Astronomy Picture of the Day · March 2024

APOD, March 2024

31 entries from March 2024: 29 images and 2 videos. 23 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.

Odysseus and The Dish March 1, 2024 · Copyrighted

Odysseus and The Dish

Image Credit & Copyright: John Sarkissian (ATNF Parkes Radio Observatory)Odysseus on the Moon March 2, 2024

Odysseus on the Moon

Image Credit: Intuitive MachinesA Total Solar Eclipse Close-Up in Real Time March 3, 2024 · Video · Copyrighted

A Total Solar Eclipse Close-Up in Real Time

Video Credit & Copyright: Jun Ho Oh ( KAIST , HuboLab ); Music: Flowing Air by Mattia Vlad MorleoNumerous thin pillars of light connect a landscape filled with snow to a star filled sky. The Big Dipper can be seen through the colorful pillars. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 4, 2024 · Copyrighted

Light Pillars Over Inner Mongolia

Image Credit & Copyright: N. D. LiaoA complex jumble of colorful gas and dark dust dominate a bright field of stars. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 5, 2024 · Copyrighted

NGC 2170: Angel Nebula Abstract Art

Image Credit & Copyright: David MoultonA starfield is shown with an unusual horizontal line segment running throug the middle. The segment is an edge-on galaxy and many brown dust filaments are visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 6, 2024

M102: Edge-on Disk Galaxy

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble ; Processing: Ehsan EbrahimianThe Crew-8 Nebula March 7, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Crew-8 Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Michael SeeleyThe Tarantula Zone March 8, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Tarantula Zone

Image Credit & Copyright: Processing – Robert Gendler , Roberto Colombari Data – Hubble Tarantula Treasury , European Southern Observatory , James Webb Space Telescope , Amateur SourcesComet Pons-Brooks in Northern Spring March 9, 2024 · Copyrighted

Comet Pons-Brooks in Northern Spring

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in OpavaA field of snow leads up to a dark circle. Light rays eminate from this circle. In front, standing on the snow field is a person and to the left is a folding chair and a bag. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 10, 2024 · Copyrighted

A Total Eclipse at the End of the World

Image Credit & Copyright: Fred Bruenjes ( moonglow.net )Several images of a full moon setting are superposed. The moon images are nearly white near the top, but turn orange and then are covered by low clouds near the horizon. Unusually, the setting moon images line up almost vertically. In the f March 11, 2024 · Copyrighted

A Full Plankton Moon

Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in OpavaA field of snow is shown, lined with trees along the back. Above the horizon is an unusual white spiral cloud. Stars dot the background, and faint green and red aurora are also visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed informati March 12, 2024 · Copyrighted

A Galaxy-Shaped Rocket Exhaust Spiral

Credit & Copyright: Seung Hye YangA starfield features a large nebula, mostly red, partly blue, which seems to have the shape of a bird. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 13, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Seagull Nebula

Credit & Copyright: Gianni LacroceMoon Pi and Mountain Shadow March 14, 2024 · Copyrighted

Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow

Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Lopez ( El Cielo de Canarias )Portrait of NGC 1055 March 15, 2024 · Copyrighted

Portrait of NGC 1055

Image Credit & Copyright: Dave DoctorELT and the Milky Way March 16, 2024

ELT and the Milky Way

Image Credit & License: European Southern Observatory – Courtesy: Jens ScheidtmannA blue spiral galaxy appears to be colliding -- and possibly moving through -- a dusty brown galaxy. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 17, 2024 · Copyrighted

NGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Legacy Archive ; Processing & Copyright: Rudy PohlA comet is pictured with a really long and wavy ion tail. The front of the comet -- its coma -- appears to be a spiral. The coma is green, the tail is faint blue, and part of the swirl is red. Please see the explanation for more detailed in March 18, 2024 · Copyrighted

Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Coma

Image Credit & Copyright: Jan Erik VallestadThe sun sets in the distance at the horizon end of a long road over open country. The sunset is very orange, as is the surrounding sky. Telephone poles line the right side of the road. Please see the explanation for more detailed informatio March 19, 2024 · Copyrighted

A Picturesque Equinox Sunset

Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Dyer , Amazingsky.com, TWANTwo large galaxies are pictured. On the left is a distorted spiral galaxy, while on the right is a relatively featureless yellow disk galaxy. Together, these galaxies may look, to some, like a pair of eyes. Please see the explanation for mo March 20, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Eyes in Markarian's Galaxy Chain

Image Credit & Copyright: Mike SelbyThe Leo Trio March 21, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Leo Trio

Image Credit & Copyright: Steve CannistraPhobos: Moon over Mars March 22, 2024

Phobos: Moon over Mars

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Zolt Levay ( STScI ) – Acknowledgment: J.Bell ( ASU ) and M.Wolff ( SSI )Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited March 23, 2024

Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited

Image Credit: HiRISE , MRO , LPL (U. Arizona) , NASAPart of the the Earth is pictured with blue seas and white clouds. On the upper left is a deep space dark background. On the Earth a large dark spot is apparent. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 24, 2024 · Copyrighted

Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth

Image Credit: Mir 27 Crew ; Copyright: CNESSonified: The Jellyfish Nebula Supernova Remnant March 25, 2024 · Video

Sonified: The Jellyfish Nebula Supernova Remnant

Image Credit: X-ray (blue): Chandra ( NASA ) & ROSAT ( ESA ); Optical (red): DSS ( NSF ); Radio (green): VLA ( NRAO , NSF ); Sonification: NASA , CXC , SAO , K. Arcand ; SYSTEM Sounds: M. Russo , A. Santaguida )A large comet is shown with its head near the right and a light blue flowing ion tail flowing across into the rest of the image. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. March 26, 2024

Comet Pons-Brooks' Ion Tail

Image Credit & License: James PeirceA picture filled with fuzzy yellow spots is presented. All of the yellow spots are galaxies, and most of the galaxies are members of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies. The two bright blue dots are foreground stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Pl March 27, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Coma Cluster of Galaxies

Image Credit & Copyright: Joe HuaMillions of Stars in Omega Centauri March 28, 2024 · Copyrighted

Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri

Image Credit & Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco and Mirco TurraGalileo's Europa March 29, 2024

Galileo's Europa

Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , SETI Institute , Cynthia Phillips, Marty ValentiMedieval Astronomy from Melk Abbey March 30, 2024 · Copyrighted

Medieval Astronomy from Melk Abbey

Image Credit: Paul Beck ( Univ. Vienna ), Georg Zotti ( Vienna Inst. Arch. Science ) Copyright: Library of Melk Abbey, Frag. 229A totally eclipsed Sun is seen in the distance. Around the eclipse is a dark region dipping down from above. Below that are clouds and below that is the wing and engine of an airplane. Please see the explanation for more detailed informatio March 31, 2024 · Copyrighted

Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek ( ESO Photo Ambassador , Inst. of Physics in Opava ) ; Acknowledgement: Xavier Jubier

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