Astronomy Picture of the Day · May 2022
APOD, May 2022
31 entries from May 2022: 29 images and 2 videos. 22 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
May 1, 2022 First Horizon-Scale Image of a Black Hole
Image Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
May 2, 2022 · Copyrighted Partial Solar Eclipse over Argentina
Image Credit & Copyright: Aixa Andrada
May 3, 2022 · Copyrighted Mercury's Sodium Tail
Image Credit & Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer
May 4, 2022 · Copyrighted Planets Over Egyptian Pyramid
Image Credit & Copyright: Osama Fatehi
May 5, 2022 · Copyrighted NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble
Image Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby
May 6, 2022 · Copyrighted NGC 3572 and the Southern Tadpoles
Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Taylor
May 7, 2022 · Copyrighted Firefall by Moonlight
Image Credit & Copyright: Tara Mostofi
May 8, 2022 Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: The Inner Rings
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Space Telescope
May 9, 2022 · Video A Martian Eclipse: Phobos Crosses the Sun
Video Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , ASU MSSS , SSI
May 10, 2022 · Copyrighted NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefan Steve Bemmerl & Team Wolfatorium (Hakos/Namibia)
May 11, 2022 Gravity's Grin
Image Credit: X-ray – NASA / CXC / J. Irwin et al. ; Optical – NASA/STScI
May 12, 2022 Young Stars of NGC 346
Image Credit: NASA , ESA – acknowledgement: Antonella Nota (ESA/ STScI ) et al. ,
May 13, 2022 The Milky Way's Black Hole
Image Credit: X-ray – NASA/CXC/SAO , IR – NASA/HST/STScI ; Inset: Radio – Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
May 14, 2022 · Copyrighted Ice Halos by Moonlight
Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Dyer , Amazingsky.com, TWAN
May 15, 2022 · Copyrighted Colors of the Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace
May 16, 2022 · Copyrighted Milky Way over French Alp Hoodoos
Image Credit & Copyright: Benjamin Barakat
May 17, 2022 · Copyrighted NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
Image Credit & Copyright: Capture: Greg Turgeon ; Processing: Kiko Fairbairn
May 18, 2022 · Copyrighted A Jewel on the Flower Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Tomas Slovinsky
May 19, 2022 · Copyrighted A Digital Lunar Eclipse
Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Cain
May 20, 2022 · Copyrighted A View from Earth's Shadow
Image Credit & Copyright: Maxime Oudoux
May 21, 2022 · Copyrighted Planetary Nebula Abell 7
Image Credit & Copyright: Donald Waid , Ron Dilulio
May 22, 2022 A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun
Image Credit: NSO / AURA / NSF and USAF Research Laboratory
May 23, 2022 · Copyrighted The Once and Future Stars of Andromeda
Image Credit: NASA , NSF , NOAJ , Hubble , Subaru , Mayall , DSS , Spitzer ; Processing & Copyright: Robert Gendler & Russell Croman
May 24, 2022 · Copyrighted A Deep Sky Behind an Eclipsed Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Andrei Ionut Dascalu
May 25, 2022 · Copyrighted The Lively Center of the Lagoon Nebula
Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble ; Processing & Copyright: Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç
May 26, 2022 · Copyrighted NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge
Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Sherick
May 27, 2022 Titan: Moon over Saturn
Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Space Science Institute
May 28, 2022 · Copyrighted RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh
May 29, 2022 · Video Simulation TNG50: A Galaxy Cluster Forms
Video Credit: IllustrisTNG Project ; Visualization: Dylan Nelson ( Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics ) et al. Music: Symphony No. 5 ( Ludwig van Beethoven ), via YouTube Audio Library
May 30, 2022 · Copyrighted Red Crepuscular Rays from an Eclipse
Image Credit & Copyright: Fefo Bouvier
May 31, 2022 · Copyrighted Rocket Transits Rippling Sun
Image Credit & Copyright: Michael CainThumbnails 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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