Astronomy Picture of the Day · 1997
APOD 1997
364 entries from 1997: 364 images and 0 videos. 83 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 31, 1997 NGC 5307: A Symmetric Planetary Nebula
Credit: H. Bond (STScI) & R. Ciardullo (Penn State), WFPC2, HST, NASA
November 30, 1997 Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
Credit: Mariner 10, NASA
October 31, 1997 Haunting Mars
Credit: MGS Project, JPL, NASA
September 30, 1997 Half Dome Rock on Mars
Credit: IMP Team, JPL, NASA
August 31, 1997 Arp 230: Two Spirals in One?
Credit: J. A. Westphal (Caltech), STScI, NASA
July 31, 1997 Behind CL1358+62: A New Farthest Object
Credit: M. Franx (U. Groningen) & G. Illingworth (UCSC), WFPC2, HST, NASAThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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December 1997 (31)
- Dec 31 NGC 5307: A Symmetric Planetary Nebula
- Dec 30 NGC 7009: The Saturn Nebula
- Dec 29 The Milky Way in Infrared
- Dec 28 Pluto: The Frozen Planet
- Dec 27 Keck: The Largest Optical Telescopes
- Dec 26 West Of The Great Red Spot
- Dec 25 A Hale-Bopp Holiday Copyrighted
- Dec 24 30 Doradus Across the Spectrum
- Dec 23 M2-9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula
- Dec 22 David N. Schramm 1945-1997
- Dec 21 A Winter Solstice
- Dec 20 Apollo 16: Exploring Plum Crater
- Dec 19 NGC 6826: The Blinking Eye
- Dec 18 Gamma-Ray Burster
- Dec 17 Stonehenge: Ancient Monument to the Sun Copyrighted
- Dec 16 Night Lightning on Jupiter
- Dec 15 A Farewell to Tails Copyrighted
- Dec 14 The Radio Sky: Tuned to 408MHz
- Dec 13 The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
- Dec 12 Phi Persei: Double Star
- Dec 11 A Martian Lake Bed?
- Dec 10 Sprint the Flying Space Camera
- Dec 9 Mysterious Features on Ganymede
- Dec 8 The Trifid Nebula in Red, White and Blue Copyrighted
- Dec 7 A Distant Cluster of Galaxies
- Dec 6 A Quasar Portrait Gallery
- Dec 5 Seeing Through Galaxies
- Dec 4 A Sky Full Of Planets
- Dec 3 Runaway Star
- Dec 2 Micro-Quasar GRS1915 Puffs
- Dec 1 Orion: The Big Picture Copyrighted
November 1997 (30)
- Nov 30 Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
- Nov 29 Lasers in Eta Carinae
- Nov 28 Beta Pictoris Revisited
- Nov 27 Jupiter's Inner Moons
- Nov 26 Uranian Moons, Rings, And Clouds
- Nov 25 The Comet and the Galaxy Copyrighted
- Nov 24 Jet Near Light Speed
- Nov 23 Triton: Neptune's Largest Moon
- Nov 22 Surveyor Hops
- Nov 21 Jupiter: Moon, Ring, and Clouds
- Nov 20 Escape From The Sun
- Nov 19 Diffraction Spikes: When Stars Look Like Crosses
- Nov 18 In the Center of the Trapezium
- Nov 17 Barringer Crater on Earth
- Nov 16 The Leonid Meteor Shower
- Nov 15 Uranus: The Tilted Planet
- Nov 14 Irregular Galaxy Sextans A
- Nov 13 Mars: A Sheer Close-up
- Nov 12 El Niño Earth
- Nov 11 The Annotated Galactic Center
- Nov 10 Dark Volcano Active on Io
- Nov 9 Surveyor Slides
- Nov 8 Aristarchus' Unbelievable Discoveries
- Nov 7 Evidence for Frame Dragging Black Holes Copyrighted
- Nov 6 The Magnetic Carpet Of The Sun
- Nov 5 The Milky Way's Gamma-Ray Halo
- Nov 4 Blue Stragglers in Globular Clusters
- Nov 3 Irregular Moons Discovered Around Uranus
- Nov 2 White Dwarf Stars Cool
- Nov 1 M31: The Andromeda Galaxy Copyrighted
October 1997 (31)
- Oct 31 Haunting Mars
- Oct 30 3-D View Of Jupiter's Clouds
- Oct 29 Stereo Saturn
- Oct 28 Rafting for Solar Neutrinos
- Oct 27 Closeup of Antennae Galaxy Collision
- Oct 26 Welcome to Planet Earth
- Oct 25 Orion's Horsehead Nebula Copyrighted
- Oct 24 Moving Echoes Around SN 1987A
- Oct 23 Echos of Supernova 1987A Copyrighted
- Oct 22 The Antennae Galaxies
- Oct 21 The Butterfly Planetary Nebula Copyrighted
- Oct 20 Spiral Eddies On Planet Earth
- Oct 19 The Heart Of NGC 4261
- Oct 18 The Pleiades Star Cluster Copyrighted
- Oct 17 Mars: A Mist In Mariner Valley
- Oct 16 Cassini To Venus
- Oct 15 Cold Wind From The Boomerang Nebula
- Oct 14 Venus On The Horizon
- Oct 13 Ice Clouds over Mars
- Oct 12 Impact! 65 Million Years Ago
- Oct 11 Floating Free in Space
- Oct 10 Mars Pathfinder Super Pan
- Oct 9 Hale-Bopp and the North American Nebula Copyrighted
- Oct 8 The Brightest Star Yet Known
- Oct 7 Europe at Night Copyrighted
- Oct 6 Surveyor At Mars
- Oct 5 Worlds of a Distant Sun: 47 Ursae Majoris b Copyrighted
- Oct 4 In the Center of 30 Doradus
- Oct 3 Comet Halley and the Milky Way
- Oct 2 Colliding Supernova Remnants
- Oct 1 Maria Mitchell Inspires a Generation Copyrighted
September 1997 (30)
- Sep 30 Half Dome Rock on Mars
- Sep 29 Jupiter And Family
- Sep 28 A Wolf Rayet Star Bubble Copyrighted
- Sep 27 The Ecliptic Plane
- Sep 26 A Lonely Neutron Star
- Sep 25 T Pyxidis: Recurrent Nova
- Sep 24 Moon Occults Saturn Copyrighted
- Sep 23 A Martian Autumn Begins
- Sep 22 Antares and Rho Ophiuchi Copyrighted
- Sep 21 Looking Down on Saturn
- Sep 20 The Clouds of Jupiter
- Sep 19 Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
- Sep 18 Erupting Sun
- Sep 17 GRB Fireball Persists
- Sep 16 Moon Over Mongolia Copyrighted
- Sep 15 Olympus Mons on Mars: The Largest Volcano
- Sep 14 MyCn18: An Hourglass Nebula
- Sep 13 Kepler Discovers How Planets Move
- Sep 12 The Center of NGC 6251 is Glowing
- Sep 11 Mars Global Surveyor: Aerobraking
- Sep 10 Comet Hale-Bopp Outbound
- Sep 9 A Green Flash from the Sun Copyrighted
- Sep 8 A Map of Asteroid Vesta
- Sep 7 Luna 9: First Soft Lander
- Sep 6 Isaac Newton Explains the Solar System
- Sep 5 Apollo 17: Boulder on the Moon
- Sep 4 Rivers in the Sun
- Sep 3 A Partial Eclipse in Southern Skies Copyrighted
- Sep 2 Dark Sky, Bright Sun
- Sep 1 Infrared Helix
August 1997 (31)
- Aug 31 Arp 230: Two Spirals in One?
- Aug 30 The United States at Night Copyrighted
- Aug 29 Cassini To Saturn
- Aug 28 Infrared Trifid
- Aug 27 A Fleeting Eclipse Copyrighted
- Aug 26 Zodiacal Light Copyrighted
- Aug 25 A Fisheye View of Comet Hale-Bopp Copyrighted
- Aug 24 The Snake Nebula in Ophiuchus Copyrighted
- Aug 23 A Star Forming Region in the LMC
- Aug 22 IP Pegasi: Spiral Star
- Aug 21 A Universe in a Box
- Aug 20 Bright Meteor, Dark Sky Copyrighted
- Aug 19 Super Typhoon Winnie
- Aug 18 Io: The Prometheus Plume
- Aug 17 Astro 1 In Orbit
- Aug 16 Pictured: An Ancient Martian?
- Aug 15 Impact On Europa
- Aug 14 Mars Rocks, Sojourner Rolls
- Aug 13 Resolving Mira
- Aug 12 Sher 25: A Pending Supernova? Copyrighted
- Aug 11 A Perseid Meteor Copyrighted
- Aug 10 Nebulosity in Sagittarius Copyrighted
- Aug 9 The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies Copyrighted
- Aug 8 White Oval Clouds on Jupiter
- Aug 7 Jupiter's Ring Halo
- Aug 6 Hale-Bopp from Indian Cove Copyrighted
- Aug 5 M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy
- Aug 4 A Rusty Sunset on Mars
- Aug 3 The Cygnus Loop
- Aug 2 The Cat's Eye Nebula
- Aug 1 A Martian Sunset
July 1997 (31)
- Jul 31 Behind CL1358+62: A New Farthest Object
- Jul 30 Eagle Castle
- Jul 29 Strange Rocks on Mars
- Jul 28 Help Aldebaran Map the Moon Copyrighted
- Jul 27 A Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes Copyrighted
- Jul 26 M81 in True Color
- Jul 25 Stellar Laboratories in the LMC
- Jul 24 Mars Pathfinder's Landing Site
- Jul 23 A Hale-Bopp Triple Crown Copyrighted
- Jul 22 A Presidential Panorama of Mars
- Jul 21 In the Center of the Keyhole Nebula Copyrighted
- Jul 20 At the Edge of the Helix
- Jul 19 The Small Cloud of Magellan Copyrighted
- Jul 18 Blue Stars and Red Pillars
- Jul 17 Message from Earth
- Jul 16 Mars: Yogi And Friends In 3D
- Jul 15 Vega
- Jul 14 Mars: Twin Peaks In Stereo
- Jul 13 Vela Supernova Remnant in Optical Copyrighted
- Jul 12 Doomed Star Eta Carinae
- Jul 11 Yogi Rock
- Jul 10 Sojourner's View: The Sagan Memorial Station
- Jul 9 Sol 4: Mars Color Panorama
- Jul 8 Barnacle Bill And Sojourner
- Jul 7 Sojourner On Mars
- Jul 6 A Martian Day's End
- Jul 5 Pathfinder on Mars
- Jul 4 A Landing On Mars
- Jul 3 Mars: A Journey's End
- Jul 2 Gamma-Ray Burst: A Milestone Explosion
- Jul 1 Asteroid 253 Mathilde:'s Large Craters
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June 1997 (30)
- Jun 30 NEAR Mathilde
- Jun 29 Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon
- Jun 28 Barsoom
- Jun 27 Mars: Just The Facts
- Jun 26 A Close Encounter of the Stellar Kind
- Jun 25 A GRB Host?
- Jun 24 Antares Copyrighted
- Jun 23 Eruption on Io
- Jun 22 Distant Galaxies
- Jun 21 The Pipe Dark Nebula Copyrighted
- Jun 20 NGC1850: Star Cluster in the LMC
- Jun 19 HH1/HH2: Star Jets
- Jun 18 Asteroid 3753: Earth's Curious Companion Copyrighted
- Jun 17 Arp 220: Spirals in Collision
- Jun 16 APOD is Two Years Old Today
- Jun 15 Rockets and Robert Goddard
- Jun 14 The Early Universe
- Jun 13 Streaming From A Black Hole
- Jun 12 Jupiter's Dry Spots
- Jun 11 Young Suns
- Jun 10 Hale-Bopp Above the Cinqui Torri Mountains Copyrighted
- Jun 9 An Auroral Ring on Jupiter
- Jun 8 M101: An Ultraviolet View
- Jun 7 Apollo 15: Driving on the Moon
- Jun 6 Boosting Compton
- Jun 5 Small Star
- Jun 4 Tarantula
- Jun 3 Venus' Once Molten Surface
- Jun 2 Bright Star Knots in NGC 4038 Copyrighted
- Jun 1 M100: A Grand Design
May 1997 (31)
- May 31 Saturn with Moons Tethys and Dione
- May 30 A Cosmic Snowball
- May 29 Southern Neptune
- May 28 Mars: Just The Fiction
- May 27 Moonrise, Planet Earth
- May 26 Old Faithful Meets Hale-Bopp Copyrighted
- May 25 A High Energy Fleet
- May 24 Saturn's Rings Seen Sideways
- May 23 The Heart Of Orion
- May 22 Bound For Mars
- May 21 GRB970508 Delivers Predicted Radio Emission
- May 20 Shells in the Egg Nebula
- May 19 Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 Copyrighted
- May 18 The First Explorer
- May 17 7,000 Stars And The Milky Way Copyrighted
- May 16 Signed, “A Black Hole”
- May 15 Hale-Bopp: Climbing Into Southern Skies Copyrighted
- May 14 Hale-Bopp's Fickle Ion Tail Copyrighted
- May 13 Optical Transient Near GRB970508 Shows Distant Redshift
- May 12 Lightning on Jupiter
- May 11 M42: A Mosaic of Orion's Great Nebula
- May 10 Apollo 15's Home on the Moon
- May 9 Apollo 12: Self-Portrait
- May 8 Detailing Hale-Bopp Copyrighted
- May 7 Ultraviolet Venus
- May 6 NGC4039: Starbirth and Galaxy Death Copyrighted
- May 5 Sunset with Hale-Bopp at Keck
- May 4 The Last Moon Shot
- May 3 Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Galaxy Images
- May 2 X-Rays From IC 443
- May 1 A Galactic Cloud of Antimatter
April 1997 (30)
- Apr 30 Milky Way Molecule Map
- Apr 29 Hale-Bopp and Orion Copyrighted
- Apr 28 Io's Sodium Cloud
- Apr 27 Sputnik: Traveling Companion Courtesy:
- Apr 26 The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies Copyrighted
- Apr 25 Hale-Bopp Polarized Copyrighted
- Apr 24 The Frothy Milky Way
- Apr 23 Antlia: A New Galactic Neighbor Copyrighted
- Apr 22 Historic Optical Flash Fades Copyrighted
- Apr 21 Big Sky Comet Copyrighted
- Apr 20 Moon Robot: Lunokhod 1
- Apr 19 Spiral Galaxy M83 Copyrighted
- Apr 18 Solar Storm Causes X-Ray Aurora
- Apr 17 Pwyll: Icy Crater of Europa
- Apr 16 A Star Cluster Through Hale-Bopp's Tail Copyrighted
- Apr 15 Hale-Bopp and the Plateau de Bure Interferometer Copyrighted
- Apr 14 Hale-Bopp's Hoods
- Apr 13 Jets from SS433
- Apr 12 Arecibo: The Largest Telescope
- Apr 11 The Sun Puffs
- Apr 10 Europa's Ice Rafts
- Apr 9 Oceans Under Jupiter's Europa?
- Apr 8 Comet Hale-Bopp Over New York City Copyrighted
- Apr 7 GRB970228: What's There?
- Apr 6 Mercury Astronauts and a Redstone
- Apr 5 A Black Hole in M87?
- Apr 4 Hale-Bopp in Stereo Copyrighted
- Apr 3 Earth, Clouds, Sky, Comet Copyrighted
- Apr 2 A Complete Aurora
- Apr 1 Hale-Bopp and Andromeda Copyrighted
March 1997 (30)
- Mar 31 NGC 3242: The 'Ghost of Jupiter' Planetary Nebula
- Mar 30 Dusty Galaxy Centaurus A
- Mar 29 The Closest Galaxy: The Sagittarius Dwarf Copyrighted
- Mar 28 A Comet In The Sky
- Mar 27 Comet Country Copyrighted
- Mar 26 The City Comet Copyrighted
- Mar 25 Hale-Bopp Brightest Comet This Century
- Mar 24 The Weather on Mars
- Mar 23 A String Of Pearls
- Mar 22 M64: The Sleeping Beauty Galaxy
- Mar 21 Io's Surface: Under Construction
- Mar 20 Springtime Comet Fever
- Mar 19 Gamma-Ray Burster
- Mar 18 X-Ray Pleiades
- Mar 17 Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass
- Mar 16 Water World
- Mar 15 The Milky Way's Center
- Mar 14 Comet Hale-Bopp's Developing Tail
- Mar 13 Hale-Bopp Brightest Comet This Decade
- Mar 12 Saturn in Color
- Mar 11 Jupiter: The Great Yellow Spot
- Mar 10 Jupiter: At The Belt-Zone Boundary
- Mar 9 COBE Hotspots:The Oldest Structures Known
- Mar 8 COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
- Mar 7 Comet Hale-Bopp Enters the Evening Sky
- Mar 6 Hubble Floats Free
- Mar 5 In the Center of NGC 604
- Mar 3 Pioneer 10: The First 6 Billion Miles
- Mar 2 Hawaii
- Mar 1 Galaxy Dwingeloo 1 Emerges
February 1997 (28)
- Feb 28 Edge-On Spiral Galaxy NGC 891 Copyrighted
- Feb 27 Comet Hale-Bopp is That Bright Copyrighted
- Feb 26 Sungrazer
- Feb 25 Star Wars in NGC 664
- Feb 24 The Trail of the Intruder
- Feb 23 Cartwheel of Fortune
- Feb 22 The Gamma Ray Sky
- Feb 21 New Eyes for the Hubble Space Telescope
- Feb 20 Comet Hale-Bopp and the Dumbbell Nebula Copyrighted
- Feb 19 Mizar Binary Star
- Feb 18 A Big Cliff on Jupiter's Callisto
- Feb 17 A Wind From The Sun
- Feb 16 Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
- Feb 15 Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula Copyrighted
- Feb 14 NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster
- Feb 13 More Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp
- Feb 12 Comet Hale-Bopp Develops a Tail Copyrighted
- Feb 11 Space Walz
- Feb 10 The Gamma Ray Moon
- Feb 9 The Deep Field
- Feb 8 M104: The Sombrero Galaxy
- Feb 7 M1: Filaments of the Crab Nebula Copyrighted
- Feb 6 Comet Hale-Bopp Returns Copyrighted
- Feb 5 Running Red Rings Around Jupiter
- Feb 4 Clyde W. Tombaugh: 1906-1997 Copyrighted
- Feb 3 Stars Without Galaxies
- Feb 2 Standing on the Moon
- Feb 1 Catching Falling Stardust
January 1997 (31)
- Jan 31 Hamlet of Oberon
- Jan 30 Earth's Temperature
- Jan 29 NGC 869 & NGC 884: A Double Open Cluster Copyrighted
- Jan 28 Open Cluster M50 Copyrighted
- Jan 27 A Prominent Solar Prominence
- Jan 26 Aurora and Orion
- Jan 25 M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy
- Jan 24 Supernova 1987a Fireball Resolved
- Jan 23 Twistin' by the Lagoon
- Jan 22 Galaxy Cluster A2199
- Jan 21 Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- Jan 20 Earth Nears Asteroid Toutatis
- Jan 19 From Eagle's EGGs A Star Is Born
- Jan 18 M16: Nebula With Star Cluster Copyrighted
- Jan 17 Europa: The Latest From Galileo
- Jan 16 Trapezium: Teardrops in My Skies
- Jan 15 Black Hole Signature From Advective Disks
- Jan 14 Black Holes in Galactic Centers
- Jan 13 Sunspots: Magnetic Depressions
- Jan 12 Mercury in Stereo: Craters Within Craters
- Jan 11 Titania's Trenches
- Jan 10 Eclipsed Moon in Infrared
- Jan 9 Hazing Jupiter
- Jan 8 Grey Sun Seething
- Jan 7 Red Sun Streaming
- Jan 6 Blue Sun Glaring
- Jan 5 Too Close to a Black Hole Copyrighted
- Jan 4 A Star Where Photons Orbit Copyrighted
- Jan 3 A Wolf-Rayet Star Blows Bubbles Copyrighted
- Jan 2 Bubbles and Arcs in NGC 2359 Copyrighted
- Jan 1 Aurora Over Circle, Alaska Copyrighted
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