular Solar Eclipse over New Mexico
Image Credit & Copyright: Colleen PinskiThumbnails 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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