Astronomy Picture of the Day · January 2022

APOD, January 2022

31 entries from January 2022: 29 images and 2 videos. 24 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.

The Full Moon of 2021 January 1, 2022 · Copyrighted

The Full Moon of 2021

Image Credit & Copyright: Soumyadeep MukherjeeThe featured image shows four halo arcs surrounding the Moon -- as taken Spain in 2012. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 2, 2022 · Copyrighted

Quadruple Lunar Halo Over Winter Road

Image Credit & Copyright: Dani CaxeteThe picture shows a Comet Leonard sporting a very long ion tail as captured from the Canary Islands of Spain in late December. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 3, 2022 · Copyrighted

Comet Leonard's Long Tail

Image Credit & Copyright: Jan HattenbachThe featured image shows the Moons Rhea and Janus being the rings of Saturn as captured by the robotic Cassini mission in 2010. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 4, 2022

Moons Beyond Rings at Saturn

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , JPL , Cassini Imaging TeamThe featured image shows the position of the sun at sunrise from 2020 December to 2021 December from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 5, 2022 · Copyrighted

A Year of Sunrises

Image Credit & Copyright: Luca VanzellaThe Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star January 6, 2022 · Copyrighted

The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star

Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi ( TWAN )Ecstatic Solar Eclipse January 7, 2022 · Copyrighted

Ecstatic Solar Eclipse

Image Credit & Copyright: Annie Schmidt ( Point Blue Conservation Science )Quadrantids of the North January 8, 2022 · Copyrighted

Quadrantids of the North

Image Credit & Copyright: Cheng LuoThe featured image shows Jupiter full face including the Great Red Spot as captured by Hubble in 2016. January 9, 2022

Hubble's Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble , OPAL Program, STScI; Processing: Karol MasztalerzComet Leonard's Tail Wag January 10, 2022 · Video

Comet Leonard's Tail Wag

Image Credit: NASA , NRL , STEREO -A; Processing: B. GallagherThe featured image shows the belt of three stars in the constellation of Orion with surrounding dust and gas but with all of the other stars removed. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 11, 2022 · Copyrighted

Orion's Belt Region in Gas and Dust

Image Credit & Copyright: Matt Harbison ( Space4Everybody ), Marathon Remote Imaging ObservatoryThe featured image shows Comet Leonard as it appeared just before sunset on 2022 January 2 from Siding Spring, Australia. The comet shows a bright green coma and a long and detailed ion tail. Please see the explanation for more detailed inf January 12, 2022 · Copyrighted

Comet Leonard Closeup from Australia

Image Credit & Copyright: Blake Estes ( itelescope.net )Supernova Remnant Simeis 147 January 13, 2022 · Copyrighted

Supernova Remnant Simeis 147

Image Credit & Copyright: Jason DainNGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy January 14, 2022 · Copyrighted

NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy

Image Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson and Mike SelbyGalileo's Europa January 15, 2022

Galileo's Europa

Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , SETI Institute , Cynthia Phillips, Marty ValentiThe featured image shows a cumulonimbus cloud retreating at sunset in 2013 over Alberta, Canada. The large cloud exhibits mammatus clouds at the near end and rain at the far end. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 16, 2022 · Copyrighted

A Retreating Thunderstorm at Sunset

Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Dyer ( The Amazing Sky )The featured image shows a dark nebula complex involving thick dust. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 17, 2022 · Copyrighted

Chamaeleon Dark Nebulas

Image Credit & Copyright: Jarmo Ruuth , Telescope Live , Heaven’s Mirror ObservatoryThe featured image shows the a southern skyscape ranging from the constellation of Orion on the far left to the Southern Cross on the far right. The panorama was acquired during the last days of 2021 from the Bombo Headland Quarry Geologica January 18, 2022 · Copyrighted

From Orion to the Southern Cross

Image Credit & Copyright: Lucy Yunxi HuThe featured image shows the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy: the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 19, 2022 · Copyrighted

M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

Image Credit: Subaru ( NAOJ ), Hubble ( NASA / <a ESA ), Mayall ( NSF ); Processing & Copyright: R. Gendler & R. CromanNGC 7822 in Cepheus January 20, 2022 · Copyrighted

NGC 7822 in Cepheus

Image Credit & Copyright: Mark CarterYoung Star Jet MHO 2147 January 21, 2022

Young Star Jet MHO 2147

Image Credit & License: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA Acknowledgments: L. Ferrero (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)The Full Moon and the Dancer January 22, 2022 · Copyrighted

The Full Moon and the Dancer

Image Credit & Copyright: Elena PinnaThe featured image shows Saturn, its rings nearly edge-on, shadows of its rings on the planet's face, and the ice-moon Tethys. The image was taken by Cassini in 2005. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 23, 2022

Saturn, Tethys, Rings, and Shadows

Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASAThe featured image shows the star Rigel and the nearby Witch Head Nebula, which is a reflection nebula illuminated by Rigel. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 24, 2022 · Copyrighted

Rigel and the Witch Head Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: José MtanousVideo: Comet Leonard over One Hour January 25, 2022 · Video · Copyrighted

Video: Comet Leonard over One Hour

Video Credit & Copyright: Matipon Tangmatitham ( NARIT ); Text: Matipon TangmatithamThe featured image shows the bright star Antares and the other bright stars, dark dust, and colorful gas clouds that appear near it, directionally. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 26, 2022 · Copyrighted

Stars, Dust, and Gas Near Antares

Image Credit & Copyright: Mario Cogo ( Galax Lux )South of Orion January 27, 2022 · Copyrighted

South of Orion

Image Credit & Copyright: Vikas ChanderWestern Moon, Eastern Sea January 28, 2022 · Copyrighted

Western Moon, Eastern Sea

Image Credit & Copyright: Tom GlennThe Fornax Cluster of Galaxies January 29, 2022 · Copyrighted

The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies

Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi , Angus Lau, Tommy TseThe featured image shows the Sun with a large eruptive prominence on the upper left. The image was taken with NASA's SOHO satellite in 1999. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 30, 2022

A Solar Prominence from SOHO

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , SOHO-EIT ConsortiumThe featured image shows the northern part of the Great Carina Nebula featuring the Gabriela Mistral Nebula as well as other nebulae and star clusters. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. January 31, 2022 · Copyrighted

Carina Nebula North

Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Colombari

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