Astronomy Picture of the Day · December 2016
APOD, December 2016
31 entries from December 2016: 30 images and 1 videos. 20 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 1, 2016 · Copyrighted Flaming Star Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block , Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter , Univ. Arizona
December 2, 2016 A Triple Star is Born
Image Credit: Bill Saxton, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NRAO /AUI/NSF – Publication: John Tobin (Univ. Oklahoma/Leiden) et al.
December 3, 2016 · Copyrighted Galaxies in Pegasus
Image Credit & Copyright: Péter Feltóti
December 4, 2016 · Copyrighted Orion and Official Star Names
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo
December 5, 2016 · Copyrighted Lightning over Colorado
Image Credit & Copyright: Joe Randall
December 6, 2016 Aurora over Jupiter's South Pole from Juno
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , SwRI , ASI , INAF , JIRAM
December 7, 2016 NGC 4696: Filaments around a Black Hole
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble , A. Fabian
December 8, 2016 · Copyrighted Whirlpool with Comets
Image Credit & Copyright: José J. Chambó ( Cometografia )
December 9, 2016 · Copyrighted IC 4628: The Prawn Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Data – ESO/INAF/R. Colombari/E. Recurt, Processing – R. Colombari
December 10, 2016 · Copyrighted The Lunar X
Image Credit & Copyright: Alessandro Marchini ( Astronomical Observatory , DSFTA – Univ. of Siena), Liceo “Alessandro Volta” Student Astronomers
December 11, 2016 The Extraordinary Spiral in LL Pegasi
Image Credit: ESA , Hubble , R. Sahai ( JPL ), NASA
December 12, 2016 Over Saturn's Turbulent North Pole
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
December 13, 2016 · Copyrighted Meteors over Four Girls Mountain
Image Credit & Copyright: Alvin Wu
December 14, 2016 · Copyrighted The Lagoon Nebula in High Definition
Image Credit & Copyright: Data – ESO/INAF/R. Colombari/E. Recurt; Assembling & Processing : R. Colombari
December 15, 2016 · Copyrighted Seagull to Sirius
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)
December 16, 2016 · Copyrighted Meteors vs Supermoon
Image Credit & Copyright: Wang, Letian
December 17, 2016 Southern Jupiter from Perijove 3
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , SwRI , MSSS ; Processing: Damian Peach
December 18, 2016 The Cartwheel Galaxy from Hubble
Image Credit: ESA , NASA , Hubble
December 19, 2016 · Copyrighted Supermoon over Spanish Castle
Image Credit & Copyright: Tomeu Mas
December 20, 2016 · Copyrighted Sharpless 308: Star Bubble
Image Credit & Copyright: Anis Abdul
December 21, 2016 · Video · Copyrighted Traces of the Sun
Video Credit & Copyright: György Bajmóczy
December 22, 2016 · Copyrighted An Airplane Glory
Image Credit & Copyright: Shane Larson ( Adler Planetarium , CIERA-Northwestern )
December 23, 2016 · Copyrighted Once Upon a Solstice Eve
Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
December 24, 2016 · Copyrighted Fox Fur, Unicorn, and Christmas Tree
Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Miller , Jimmy Walker
December 25, 2016 · Copyrighted The Magnificent Horsehead Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Burali, Tiziano Capecchi, Marco Mancini ( Osservatorio MTM )
December 26, 2016 NGC 6357: Stellar Wonderland
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L. Townsley et al; Optical: UKIRT; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
December 27, 2016 · Copyrighted M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Farmakopoulos Antonis
December 28, 2016 Curiosity Surveys Lower Mount Sharp on Mars
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS ;
December 29, 2016 · Copyrighted Shell Game in the LMC
Image Credit & Copyright: John Gleason
December 30, 2016 Lunar Farside
Image Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
December 31, 2016 Infrared Trifid
Image Credit: J. Rho ( SSC/Caltech ), JPL-Caltech , NASAThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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