Astronomy Picture of the Day · May 2017
APOD, May 2017
31 entries from May 2017: 28 images and 3 videos. 16 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
May 1, 2017 Cooling Neutron Star
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA / CXC /UNAM/Ioffe/ D.Page , P. Shternin et al ; Optical: NASA/ STScI ; Illustration: NASA/ CXC /M. Weiss
May 2, 2017 Approach above Sunset
Image Credit: ESA , NASA
May 3, 2017 · Copyrighted NGC 3628: The Hamburger Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles and Mel Helm
May 4, 2017 The Perseus Cluster Waves
Image Credit: NASA , CXC , GSFC , Stephen Walker, et al.
May 5, 2017 · Copyrighted The Bull's Eye and the Young Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgia Hofer
May 6, 2017 Galaxy Cluster Abell 370 and Beyond
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Jennifer Lotz and the HFF Team ( STScI)
May 7, 2017 · Copyrighted Star Formation in the Tadpole Nebula
Image Credit: WISE , IRSA , NASA ; Processing & Copyright : Francesco Antonucci
May 8, 2017 Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS ;
May 9, 2017 · Copyrighted Big Dipper Above and Below Chilean Volcanoes
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory , TWAN )
May 10, 2017 · Copyrighted UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble , HLA ; Processing & Copyright: Domingo Pestana
May 11, 2017 The Multiwavelength Crab
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , G. Dubner (IAFE, CONICET-University of Buenos Aires) et al.; A. Loll et al.; T. Temim et al.; F. Seward et al.; VLA/NRAO/AUI/NSF; Chandra/CXC; Spitzer/JPL-Caltech; XMM-Newton/ESA; Hubble/ STScI
May 12, 2017 · Copyrighted M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block , Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter , U. Arizona
May 13, 2017 Planet Aurora
Image Credit: Scott Kelly, Expedition 44 , NASA
May 14, 2017 Ganymede: The Largest Moon
Image Credit: NASA , JPL , Galileo Probe
May 15, 2017 · Video Lightning Storm Moves Across the USA
Image Credit: NOAA , NASA , Lockheed Martin , GOES-16 , GLM
May 16, 2017 · Copyrighted Gemini Stars Pollux and Castor
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)
May 17, 2017 Galaxy Group Hickson 90
Image Credit: NASA ; ESA , Hubble Legacy Archive ; Processing: Oliver Czernetz
May 18, 2017 · Copyrighted Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel López / IAC
May 19, 2017 Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte
Image Credit: ESO , VST/Omegacam Local Group Survey
May 20, 2017 · Copyrighted A View Toward M101
Image Credit & Copyright: Laszlo Bagi
May 21, 2017 In the Center of the Lagoon Nebula
Image Credit: Hubble , A. Caulet (ST-ECF, ESA ), NASA
May 22, 2017 · Copyrighted A Zodiacal Sky over Horseshoe Bend
Image Credit & Copyright: David Lane
May 23, 2017 · Video · Copyrighted Approaching Jupiter
Video Composition & Copyright: Peter Rosn et al.; Music: The Awakening by Clemens Ruh
May 24, 2017 · Copyrighted NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge
Image Credit & Copyright: Lrnd Fnyes
May 25, 2017 · Copyrighted Star Cluster, Spiral Galaxy, Supernova
Image Credit & Copyright: Paolo Demaria
May 26, 2017 · Copyrighted Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Verschatse
May 27, 2017 · Copyrighted Comet Clark is near the Edge
Image Credit & Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile
May 28, 2017 Collapse in Hebes Chasma on Mars
Image Credit & License: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin ( G. Neukum )
May 29, 2017 Beneath Jupiter
Image Credit: NASA , Juno , SwRI , MSSS ; Processing & License: Gerald Eichstdt & Sen Doran
May 30, 2017 · Copyrighted A Kalahari Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
May 31, 2017 · Video Approaching the Bubble Nebula
Visualization Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, and L. Frattare (Viz 3D Team, STScI); Acknowledgment: T. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF, NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)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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