Astronomy Picture of the Day · 2000
APOD 2000
365 entries from 2000: 365 images and 0 videos. 87 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 31, 2000 The Millennium that Defined Earth
Credit: Apollo 8 Crew, NASA
November 30, 2000 Palomar 13's Last Stand
Credit: M. Siegel & S. Majewski ( UVA ), C. Gallart (Yale), K. Cudworth (Yerkes), M. Takamiya (Gemini), Las Campanas Observatory
October 31, 2000 The Perseus Cluster's X-Ray Skull
Credit: A. Fabian ( IoA Cambridge ) et al., NASA
September 30, 2000 Titania's Trenches
Credit: The Voyager Project , NASA
August 31, 2000 Full Throttle For Deep Space 1
Credit: Deep Space 1 Project , JPL , NASA
July 31, 2000 Comet LINEAR Breaks Up
Credit: H. Weaver ( JHU ) et al., STIS , HST , NASAThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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December 2000 (31)
- Dec 31 The Millennium that Defined Earth
- Dec 30 A Year of Resolving Backgrounds
- Dec 29 The Dark Horsehead Nebula
- Dec 28 Moon Mare and Montes Copyrighted
- Dec 27 The Dust and Ion Tales of Comet Hale-Bopp Copyrighted
- Dec 26 Jupiter, Io, and Shadow
- Dec 25 The Eclipse Tree Copyrighted
- Dec 24 NGC 1850: Gas Clouds and Star Clusters
- Dec 23 Summer at the South Pole
- Dec 22 Simulated Supergiant Star
- Dec 21 Solstice And Season's Eclipse Copyrighted
- Dec 20 Sgr A*: Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center
- Dec 19 A Close-Up of Aurora on Jupiter
- Dec 18 Oceans Under Jupiter's Moon Ganymede?
- Dec 17 M2-9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula
- Dec 16 Degas Ray Crater on Mercury
- Dec 15 IC443's Neutron Star
- Dec 14 International Space Station Trail Copyrighted
- Dec 13 Manicouagan Impact Crater on Earth
- Dec 12 Jupiter Eyes Ganymede
- Dec 11 Composing the Omega Nebula Copyrighted
- Dec 10 Too Close to a Black Hole Copyrighted
- Dec 9 Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation
- Dec 8 Abell 1795: A Galaxy Cluster's Cooling Flow
- Dec 7 Earth's San Andreas Fault
- Dec 6 Reflecting Merope
- Dec 5 Layered Mars: An Ancient Water World?
- Dec 4 The Circinus Galaxy
- Dec 3 Earth's North Magnetic Pole
- Dec 2 SN 1006: Pieces of the Cosmic Ray Puzzle
- Dec 1 A Frosty Crater On Mars
November 2000 (30)
- Nov 30 Palomar 13's Last Stand
- Nov 29 Leonids from Orbit
- Nov 28 BZ Cam Bow Shock
- Nov 27 Earth at Night
- Nov 26 Leonids Above Torre de la Guaita Copyrighted
- Nov 25 A High Energy Fleet
- Nov 24 Long Leonid Copyrighted
- Nov 23 Cassini At Jupiter: Red Spot Movie
- Nov 22 The Orion Nebula in Hydrogen Copyrighted
- Nov 21 Fire on Earth
- Nov 20 A 2000 Leonid Through Orion Copyrighted
- Nov 19 Our Dusty Universe
- Nov 18 Jupiter And Family Copyrighted
- Nov 17 Leonid Sunrise Copyrighted
- Nov 16 A Daytime Fireball in 1944 Copyrighted
- Nov 15 Coronal Rain, Solar Storm
- Nov 14 The Yardangs Of Mars
- Nov 13 Disorder in Stephan's Quintet
- Nov 12 The Lyman Alpha Forest Copyrighted
- Nov 11 The First Lunar Observatory
- Nov 10 X-Ray Cygnus A
- Nov 9 The Cosmic X-Ray Background
- Nov 8 October Skylights Copyrighted
- Nov 7 The Gum Nebula Supernova Remnant Copyrighted
- Nov 6 Heaven on Earth Copyrighted
- Nov 5 Jupiter Swallows Comet Shoemaker Levy 9
- Nov 4 Apollo 12: Self-Portrait
- Nov 3 New Moons For Saturn
- Nov 2 A Galaxy Collision in NGC 6745
- Nov 1 Double Asteroid 90 Antiope
October 2000 (31)
- Oct 31 The Perseus Cluster's X-Ray Skull
- Oct 30 A Step Toward Gravitational Wave Detection
- Oct 29 Microwave Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known
- Oct 28 Moonset, Planet Earth
- Oct 27 Close To Eros
- Oct 26 The Map Of Eros
- Oct 25 The Nebula And The Neutron Star
- Oct 24 Io Rotating Copyrighted
- Oct 23 Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy NGC 205 in the Local Group
- Oct 22 Wild Duck Open Cluster M11 Copyrighted
- Oct 21 The Averted Side Of The Moon
- Oct 20 North Pole Below
- Oct 19 The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured
- Oct 18 The Space Shuttle Docking Ring
- Oct 17 Gemini North Images Bow Shock Near Galactic Center
- Oct 16 Dust and Gas Surrounding Star R Coronae Australis
- Oct 15 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
- Oct 14 The Ecliptic Plane
- Oct 13 Eclipse Moon Trail Copyrighted
- Oct 12 HETE-2 Rides Pegasus
- Oct 11 Cassini Spacecraft Approaches Jupiter
- Oct 10 The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens Copyrighted
- Oct 9 A Polar Martian Dust Storm
- Oct 8 Earth's Richat Structure
- Oct 7 Sputnik: Traveling Companion
- Oct 6 X-Rays From Sirius B
- Oct 5 N81: Star Cradle in the SMC
- Oct 4 Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 Copyrighted
- Oct 3 Saturn Rotates
- Oct 2 Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years? Copyrighted
- Oct 1 The Center of Centaurus A
September 2000 (30)
- Sep 30 Titania's Trenches
- Sep 29 September Sky Copyrighted
- Sep 28 Heating Coronal Loops
- Sep 27 Yepun
- Sep 26 Approaching Jupiter
- Sep 25 AR 9169: A Large Sunspot Copyrighted
- Sep 24 M16: Stars from Eagle's EGGs
- Sep 23 The Equal Night
- Sep 22 M55: Globular Star Cluster
- Sep 21 XZ Tauri System Ejects Gas Bubble
- Sep 20 Gangly Spiral Galaxy NGC 3184
- Sep 19 M17: Omega Nebula Star Factory
- Sep 18 Approaching the International Space Station
- Sep 17 Saturnian Aurora
- Sep 16 X-Ray Earth
- Sep 15 Aurora In West Texas Skies Copyrighted
- Sep 14 M82's Middle Mass Black Hole
- Sep 13 Comet LINEAR: Fade To Black Copyrighted
- Sep 12 Slightly Above Mars Pathfinder
- Sep 11 Antarctic Ozone Hole Widens
- Sep 10 White Dwarf Stars Cool
- Sep 9 X-Ray Moon and X-Ray Star
- Sep 8 Andromeda Island Universe Copyrighted
- Sep 7 IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula
- Sep 6 Emerging Planetary Nebula CRL 618
- Sep 5 CFHT Star Trails
- Sep 4 Aurora Persei Copyrighted
- Sep 3 Henrietta Leavitt Calibrates the Stars
- Sep 2 X-Ray Moon
- Sep 1 SOHO Sungrazer
August 2000 (31)
- Aug 31 Full Throttle For Deep Space 1
- Aug 30 The Brown Dwarfs of Orion's Trapezium
- Aug 29 The Regolith of Asteroid Eros
- Aug 28 The Helix Nebula from CFHT Copyrighted
- Aug 27 Orion's Horsehead Nebula Copyrighted
- Aug 26 Mir Dreams
- Aug 25 Folding Europa
- Aug 24 Eros At Sunset
- Aug 23 NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula Copyrighted
- Aug 22 NGC 2244: A Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula Copyrighted
- Aug 21 A Perseid Aurora Copyrighted
- Aug 20 The Surface of Titan
- Aug 19 ROSAT Explores The X-Ray Sky
- Aug 18 X-Rays From Antennae Galaxies
- Aug 17 Mount Megantic Magnetic Storm Copyrighted
- Aug 16 Unusual Giant Galaxy NGC 1316
- Aug 15 The Solar Spectrum Copyrighted
- Aug 14 Kemble's Cascade
- Aug 13 Doomed Star Eta Carinae
- Aug 12 A Perseid Meteor Copyrighted
- Aug 11 Fragments of Comet LINEAR
- Aug 10 Other Worlds and HD 38529 Copyrighted
- Aug 9 A Solar Filament Lifts Off
- Aug 8 Comet LINEAR Disperses
- Aug 7 Nearby Star Episilon Eridani Has a Planet Copyrighted
- Aug 6 The Coma Cluster of Galaxies Copyrighted
- Aug 5 Halley's Nucleus: An Orbiting Iceberg Copyrighted
- Aug 4 M15: Dense Globular Star Cluster
- Aug 3 22 Miles From Eros
- Aug 2 At the Edge of the Crescent Nebula
- Aug 1 X-Rays from Comet LINEAR
July 2000 (31)
- Jul 31 Comet LINEAR Breaks Up
- Jul 30 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
- Jul 29 NGC1850: Star Cluster in the LMC
- Jul 28 Moon And Venus Share The Sky Copyrighted
- Jul 27 Tails Of Comet LINEAR Copyrighted
- Jul 26 Lingering Lunar Eclipse Copyrighted
- Jul 25 Why Stars Twinkle
- Jul 24 M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy Copyrighted
- Jul 23 Isaac Newton Explains the Solar System
- Jul 22 GLAST Gamma Ray Sky Simulation
- Jul 21 Eros Craters And Boulders
- Jul 20 AR9077: Solar Magnetic Arcade
- Jul 19 Globular Cluster M19 Copyrighted
- Jul 18 A Russian Proton Rocket Launches Zvezda
- Jul 17 Lightning on Earth Copyrighted
- Jul 16 M57: The Ring Nebula
- Jul 15 Star Trails In Southern Skies Copyrighted
- Jul 14 Crater On Ice
- Jul 13 LP 944-20: A Failed Star Flares
- Jul 12 A Giant Starspot on HD 12545 Copyrighted
- Jul 11 The Crab Nebula in Blue and White Copyrighted
- Jul 10 Comet LINEAR Extends Copyrighted
- Jul 9 The Hubble Deep Field
- Jul 8 The United States At Night
- Jul 7 Sirius, Sun, Moon, and Southern Cross
- Jul 6 A Jet from Galaxy M87
- Jul 5 The Galactic Center Across the Infrared
- Jul 4 Comet LINEAR Approaches Copyrighted
- Jul 3 Pelican Nebula Ionization Front
- Jul 2 Gamma-Ray Burst: A Milestone Explosion
- Jul 1 Ultraviolet Earth from the Moon
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June 2000 (29)
- Jun 29 Galactic Centre Starscape
- Jun 28 BATSE GRB Final Sky Map
- Jun 27 M63: The Sunflower Galaxy Copyrighted
- Jun 26 Newton Crater: Evidence for Recent Water on Mars
- Jun 25 Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula Copyrighted
- Jun 24 Sunlight Through Saturn's Rings
- Jun 23 The Gullies Of Mars
- Jun 22 Blue Stragglers In NGC 6397
- Jun 21 Solstice Celebration
- Jun 20 Ganymede: The Largest Moon in the Solar System
- Jun 19 The Long Jet of Pictor A
- Jun 18 The Milky Way Near the Southern Cross Copyrighted
- Jun 17 The Last Moon Shot
- Jun 16 APOD Is Five Years Old Today
- Jun 15 X-rays From The Perseus Cluster Core
- Jun 14 A Slice of the Universe with 2dF
- Jun 13 The Carina Nebula in Infrared
- Jun 12 A Bubbling Galaxy Center
- Jun 11 Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night Copyrighted
- Jun 10 M101: An Ultraviolet View
- Jun 9 Vela Pulsar: Neutron Star-Ring-Jet
- Jun 8 Active Regions, CMEs, and X-Class Flares
- Jun 7 Up Close to Jupiter's Moon Io
- Jun 6 A Continuous Eruption on Jupiter's Moon Io
- Jun 5 In the Heart of the Crab
- Jun 4 MyCn18: An Hourglass Nebula
- Jun 3 Compton Re-entry
- Jun 2 The Secret Spiral Of IC3328
- Jun 1 X-Ray Wind From NGC 3783
May 2000 (31)
- May 31 Astronaut at Work
- May 30 The Very Large Array Turns Twenty
- May 29 Olympus Mons Volcano on Mars
- May 28 Skylab Over Earth
- May 27 M51: The Center Of The Whirlpool
- May 26 Solar Sail
- May 25 Eros Horizon View
- May 24 Pleiades, Planets, And Hot Plasma
- May 23 M4: The Closest Known Globular Cluster Copyrighted
- May 22 Light Bridges on the Sun
- May 21 Antares and Rho Ophiuchi Copyrighted
- May 20 Sungrazer
- May 19 An Aurora Before the Storm Copyrighted
- May 18 The Near Infrared Sky
- May 17 The Far Infrared Sky
- May 16 QSO H1821+643 Indicates a Universe Filled with Hydrogen
- May 15 A Halo Around the Moon Copyrighted
- May 14 A Presidential Panorama of Mars
- May 13 Surveyor Slides
- May 12 X-Ray Ring Around SN1987A
- May 11 NGC 3314: When Galaxies Overlap
- May 10 Dog-Bone Shaped Asteroid 216 Kleopatra
- May 9 The Race to Reveal Our Universe
- May 8 Jupiter's Moons Thebe, Amalthea, and Metis
- May 7 A Green Flash from the Sun Copyrighted
- May 6 The Heart Of Orion
- May 5 Planets In The Sun
- May 4 Planets Above The Clouds Copyrighted
- May 3 BOOMERANG Images The Early Universe
- May 2 An Iridium Flash Sunset Copyrighted
- May 1 The North America Nebula Copyrighted
April 2000 (30)
- Apr 30 The Small Cloud of Magellan (SMC) Copyrighted
- Apr 29 3D View Of Jupiter's Clouds
- Apr 28 Leonid Glowworm
- Apr 27 Calderas And Cliffs Near Io's South Pole
- Apr 26 Filaments In The Cygnus Loop
- Apr 25 Layers of the Martian South Polar Cap
- Apr 24 Reflection Nebula M78
- Apr 23 Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Images
- Apr 22 Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- Apr 21 M82: Starburst In X-rays
- Apr 20 Blue Marble 2000
- Apr 19 Redshift 5.8: A New Farthest Quasar
- Apr 18 Europa: Ice Line
- Apr 17 Flying Over Asteroid Eros' West End
- Apr 16 IC 4406: A Seemingly Square Nebula
- Apr 15 Surveyor Hops
- Apr 14 Supernova Remnant E0102-72 from Radio to X-Ray
- Apr 13 Exploring Comet Tails Copyrighted
- Apr 12 The Local Bubble and the Galactic Neighborhood Copyrighted
- Apr 11 The Local Interstellar Cloud Copyrighted
- Apr 10 Aurora in Red and Yellow Copyrighted
- Apr 9 Mysterious Pluto and Charon
- Apr 8 Compton Observatory In Orbit
- Apr 7 Celebrating Hubble With NGC 6751
- Apr 6 Venus, Moon, and Neighbors Copyrighted
- Apr 5 The M7 Open Star Cluster in Scorpius Copyrighted
- Apr 4 A Superwind from the Cigar Galaxy
- Apr 3 A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence
- Apr 2 Eagle EGGs in M16
- Apr 1 Planet Earth from TIROS 1: First TV Image
March 2000 (31)
- Mar 31 Free-Floating Planets In Orion
- Mar 30 Saturn-Sized Worlds Discovered
- Mar 29 Fullerenes as Miniature Cosmic Time Capsules Copyrighted
- Mar 28 M20: The Trifid Nebula Copyrighted
- Mar 27 Flying Over Asteroid Eros
- Mar 26 Venus' Once Molten Surface
- Mar 25 The Earth Also Rises
- Mar 24 A Mystery In Gamma Rays
- Mar 23 Inside Mars
- Mar 22 A Spherule from Outer Space
- Mar 21 HH111's 12 Light-Year Star Jet
- Mar 20 Mercury on the Horizon
- Mar 19 Apollo 16: Exploring Plum Crater
- Mar 18 A Wind From The Sun
- Mar 17 Martian Dust Devil Trails
- Mar 16 NEAR Shoemaker Views Eros
- Mar 15 Weak Lensing Distorts the Universe
- Mar 14 A GRB 000301C Symphony
- Mar 13 A Panorama of Oddities in Orion A
- Mar 12 Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe
- Mar 11 Messier Marathon Copyrighted
- Mar 10 Sky and Planets Copyrighted
- Mar 9 Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection
- Mar 8 Nearer To Asteroid Eros
- Mar 7 Zal Patera on Jupiter's Moon Io
- Mar 6 Abell 2142: Clash of the Galaxy Clusters
- Mar 5 The Pipe Dark Nebula Copyrighted
- Mar 4 Saturn At Night
- Mar 3 Dust Storm on Planet Earth
- Mar 2 NGC 1999: Reflection Nebula in Orion
- Mar 1 M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules Copyrighted
February 2000 (29)
- Feb 29 Julius Caesar and Leap Days Copyrighted
- Feb 28 The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT
- Feb 27 The Pleiades Star Cluster Copyrighted
- Feb 26 Impact: 65 Million Years Ago
- Feb 25 The Comets Of SOHO
- Feb 24 Stereo Eros
- Feb 23 Sunspot Seething
- Feb 22 Neighboring Galaxy: The Large Magellanic Cloud Copyrighted
- Feb 21 A Giant Gouge on Asteroid Eros
- Feb 20 The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies Copyrighted
- Feb 19 Young Suns
- Feb 18 Neptune through Adaptive Optics
- Feb 17 New Shocks For Supernova 1987A
- Feb 16 Eros From Orbit
- Feb 15 M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Core
- Feb 14 An Unexpected Asteroid Valentine
- Feb 13 Southwest Mercury
- Feb 12 Stereo Saturn
- Feb 11 XMM-Newton First Light: X-Rays From The LMC
- Feb 10 Eros Encounter Nears
- Feb 9 Galaxy Wars: M81 Versus M82 Copyrighted
- Feb 8 Rings Around Beta Pictoris
- Feb 7 The W4 Chimney
- Feb 6 The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987A
- Feb 5 NEAR to Asteroid Eros
- Feb 4 X-Ray Stars Of Orion
- Feb 3 Colorful Clouds Of Carina
- Feb 2 Aeolian Mars
- Feb 1 Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens
January 2000 (31)
- Jan 31 Snowstorm on Planet Earth
- Jan 30 The Milky Way in Infrared
- Jan 29 Natural Saturn On The Cassini Cruise
- Jan 28 Astronomy From An F-18
- Jan 27 Spiral Galaxy In Centaurus
- Jan 26 A Lunar Eclipse Over Time Copyrighted
- Jan 25 A Lunar Eclipse in Three Exposures Copyrighted
- Jan 24 NGC 2392 from the Newly Fixed Hubble
- Jan 23 A Message From Earth
- Jan 22 Magnetar In The Sky
- Jan 21 X For Andromeda
- Jan 20 X-Rays From The Galactic Center
- Jan 19 A Big Black Hole Floats By
- Jan 18 NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula
- Jan 17 V4641 Sgr: The Closest Black Hole Candidate
- Jan 16 The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
- Jan 15 The Sun Also Rises
- Jan 14 Chandra Resolves the Hard X-Ray Background
- Jan 13 A Skygazer's Full Moon Copyrighted
- Jan 12 NGC 6791: An Old, Large Open Cluster
- Jan 11 The Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur
- Jan 10 Brown Sun Bubbling Copyrighted
- Jan 9 Galaxy Dwingeloo 1 Emerges
- Jan 8 Albert Einstein Describes Space and Time
- Jan 7 NGC 4214: Star Forming Galaxy
- Jan 6 Mars in the New Year
- Jan 5 Earth, Moon, Hubble
- Jan 4 Galaxies Cluster Toward the Great Attractor
- Jan 3 Cas A Supernova Remnant in X-Rays
- Jan 2 The Largest Rock Known
- Jan 1 The Millennium that Defines Universe
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