Astronomy Picture of the Day · August 2020
APOD, August 2020
30 entries from August 2020: 26 images and 4 videos. 17 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
August 1, 2020 · Copyrighted The Elephant's Trunk Nebula in Cepheus
Image Credit & Copyright: Chad Leader
August 2, 2020 · Copyrighted Two Worlds, One Sun
Left Image Credit & Copyright: Damia Bouic ; Right Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS ; Digital processing: Damia Bouic
August 3, 2020 · Copyrighted Comet NEOWISE over Vikos Gorge
Image Credit & Copyright: Constantine Emmanouilidi
August 4, 2020 · Copyrighted NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans
Image Credit & Copyright: Processing: Robert Gendler & Roberto Colombari Data: Hubble Legacy Archive , European Southern Observatory
August 5, 2020 · Video · Copyrighted Picture Rocks Sun Dagger
Video Credit & Copyright: Martha Schaefer, Brad Schaefer , Jim Stamm; Music & License: Awakening ( Wojciech Usarewicz ), Lone Tree Music
August 6, 2020 · Copyrighted Messier 20 and 21
Image Credit & Copyright: Emanuele Petrilli
August 7, 2020 · Copyrighted The Pipe Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Jose Mtanous
August 8, 2020 Crescent Saturn
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , SSI , Cassini Imaging Team
August 9, 2020 The Origin of Elements
Image Credit & License: Wikipedia : Cmglee ; Data: Jennifer Johnson ( OSU )
August 10, 2020 · Copyrighted Perseids from Perseus
Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
August 11, 2020 Churning Clouds on Jupiter
Image Credit & License: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS ; Processing: Kevin M. Gill
August 12, 2020 · Copyrighted The Shifting Tails of Comet NEOWISE
Image Credit & Copyright: Ignacio Llorens
August 14, 2020 · Copyrighted NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble , HLA ; Reprocessing & Copyright: Jesús M. Vargas
August 15, 2020 · Copyrighted Mars at the Moon's Edge
Image Credit & Copyright: Sergio Scauso
August 16, 2020 NGC 6814: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy from Hubble
Image Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA ; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
August 17, 2020 · Copyrighted Perseids Around the Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Jingyi Zhang
August 18, 2020 TYC 8998-760-1: Multiple Planets around a Sun Like Star
Image Credit: ESO , A. Bohn et al.
August 19, 2020 · Video The Sun Rotating
Video Credit: SDO , NASA ; Digital Composition: Kevin M. Gill
August 20, 2020 Seeing Titan
Image Credit: VIMS Team , U. Arizona , U. Nantes , ESA , NASA
August 21, 2020 · Copyrighted Unwinding M51
Image Credit & Copyright: Data – Hubble Heritage Project , Unwinding – Paul Howell
August 22, 2020 · Copyrighted Yogi And Friends In 3D
Image Credit & Copyright: IMP Team , JPL , NASA
August 23, 2020 The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble
Image Credit: C. R. O’Dell , ( Vanderbilt ) et al. ESA , NOAO , NASA
August 24, 2020 · Copyrighted Crescent Moon HDR
Image Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro ( TWAN , Dark Sky Alqueva )
August 25, 2020 · Video Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk
Visualization Credit: NASA ‘s Goddard Space Flight Center , Jeremy Schnittman
August 26, 2020 · Copyrighted Cygnus Skyscape
Image Credit & Copyright: Alistair Symon
August 27, 2020 · Copyrighted Shell Galaxies in Pisces
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh
August 28, 2020 The Valley of Orion
Visualization Credit: NASA , ESA , F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, J. DePasquale, L. Frattare, M. Robberto, M. Gennaro ( STScI ) and R. Hurt ( Caltech/IPAC )
August 29, 2020 Martian Chiaroscuro
Image Credit: HiRISE , MRO , LPL (U. Arizona) , NASA
August 30, 2020 NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars
Image Credit: NASA , ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz ( IAA , Spain); Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin ( ESA/Hubble )
August 31, 2020 · Video SS 433: Binary Star Micro-Quasar
Animation Credit: DESY , Science Communication LabThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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