Astronomy Picture of the Day · February 2017
APOD, February 2017
28 entries from February 2017: 26 images and 2 videos. 17 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
February 1, 2017 · Video Four Planets Orbiting Star HR 8799
Video Credit & CC BY License: J. Wang ( UC Berkeley ) & C. Marois ( Herzberg Astrophysics ), NExSS ( NASA ), Keck Obs.
February 2, 2017 · Copyrighted NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Mazlin , Warren Keller , and Steve Menaker ( SSRO / UNC / PROMPT / CTIO )
February 3, 2017 · Copyrighted Milky Way with Airglow Australis
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory , TWAN )
February 4, 2017 · Copyrighted Conjunction of Four
Image Credit & Copyright: Maxime Oudoux
February 5, 2017 Odysseus Crater on Tethys
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
February 6, 2017 · Copyrighted The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble , HLA ; Reprocessing & Copyright: Raul Villaverde
February 7, 2017 NGC 6357: The Lobster Nebula
Image Credit: ESO , VLT Survey Telescope
February 8, 2017 · Copyrighted The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble , HLA ; Reprocessing & Copyright: Jess M.Vargas & Maritxu Poyal
February 9, 2017 Crescent Enceladus
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA
February 10, 2017 · Copyrighted Melotte 15 in the Heart
Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Cooper
February 11, 2017 Solar System Portrait
Image Credit: Voyager Project , NASA
February 12, 2017 · Copyrighted Comet 45P Passes Near the Earth
Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
February 13, 2017 Cloud Swirls around Southern Jupiter from Juno
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , SwRI , MSSS ; Processing: Damian Peach
February 14, 2017 · Copyrighted The Rosette Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Evangelos Souglakos
February 15, 2017 The Calabash Nebula from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble , MAST ; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
February 16, 2017 · Copyrighted The Tulip and Cygnus X-1
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder
February 17, 2017 · Copyrighted Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660
Image Credit & Copyright: CHART32 Team , Processing – Johannes Schedler
February 18, 2017 · Copyrighted Penumbral Eclipse Rising
Image Credit & Copyright: Bill Jelen
February 19, 2017 · Copyrighted Black Sun and Inverted Starfield
Image Credit & Copyright: Jim Lafferty
February 20, 2017 · Copyrighted Almost Three Tails for Comet Encke
Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
February 21, 2017 · Video · Copyrighted An Active Night over the Magellan Telescopes
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory , TWAN ); Music Credit & License: Airglow by Club 220
February 22, 2017 Daphnis and the Rings of Saturn
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Space Science Institute , Cassini
February 23, 2017 Seven Worlds for TRAPPIST-1
Illustration Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Spitzer Space Telescope , Robert Hurt ( Spitzer, Caltech )
February 24, 2017 · Copyrighted NGC 3621: Far Beyond the Local Group
Image Credit & Copyright: Processing – Robert Gendler , Roberto Colombari Data – Hubble Legacy Archive , European Southern Observatory , et al.
February 25, 2017 · Copyrighted All Planets Panorama
Image Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel ( TWAN )
February 26, 2017 · Copyrighted A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana
Image Credit & Copyright: Sean R. Heavey
February 27, 2017 Four Quasar Images Surround a Galaxy Lens
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble , NASA , Sherry Suyu et al.
February 28, 2017 A White Oval Cloud on Jupiter from Juno
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , SwRI , MSSS ; Processing: Roman TkachenkoThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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