Astronomy Picture of the Day · March 2022

APOD, March 2022

31 entries from March 2022: 30 images and 1 videos. 19 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.

The featured image shows a nightscape over China featuring bands of zodiacal light, on the left, and the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, on the right. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 1, 2022 · Copyrighted

Dueling Bands in the Night

Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai ( TWAN )The featured image shows the Sun undergoing a large eruption in mid-Feburary where a large prominence is visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 2, 2022

Record Prominence Imaged by Solar Orbiter

Image Credit: Solar Orbiter , EUI Team , ESA & NASA ; h/t: Bum-Suk YeomSpiral Galaxy NGC 2841 March 3, 2022 · Copyrighted

Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841

Image Credit & Copyright: Vitali PelenjowThe Multiwavelength Crab March 4, 2022

The Multiwavelength Crab

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , G. Dubner (IAFE, CONICET-University of Buenos Aires) et al.; A. Loll et al.; T. Temim et al.; F. Seward et al.; VLA/NRAO/AUI/NSF; Chandra/CXC; Spitzer/JPL-Caltech; XMM-Newton/ESA; Hubble/ STScIInterstellar Comet 2I Borisov March 5, 2022

Interstellar Comet 2I Borisov

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and D. Jewitt ( UCLA ) et al.An image of the Sun in three bands of ultraviolet light showing the transit circle of Venus, a deep coronal hole, and Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 6, 2022

Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun

Image Credit: NASA / SDO & the AIA, EVE, and HMI teams; Digital Composition: Peter L. DoveThe featured image shows the the part of the constellation of Orion where the Horsehead and Flame Nebulas reside. The gaseous wisps above the Horsehead can appear, in this deep exposure, to be a lion's head. Please see the explanation for m March 7, 2022 · Copyrighted

A Lion in Orion

Image Credit & Copyright: Maroun MahfoudThe featured image shows Moon in inverted colors, with the dark parts appearing bright, and the bright parts appearing dark. More surface detail is visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 8, 2022 · Copyrighted

Moon in Inverted Colors

Image Credit & Copyright: Dawid GlawdzinThe featured image shows a penny-sized rock on Mars discovered by the Curiosity Rover in late February 2022. The rock is unusual because it has several appendages that make it appear a bit like a flower. Please see the explanation for more March 9, 2022

A Flower-Shaped Rock on Mars

Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSSGlobular Star Cluster 47 Tuc March 10, 2022 · Copyrighted

Globular Star Cluster 47 Tuc

Image Credit & Copyright: Bernard MillerWhen Rainbows Smile March 11, 2022 · Copyrighted

When Rainbows Smile

Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia PacePoint Reyes Milky Way March 12, 2022 · Copyrighted

Point Reyes Milky Way

Image Credit & Copyright: Dan ZafraThe featured image shows colorful airglow rings in the sky in front of a centered band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 13, 2022 · Copyrighted

Colorful Airglow Bands Surround Milky Way

Image Credit & Copyright: Xiaohan WangThe featured image shows bright globules at the end of an Eagle Nebula dust pillar. Called EGGS, these globules will likely form into stars. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 14, 2022 · Copyrighted

Star Formation in the Eagle Nebula

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble ; Processing & Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo & Diego GravineseAn image of the road to the La Silla Observatory in Chile with telescope on the horizon and stars, galaxies, planets, and airglow in the sky. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 15, 2022

A Road to the Stars

Image Credit: ESO , Petr Horálek ( ESO Photo Ambassador , Inst. of Physics in Opava )The featured illustration depicts the entire visible universe and representations of most of the notable objects in it. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 16, 2022

The Observable Universe

Illustration Credit & Licence: Wikipedia , Pablo Carlos BudassiCentaurus A March 17, 2022 · Copyrighted

Centaurus A

Image Credit & Copyright: David AlemazkourA Filament in Monoceros March 18, 2022 · Copyrighted

A Filament in Monoceros

Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgio Ferrari2MASS J17554042+6551277 March 19, 2022

2MASS J17554042+6551277

Image Credit : NASA , STScI , JWSTThe featured image depicts a sunset down a country road in Illinois. On an equinox, the Sun rises and sets directly down east-west running roads like this. Many towns have them. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 20, 2022 · Copyrighted

A Picturesque Equinox Sunset

Image Credit & Copyright: Roland ChristenAn image of the sky over the Netherlands taken every 15 minutes during 2021. Visible are night, day, solstices, equinoxes, moonglow, the blue hour, and more. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 21, 2022 · Copyrighted

The Sky in 2021

Image Credit & Copyright: Cees Bassa ( Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy )The featured image depicts a bright aurora captured earlier this month over Östersund, Sweden. To some, this coronal aurora may resemble a whale. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 22, 2022 · Copyrighted

A Whale of an Aurora over Swedish Forest

Image Credit & Copyright: Göran StrandThe featured image depicts the Bubble Nebula as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 23, 2022 · Copyrighted

The Bubble Nebula from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble ; Processing & Copyright: Mehmet Hakan ÖzsaraçArp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries March 24, 2022

Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries

Image Credit & License: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA Processing: T.A. Rector (Univ. Alaska Anchorage), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de MartinThe Medusa Nebula March 25, 2022 · Copyrighted

The Medusa Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Damien CannanePluto at Night March 26, 2022

Pluto at Night

Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins Univ./APL , Southwest Research InstituteThe featured image depicts Saturn's moon Titan as captured by the Cassini mission in 2014. The infrared image is colored green and includes bright sunglint from surface seas. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 27, 2022

Titan Seas Reflect Sunlight

Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , U. Arizona , U. IdahoAn image of the sky over a small island in the Maldives. The dark sky contains the Southern Cross and the stars Alpha Centauri and Hadar. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 28, 2022 · Copyrighted

Gems of a Maldivean Night

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek ( ESO Photo Ambassador , Inst. of Physics in Opava )An image of the sky over a Brazil featuring the bright planets Venus and Mars near to each other on the sky. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 29, 2022 · Copyrighted

Venus and Mars: Passing in the Night

Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Kiko FairbairnAnimation: Odd Radio Circles March 30, 2022 · Video

Animation: Odd Radio Circles

Credits: Illustration: Sam Moorfield ; Data: CSIRO , HST ( HUDF ), ESA , NASA ; Image: J. English ( U. Manitoba ), EMU , MeerKAT , DES ( CTIO ); Text: Jayanne EnglishExploring the Antennae March 31, 2022 · Copyrighted

Exploring the Antennae

Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager , Eric Benson

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