Astronomy Picture of the Day · May 2021
APOD, May 2021
31 entries from May 2021: 30 images and 1 videos. 20 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
May 1, 2021 Perseverance from Ingenuity
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Ingenuity
May 2, 2021 · Copyrighted Clouds of the Carina Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: John Ebersole
May 3, 2021 Apollo 11: Earth, Moon, Spaceship
Image Credit: NASA , Apollo 11 ; Restoration – Toby Ord
May 4, 2021 · Copyrighted Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
Image Credit & Copyright: Mehmet Ergün
May 5, 2021 · Copyrighted STEVE over Copper Harbor
Image Credit & Copyright: MaryBeth Kiczenski
May 6, 2021 · Copyrighted Windblown NGC 3199
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby and Roberto Colombari
May 7, 2021 Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch
Image Credit: NASA
May 8, 2021 · Copyrighted Deepscape at Yacoraite
Image Credit & Copyright: Franco Meconi
May 9, 2021 · Copyrighted Horsehead and Orion Nebulas
Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Colombari & Federico Pelliccia
May 10, 2021 · Copyrighted Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158
Image Credit & Copyright: CFHT , Coelum , MegaCam , J.-C. Cuillandre ( CFHT ) & G. A. Anselmi ( Coelum )
May 11, 2021 · Copyrighted Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru
Image Credit & Copyright: Park Liu
May 12, 2021 A Meteor and the Gegenschein
Image Credit: J.C. Casado , StarryEarth , EELabs , TWAN
May 13, 2021 · Copyrighted The Comet, the Whale, and the Hockey Stick
Image Credit & Copyright: Grand Mesa Observatory , Terry Hancock / Tom Masterson
May 14, 2021 · Copyrighted M104: The Sombrero Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Bray Falls
May 15, 2021 The Southern Cliff in the Lagoon
Image Credit: Julia I. Arias and Rodolfo H. Barba’ ( Dept. Fisica, Univ. de La Serena ), ICATE-CONICET , Gemini Observatory/AURA
May 16, 2021 NGC 602 and Beyond
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ) – ESA /Hubble Collaboration
May 17, 2021 · Copyrighted NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge
Image Credit & Copyright: CFHT , Coelum , MegaCam , J.-C. Cuillandre ( CFHT ) & G. A. Anselmi ( Coelum )
May 18, 2021 Jets from the Necklace Nebula
Image Credit: ESA , Hubble , NASA ; Processing: K. Noll
May 19, 2021 · Copyrighted The Jellyfish and Mars
Image Credit & Copyright: Jason Guenzel
May 20, 2021 · Copyrighted M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Dufour
May 21, 2021 Utopia on Mars
Image Credit: NASA , The Viking Project , M. Dale-Bannister ( Washington University )
May 22, 2021 · Copyrighted Markarian's Chain
Image Credit & Copyright: Ginge Anvik
May 23, 2021 · Copyrighted The Galaxy Tree
Image Credit & Copyright: César Vega Toledano ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
May 24, 2021 · Copyrighted Lightning Eclipse from the Planet of the Goats
Image Credit & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos ( GreekSky )
May 25, 2021 · Video The Moon During a Total Lunar Eclipse
Video Credit: Wang Letian & Zhang Jiajie
May 26, 2021 The Outburst Clouds of Star AG Car
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , STScI ; Processing: Judy Schmidt ; Text: Anders Nyholm
May 27, 2021 · Copyrighted Mid-Eclipse and Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: John Kraus
May 28, 2021 · Copyrighted Total Lunar Eclipse from Sydney
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Ward ( Barden Ridge Observatory )
May 29, 2021 Lunar Dust and Duct Tape
Image Credit: Apollo 17 , NASA
May 30, 2021 · Copyrighted Aurora over Clouds
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniele Boffelli
May 31, 2021 · Copyrighted Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Space Science Institute , CassiniThumbnails 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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