Astronomy Picture of the Day · January 2021
APOD, January 2021
31 entries from January 2021: 29 images and 2 videos. 19 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
January 1, 2021 · Copyrighted Galaxies and the South Celestial Pole
Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek , Josef Kujal
January 2, 2021 · Copyrighted 21st Century Wet Collodion Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Smolinsky
January 3, 2021 · Copyrighted A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland
Image Credit & Copyright: Hallgrimur P. Helgason ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
January 4, 2021 · Video · Copyrighted Sprite Lightning at 100,000 Frames Per Second
Video Credit & Copyright: Matthew G McHarg, Jacob L Harley, Thomas Ashcraft , Hans Nielsen
January 5, 2021 · Copyrighted The Small Cloud of Magellan
Image Credit & Copyright: José Mtanous
January 6, 2021 Striped Sand Dunes on Mars
Image Credit: HiRISE , MRO , LPL (U. Arizona) , NASA ; Processing: Włodek Głażewski ; Text: Alex R. Howe ( NASA / USRA , Reader’s History of SciFi Podcast)
January 7, 2021 · Copyrighted Total Solar Eclipse 2020
Image Credit & Copyright: Miloslav Druckmuller , Andreas Moller, ( Brno University of Technology ),
January 8, 2021 · Copyrighted NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby, Leonardo Orazi
January 9, 2021 Titan: Moon over Saturn
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Space Science Institute
January 10, 2021 Star Cluster R136 Breaks Out
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , & F. Paresce ( INAF-IASF ), R. O’Connell ( U. Virginia ) et al.
January 11, 2021 · Video Moon Phases in 2021
Video Credit: Data: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ; Animation: NASA ‘s Scientific Visualization Studio ; Music: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 ( Johann Sebastian Bach ), by Kevin MacLeod via Incompetech
January 12, 2021 · Copyrighted A Historic Brazilian Constellation
Image Credit & Copyright: Rodrigo Guerra
January 13, 2021 · Copyrighted Arches Across an Arctic Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Giulio Cobianchi
January 14, 2021 Aurora Slathers Up the Sky
Image Credit: Jack Fischer , Expedition 52 , NASA
January 15, 2021 A Plutonian Landscape
Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins Univ./APL , Southwest Research Institute
January 16, 2021 The Mountains of NGC 2174
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )
January 17, 2021 Jets from Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A
Image Credit: ESO / WFI (visible); MPIfR / ESO / APEX /A. Weiss et al. (microwave); NASA / CXC / CfA /R. Kraft et al. (X-ray)
January 18, 2021 · Copyrighted The Medulla Nebula Supernova Remnant
Image Credit & Copyright: Russell Croman
January 19, 2021 · Copyrighted A Lunar Corona with Jupiter and Saturn
Image Credit & Copyright: Alessandra Masi
January 20, 2021 The Magnetic Field of the Whirlpool Galaxy
Image Credit: NASA , SOFIA , HAWC+ , Alejandro S. Borlaff ; JPL-Caltech , ESA , Hubble ; Text: Jayanne English ( U. Manitoba )
January 21, 2021 · Copyrighted M78 Wide Field
Image Credit & Copyright: Wes Higgins
January 22, 2021 · Copyrighted The Milky Ring
Image Credit & Copyright: Alvin Wu
January 23, 2021 Recycling Cassiopeia A
Image Credit: X-ray – NASA , CXC, SAO ; Optical – NASA,STScI
January 24, 2021 · Copyrighted Massive Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble , Subaru ; Composition & Copyright: Roberto Colombari
January 25, 2021 · Copyrighted Southern Cross over Chilean Volcano
Image Credit & Copyright: Tomáš Slovinský
January 26, 2021 · Copyrighted Central NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble ; Processing & Copyright: Daniel Nobre
January 27, 2021 The Vertical Magnetic Field of NGC 5775
Image Credit: NRAO , NASA , ESA , Hubble ; Processing & Text: Jayanne English ( U. Manitoba )
January 28, 2021 · Copyrighted Messier 66 Close Up
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble ; Processing & Copyright: Leo Shatz
January 29, 2021 · Copyrighted North American Nightscape
Composite Image Credit & Copyright: Liron Gertsman
January 30, 2021 · Copyrighted Southern Sky from 38,000 Feet
Image Credit & Copyright: Ralf Rohner
January 31, 2021 Asteroids in the Distance
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble ; R. Evans & K. Stapelfeldt ( JPL )Thumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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