Astronomy Picture of the Day · April 2021
APOD, April 2021
30 entries from April 2021: 23 images and 7 videos. 12 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
April 1, 2021 · Video Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station
Video Credit: ISAA , NASA , Expedition 57 Crew (ISS); Processing: Riccardo Rossi (ISAA, AstronautiCAST ); Music: Inspiring Adventure Cinematic Background by Maryna
April 2, 2021 · Copyrighted NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble
Image Credit & Copyright: Acquisition – Eric Benson , Processing – Dietmar Hager
April 3, 2021 Ingenuity on Sol 39
Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS
April 4, 2021 In, Through, and Beyond Saturn's Rings
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , ISS , JPL , ESA , NASA
April 5, 2021 Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Exploded Star
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA , Z. Levay
April 6, 2021 · Copyrighted Mars and the Pleiades Beyond Vinegar Hill
Image Credit & Copyright: Kristine Richer
April 7, 2021 Threads of NGC 1947
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz
April 8, 2021 3D Ingenuity
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS , ASU
April 9, 2021 · Copyrighted Messier 106
Image Credit: NASA , Hubble Legacy Archive , Kitt Peak National Observatory ; Amateur Data & Processing Copyright : Robert Gendler
April 10, 2021 · Copyrighted Zodiacal Night
Image Credit & Copyright: Jean-Francois Graffand
April 11, 2021 · Video · Copyrighted When Black Holes Collide
Video Credit & Copyright: Simulating Extreme Spacetimes Collaboration
April 12, 2021 · Copyrighted Alnitak and the Flame Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Team ARO
April 13, 2021 Confirmed Muon Wobble Remains Unexplained
Image Credit: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ; Photographer: Reidar Hahn
April 14, 2021 · Copyrighted The Pencil Nebula Supernova Shock Wave
Image Credit & Copyright: Greg Turgeon & Utkarsh Mishra
April 15, 2021 The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
April 16, 2021 · Video The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Scientific Visualization Credit: NASA , Goddard Space Flight Center , Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell – Text: Francis Reddy
April 17, 2021 Inside the Flame Nebula
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , IPAC Infrared Science Archive – Processing: Amal Biju
April 18, 2021 · Copyrighted Rainbow Airglow over the Azores
Image Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro ( TWAN ); Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
April 19, 2021 The Galactic Center in Infrared
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Spitzer Space Telescope , Susan Stolovy ( SSC/Caltech ) et al.; Reprocessing: Judy Schmidt
April 20, 2021 · Video Ingenuity: First Flight over Mars
Video Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , ASU , MSSS
April 21, 2021 Centaurus A's Warped Magnetic Fields
Image Credit: Optical: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Wide Field Imager; Submillimeter: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/ESO/Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)/A.Weiss et al; X-ray and Infrared: NASA/Chandra/R. Kraft; JPL-Caltech/J. Keene; Text: Joan Schmelz ( USRA )
April 22, 2021 Planet Earth at Twilight
Image Credit: ISS Expedition 2 Crew , Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth , NASA
April 23, 2021 · Video Flying Over the Earth at Night II
Video Credit: NASA , Gateway to Astronaut Photography , ISS Expedition 53 ; Music: The Low Seas (The 126ers)
April 24, 2021 · Video · Copyrighted Streak and Plume from SpaceX Crew-2 Launch
Video Credit & Copyright: Eric Holland
April 25, 2021 Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
Image Credit: R. Sahai ( JPL ) et al., Hubble Heritage Team, ESA , NASA
April 26, 2021 · Copyrighted A Sagittarius Triplet
Image Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Rodrigues Santos
April 27, 2021 · Video Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star
Video Illustration Credit: DESY , Science Communication Lab
April 28, 2021 · Copyrighted North Star: Polaris and Surrounding Dust
Image Credit & Copyright: Bray Falls
April 29, 2021 Apollo 17: The Crescent Earth
Image Credit: Apollo 17 , NASA ; Restoration – Toby Ord
April 30, 2021 · Copyrighted Pink and the Perigee Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Alice RossThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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