Astronomy Picture of the Day · September 2024

APOD, September 2024

30 entries from September 2024: 30 images and 0 videos. 22 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.

The featured image shows a crescent Moon over a city and volcano with a flat cloud running through the center that makes the Moon look a bit like the planet Saturn. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. September 1, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Moon Dressed Like Saturn

Image Credit & Copyright: Francisco SojuelThe featured image shows the surface of the Sun with a flowing texture in red light. Above the Sun's surface an unusual triangular prominence hovers. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. September 2, 2024 · Copyrighted

A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun

Image Credit & Copyright: Andrea VanoniThe featured image shows an orange sky with clouds across the bottom and several bright stars near the top center. Just at the top of the cloud deck on the left is a half-lit Moon. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. September 3, 2024 · Copyrighted

Quarter Moon and Sister Stars

Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Dyer , TWANThe featured image shows a starfield with a two- colored nebula in the center. The nebula is colored mostly red and blue. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. September 4, 2024 · Copyrighted

NGC 6995: The Bat Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Mike TaivalmaaNGC 247 and Friends September 5, 2024 · Copyrighted

NGC 247 and Friends

Image Credit & Copyright: Acquisition – Eric Benson , Processing – Dietmar HagerRinged Ice Giant Neptune September 6, 2024

Ringed Ice Giant Neptune

Image Credit: NASA , ESA , CSA , STScI , NIRCamSmall Moon Deimos September 7, 2024

Small Moon Deimos

Image Credit: HiRISE , MRO , LPL (U. Arizona) , NASAThe featured image shows a spiral galaxy and a smaller oval galaxy in a dark starfield. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. September 8, 2024 · Copyrighted

M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

Image Credit: Subaru ( NAOJ ), Hubble ( NASA / <a ESA ), Mayall ( NSF ); Processing & Copyright: R. Gendler & R. CromanA panoramic view of the surface of Mars. Several landforms are visible including craters and volcanos. A small dark moon is superposed in front of part of the surface. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. September 9, 2024

Mars: Moon, Craters, and Volcanos

Image Credit: ESA , DLR , FU Berlin , Mars Express ; Processing & CC BY 2.0 License : Andrea Luck ; h/t : Phil PlaitThe featured image a starfield that glows gold. On the left is the dark horsehead nebula, while on the right is the blue-glowing Orion Nebula. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. September 10, 2024 · Copyrighted

Horsehead and Orion Nebulas

Image Credit & Copyright: Antoine & Dalia GrelinA starry sky is shown with the busy central band of our Milky Way Galaxy showing diagonally from the upper left. Mountains are on the horizon, with trees and a stream running up from the foreground. Please see the explanation for more detai September 11, 2024

A Night Sky over the Tatra Mountains

Image Credit: Marcin Rosadziński ; Text: Natalia Lewandowska ( SUNY Oswego )Young Star Cluster NGC 1333 September 12, 2024

Young Star Cluster NGC 1333

Image Credit: ESA/Webb , NASA , CSA , A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. JayawardhanaAurora Australis and the International Space Station September 13, 2024

Aurora Australis and the International Space Station

Image Credit: NASA , ISS Expedition 71The Moona Lisa September 14, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Moona Lisa

Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Sarcone and Marcella Giulia PaceEarth's Moon is shown just beyond a rocky hill. The Moon is near full phase. On the hill the silhouette of a person looking through a telescope can be seen. A rollover darkens part of the Moon that looks to some like a human face. Please se September 15, 2024 · Copyrighted

Find the Man in the Moon

Image Credit & Copyright: Dani CaxeteThe cratered surface of a large body is shown: Mercury. The largest feature visible is a large impact crater with two rings, near the image center. Arms from the BepiColumbo spacecraft that took the image are seen extending into the image f September 16, 2024

Mercury's Vivaldi Crater from BepiColombo

Image Credit: ESA , JAXA , BepiColombo , MTMA starfield is shown with a a bright orange nebula in the center. The nebula is filamentary and takes up much of the bottom and middle of the frame. The top is most dark with some bright stars. Please see the explanation for more detailed i September 17, 2024 · Copyrighted

Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Richard McInnisA starfield is shown with a long blue-glowing nebula taking up much of the frame. The nebula appears, to some, similar to a fish or a mermaid. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. September 18, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Mermaid Nebula Supernova Remnant

Image Credit & Copyright: Neil Corke ; Text: Natalia Lewandowska ( SUNY Oswego )The Dark Seahorse of Cepheus September 19, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Dark Seahorse of Cepheus

Image Credit & Copyright: Davide BroiseA Hazy Harvest Moon September 20, 2024 · Copyrighted

A Hazy Harvest Moon

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in OpavaSunrise Shadows in the Sky September 21, 2024 · Copyrighted

Sunrise Shadows in the Sky

Image Credit & Copyright: Emili VilamalaA picture of the Sun setting at the end of a long city street is shown. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. September 22, 2024 · Copyrighted

Chicagohenge: Equinox in an Aligned City

Image Credit & Copyright: Anthony ArteseA picture shows a starfield with three prominent objects. A blue spiral galaxy is on the lower left and another blue spiral is just left of center. Toward the upper right is a light-colored comet with a tail fading toward in the image botto September 23, 2024 · Copyrighted

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Approaches

Image Credit & Copyright: Brian Valente & Greg SteinA brown dusty nebula is shown in front of a star field. The nebula looks to some like a baboon, with red emission stemming from the mouth and blue reflection from the eyes. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. September 24, 2024 · Copyrighted

NGC 6727: The Rampaging Baboon Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Alpha Zhang & Ting YuA sunrise sky is shown over water and trees. The horizon is orange and the top of the image is deep blue. On the far right vertical bands are shown becoming progressively darker. In each band a comet appears, with the comet appearing increa September 25, 2024 · Copyrighted

Comet A3 Through an Australian Sunrise

Image Credit & Copyright: Lucy Yunxi HuThe Great Globular Cluster in Hercules September 26, 2024 · Copyrighted

The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

Image Credit & Copyright: Jan Beckmann, Julian Zoller, Lukas Eisert, Wolfgang HummelStellar Streams in the Local Universe September 27, 2024

Stellar Streams in the Local Universe

Image Credit: David Martinez Delgado et al.Rocket Eclipse at Sunset September 28, 2024 · Copyrighted

Rocket Eclipse at Sunset

Image Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper ( Launch Photography )A famous Pleiades star cluster is shown but showing numerous parallel and curved filaments in different colors. The image is in several colors of infrared light. A rollover image shows the cluster in visible light with its familiar blue lig September 29, 2024 · Copyrighted

Seven Dusty Sisters

Image Credit: WISE , IRSA , NASA ; Processing & Copyright : Francesco AntonucciA picture shows clouds across the bottom and a dark night sky across the top. In the middle is a band of orange sky. City lights are visible on the right through gaps in the clouds. In the center of the upper sky is a comet with its tail po September 30, 2024 · Copyrighted

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over Mexico

Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Korona

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