Astronomy Picture of the Day · October 2017
APOD, October 2017
31 entries from October 2017: 30 images and 1 videos. 15 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
October 1, 2017 Concept Plane: Supersonic Green Machine
Illustration Credit: NASA , Lockheed Martin Co.
October 2, 2017 · Copyrighted Two Comets and a Star Cluster
Image Credit & Copyright: Damian Peach
October 3, 2017 Ice Ring around Nearby Star Fomalhaut
Image Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. MacGregor; NASA/ESA Hubble, P. Kalas; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
October 4, 2017 The Soul Nebula in Infrared from Herschel
Image Credit & License: ESA , Herschel Space Obs. , NASA , JPL-Caltech
October 5, 2017 Pluto's Bladed Terrain
Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins Univ./APL , Southwest Research Institute
October 6, 2017 Global Aurora at Mars
Image Credit: MAVEN , LASP, University of Colorado , NASA
October 7, 2017 · Copyrighted Eclipsosaurus Rex
Image Credit & Copyright: Fred Espenak ( MrEclipse.com )
October 8, 2017 Dark Molecular Cloud Barnard 68
Image Credit: FORS Team , 8.2-meter VLT Antu , ESO
October 9, 2017 Unusual Mountain Ahuna Mons on Asteroid Ceres
Image Credit: Dawn Mission , NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS/DLR/IDA
October 10, 2017 · Copyrighted Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Australian Pinnacles
Image Credit & Copyright: Jingyi Zhang
October 11, 2017 Star Cluster NGC 362 from Hubble
Image Credit: Hubble WFC3 , NASA , ESA , J. Heyl , I. Caiazzo , & Javiera Parada ( UBC )
October 12, 2017 · Copyrighted NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe
Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager , Eric Benson , Torsten Grossmann
October 13, 2017 · Copyrighted Under the Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory , TWAN )
October 14, 2017 · Copyrighted All-Sky Steve
Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Dyer , Amazingsky.com, TWAN
October 15, 2017 On the Origin of Gold
Illustration Credit: Dana Berry , NASA
October 16, 2017 · Video GW170817: A Spectacular Multi-Radiation Merger Event Detected
Illustrative Video Credit: NASA ‘s Conceptual Imaging Lab
October 17, 2017 Haumea of the Outer Solar System
Illustration Credit: Instituto de Astrofsica de Andaluca
October 18, 2017 · Copyrighted Stars and Dust in Corona Australis
Image Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles & Martin Pugh
October 19, 2017 · Copyrighted M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn ( Weather and Sky Photography )
October 20, 2017 · Copyrighted A Beautiful Trifid
Image Credit & Copyright: Chamaeleon Team – Franz Hofmann, Wolfgang Paech
October 21, 2017 · Copyrighted Lynds Dark Nebula 183
Image Credit & Copyright: Fabian Neyer
October 22, 2017 Two Black Holes Dancing in 3C 75
Image Credit: X-Ray: NASA / CXC / D. Hudson, T. Reiprich et al. ( AIfA ); Radio: NRAO/VLA/ NRL
October 23, 2017 NGC 4993: The Galactic Home of an Historic Explosion
Image Credit: NASA & ESA
October 24, 2017 Where Your Elements Came From
Image Credit & License: Wikipedia : Cmglee ; Data: Jennifer Johnson ( OSU )
October 25, 2017 Marius Hills and a Hole in the Moon
Image Credit: NASA , Lunar Orbiter 2 ; Inset: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
October 26, 2017 · Copyrighted NGC 7635: Bubble in a Cosmic Sea
Image Credit & Copyright: Rolf Geissinger
October 27, 2017 · Copyrighted Mirach's Ghost
Image Credit & Copyright: Kent Wood
October 28, 2017 NGC 6369: The Little Ghost Nebula
Image Credit: Hubble Heritage Team , NASA
October 29, 2017 · Copyrighted Night on a Spooky Planet
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Vetter ( Nuits sacrées )
October 30, 2017 · Copyrighted Orionid Meteors from Orion
Image Credit & Copyright: Lu Shupei
October 31, 2017 · Copyrighted Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe
Illustration Credit & Copyright Tom Abel & Ralf Kaehler ( KIPAC , SLAC ), AMNHThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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