Astronomy Picture of the Day · 2001
APOD 2001
365 entries from 2001: 365 images and 0 videos. 101 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 31, 2001 A Year of Dark Cosmology
Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory , Mauna Kea Observatory
November 30, 2001 Meteor Storm Sights and Sounds
Credit & Copyright: Paulo Raymundo ( Reaiche Observatory ) animation courtesy Tony Phillips ( SpaceWeather.com )
October 31, 2001 Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
Credit: Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri ( Observatoire de Paris ) et al., ESA , NASA
September 30, 2001 IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula
Credit: R. Sahai ( JPL ) et al. , Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ), NASA
August 31, 2001 The Flight Of Helios
Photo Credit: Carla Thomas, courtesy DFRC , NASA
July 31, 2001 Oceans Under Jupiter's Callisto?
Credit: Voyager 1 , NASAThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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December 2001 (31)
- Dec 31 A Year of Dark Cosmology
- Dec 30 Trifid Pillars & Jets
- Dec 29 The Annotated Galactic Center
- Dec 28 Starlight Reflections Copyrighted
- Dec 27 The Incredible Expanding Crab
- Dec 26 Himalayan Horizon From Space
- Dec 25 Star Forming Region Hubble-V
- Dec 24 Asteroid 1998 WT24 Passes Near Earth Copyrighted
- Dec 23 Saturn Aurora
- Dec 22 Hot Stars in the Southern Milky Way
- Dec 21 Partial Eclipse, Cloudy Day Copyrighted
- Dec 20 Jupiter and Saturn Pas de Deux Copyrighted
- Dec 19 Finding Dark Matter Copyrighted
- Dec 18 Sharpless 212 in Hydrogen and Sulfur Copyrighted
- Dec 17 Leaving the International Space Station
- Dec 16 The Horsehead Nebula
- Dec 15 Ganymede: Torn Comet – Crater Chain
- Dec 14 NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula Copyrighted
- Dec 13 The South Pole of Mars
- Dec 12 Leonids Over Korean Observatory Copyrighted
- Dec 11 Venusian Half-Shell
- Dec 10 Globular Cluster M15
- Dec 9 The Belt of Venus
- Dec 8 Moon Struck
- Dec 7 Mediterranean Leonid 2001 Copyrighted
- Dec 6 Comet Linear (WM1) Brightens
- Dec 5 A Sky Filled with Leonids Copyrighted
- Dec 4 AE Aurigae: The Flaming Star
- Dec 3 Dueling Auroras Copyrighted
- Dec 2 Rumors of a Strange Universe
- Dec 1 Neptune's Great Dark Spot: Gone But Not Forgotten
November 2001 (30)
- Nov 30 Meteor Storm Sights and Sounds Copyrighted
- Nov 29 Coronal Inflow
- Nov 28 Extra-Solar Planetary Atmosphere Detected
- Nov 27 Ancient Layered Rocks on Mars
- Nov 26 Leonids From the Road Copyrighted
- Nov 25 M16: Stars from Eagle's EGGs
- Nov 24 Mariner's Mercury
- Nov 23 Counting Falling Stardust Copyrighted
- Nov 22 Fireball, Smoke Trail, Meteor Storm Copyrighted
- Nov 21 The Galactic Ring of NGC 6782
- Nov 20 A Leonids Star Field Copyrighted
- Nov 19 A 2001 Leonids Meteor Shower Fireball
- Nov 18 A Leonid Meteor Explodes
- Nov 17 Catching Falling Stardust
- Nov 16 Leonid Watching
- Nov 15 Recycling Columbia
- Nov 14 Auroras Over Both Earth Poles
- Nov 13 A Gravity Map of Earth
- Nov 12 Is Mystery Object an Orphan Afterglow?
- Nov 11 An Annotated Leonid
- Nov 10 Lunar Dust and Duct Tape
- Nov 9 SOHO Comet 367: Sungrazer
- Nov 8 Under A Sunspot
- Nov 7 A Sun Pillar in Red and Violet Copyrighted
- Nov 6 In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M83
- Nov 5 Aurora Over Winnipeg
- Nov 4 Leonids from Leo
- Nov 3 Bright Stars, Dim Galaxy
- Nov 2 THEMIS of Mars
- Nov 1 M87's Energetic Jet
October 2001 (31)
- Oct 31 Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
- Oct 30 Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado Copyrighted
- Oct 29 Spinning Black Holes and MCG-6-30-15
- Oct 28 NGC 2346: A Butterfly-Shaped Planetary Nebula
- Oct 27 Sher 25: A Pending Supernova? Copyrighted
- Oct 26 Elements in the Aftermath
- Oct 25 Odyssey at Mars
- Oct 24 The Matter Of Galaxy Clusters
- Oct 23 Emission and Reflection in NGC 6559
- Oct 22 The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral
- Oct 21 The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT
- Oct 20 The Radio Sky: Tuned to 408MHz
- Oct 19 X-Ray Stars and Winds in the Rosette Nebula
- Oct 18 Pluto: New Horizons Copyrighted
- Oct 17 Mars Engulfed
- Oct 16 A Newly Active Volcano on Jupiter's Io
- Oct 15 The Earth and Moon Planetary System
- Oct 14 Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope
- Oct 13 A Portrait of Saturn from Titan
- Oct 12 Space Station and Space Shuttle: Backyard View Copyrighted
- Oct 11 VDB 142 in Cepheus
- Oct 10 The Center of Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
- Oct 9 The Past of Asteroid Eros
- Oct 8 A Yukon Aurora Copyrighted
- Oct 7 Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens
- Oct 6 Hen 1357: New Born Nebula
- Oct 5 A Flock of Stars Copyrighted
- Oct 4 M74: The Perfect Spiral
- Oct 3 The Planetary Nebula Show
- Oct 2 A Flying Astronaut Over Earth
- Oct 1 A Global Dust Storm on Mars
September 2001 (30)
- Sep 30 IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula
- Sep 29 The Iron Sun
- Sep 28 NGC 6992: A Glimpse of the Veil Copyrighted
- Sep 27 Elements of Nearby Spiral M33
- Sep 26 Comet Borrelly's Nucleus Copyrighted
- Sep 25 The Highs and Lows of Earth
- Sep 24 A Solar Prominence Erupts
- Sep 23 Molecular Cloud Barnard 68
- Sep 22 Full Throttle For Deep Space 1
- Sep 21 Where a Black Hole Roams
- Sep 20 X-Ray Stars in M15
- Sep 19 SIRTF: Name This Satellite Copyrighted
- Sep 18 Surrounded by Mars
- Sep 17 Southwest Andromeda Copyrighted
- Sep 16 Venus' Once Molten Surface
- Sep 15 Eclipsed Moon in Infrared
- Sep 14 Cold Dust in the Eagle Nebula
- Sep 13 X-Rays and the Circinus Pulsar
- Sep 12 Zodiacal Light and the False Dawn
- Sep 11 Spiral Galaxy NGC 3310 Across the Visible
- Sep 10 Galactic Center Flicker Indicates Black Hole
- Sep 9 NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster Copyrighted
- Sep 8 Moon Occults Saturn Copyrighted
- Sep 7 Moon AND Sun
- Sep 6 Moon AND Stars
- Sep 5 3C175: Quasar Cannon Copyrighted
- Sep 4 2dF Sees Waves of Galaxies
- Sep 3 The Making of the Rotten Egg Nebula
- Sep 2 Deimos: A Small Martian Moon
- Sep 1 Magnetars In The Sky
August 2001 (31)
- Aug 31 The Flight Of Helios
- Aug 30 How Big Is 2001 KX76?
- Aug 29 AFGL 2591: A Massive Star Acts Up
- Aug 28 Jagged Hills on Jupiter's Callisto
- Aug 27 Artificial Night Sky Brightness Copyrighted
- Aug 26 Uranus: The Tilted Planet
- Aug 25 Pioneer 10: The First 7 Billion Miles
- Aug 24 NEAR at Eros: Before Touchdown
- Aug 23 Distortion from a Distant Cluster
- Aug 22 The Bubbling Cauldron of NGC 3079
- Aug 21 Dark Spots on Neptune
- Aug 20 The Lagoon Nebula in Three Colors Copyrighted
- Aug 19 Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
- Aug 18 Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars
- Aug 17 The 47 Ursae Majoris System Copyrighted
- Aug 16 Centaurus A: X-Rays from an Active Galaxy
- Aug 15 Mars: 3-D Dunes
- Aug 14 X-Rays from the Galactic Plane
- Aug 13 A Piece of Interplanetary Dust
- Aug 12 Eagle EGGs in M16
- Aug 11 A Mystery In Gamma Rays
- Aug 10 Perseids of Summer Copyrighted
- Aug 9 Tycho and Copernicus: Lunar Ray Craters Copyrighted
- Aug 8 Farewell Jupiter
- Aug 7 A July Dawn Copyrighted
- Aug 6 The Orbiting Hubble Space Telscope
- Aug 5 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
- Aug 4 Neighboring Galaxy: The Large Magellanic Cloud Copyrighted
- Aug 3 Warped Spiral Galaxy ESO 510-13
- Aug 2 Burning Tree Sprite
- Aug 1 Young Martian Terrain
July 2001 (31)
- Jul 31 Oceans Under Jupiter's Callisto?
- Jul 30 Star Cluster R136 Bursts Out
- Jul 29 M57: The Ring Nebula
- Jul 28 A Daytime Fireball in 1944 Copyrighted
- Jul 27 Martian Dust Storm
- Jul 26 Madagascar Totality Copyrighted
- Jul 25 Hot Gas Halo Detected Around Galaxy NGC 4631
- Jul 24 The Red Spider Planetary Nebula
- Jul 23 Atlantis to Orbit
- Jul 22 NGC 1977: Blue Reflection Nebula in Orion Copyrighted
- Jul 21 25 Years Ago: Vikings on Mars
- Jul 20 The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396 Copyrighted
- Jul 19 Pulsar Wind in the Vela Nebula
- Jul 18 Mars from Earth
- Jul 17 The Carina Nebula in Three Colors Copyrighted
- Jul 16 Water Found Around Nearby Star CW Leonis
- Jul 15 Io in True Color
- Jul 14 Solar System Web Cam Copyrighted
- Jul 13 Welcome to the Moon Hotel Copyrighted
- Jul 12 NGC 1850: Not Found in the Milky Way
- Jul 11 A Total Eclipse Over Africa Copyrighted
- Jul 10 Sudbury Indicates Nonstandard Particle Model
- Jul 9 Air Pollution Earth
- Jul 8 The Galactic Center in Infrared
- Jul 7 A Close Encounter Of The Stellar Kind
- Jul 6 Bakasa Eclipse Sequence Copyrighted
- Jul 5 C/2001 A2 (LINEAR): Comet ! Copyrighted
- Jul 4 Moonbow with Sailboats Copyrighted
- Jul 3 Unusual Flashes Toward Globular Cluster M22
- Jul 2 The Seasons of Saturn
- Jul 1 Spiral Galaxy NGC 7742
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June 2001 (30)
- Jun 30 Hydrogen, Helium, and the Stars of M10 Copyrighted
- Jun 29 Ice Volcanoes on Mars?
- Jun 28 The Topography of Mars
- Jun 27 Moonlight, Mars, and Milky Way Copyrighted
- Jun 26 All of Mars
- Jun 25 A Brighter Comet LINEAR Copyrighted
- Jun 24 NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
- Jun 23 The Cygnus Loop
- Jun 22 Eclipse in African Skies Copyrighted
- Jun 21 Diamond Ring in the Sun Copyrighted
- Jun 20 Total Eclipse of the Active Sun Copyrighted
- Jun 19 Crescent Neptune and Triton
- Jun 18 NGC 4755: A Jewel Box of Stars Copyrighted
- Jun 17 Colorful Clouds Of Carina
- Jun 16 APOD is Six Years Old Today
- Jun 15 Messiers and Mars Copyrighted
- Jun 14 Around The Arches Cluster
- Jun 13 M94: Beyond the Blue
- Jun 12 The Cartwheel Galaxy Copyrighted
- Jun 11 Globular Cluster M2 Copyrighted
- Jun 10 Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Images
- Jun 9 Apollo 17's Lunar Rover
- Jun 8 Three Galaxies in Draco Copyrighted
- Jun 7 NGC 253: X-Ray Zoom
- Jun 6 NGC 1512: A Panchromatic View
- Jun 5 Asteroid Eros Reconstructed
- Jun 4 The T Tauri Star Forming System
- Jun 3 A GRB 000301C Symphony
- Jun 2 The Pulsar Powered Crab
- Jun 1 Venus' Evening Loop Copyrighted
May 2001 (31)
- May 31 LINEAR's Tail and Two Nuclei Copyrighted
- May 30 Stellar Spectral Types: OBAFGKM Copyrighted
- May 29 Working in Space
- May 28 Close-up of the Face on Mars
- May 27 Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass
- May 26 NGC 6826: The Blinking Eye
- May 25 Saturn The Giant
- May 24 X-Ray Stars of 47 Tucanae
- May 23 Strange Orange Soil on the Moon
- May 22 Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232
- May 21 Another Comet LINEAR Breaks Up
- May 20 Sagittarius Star Cloud
- May 19 Damage to Apollo 13
- May 18 HD 82943: Planet Swallower
- May 17 Solar Neutrino Astronomy
- May 16 The Center of the Circinus Galaxy in X-Rays
- May 15 A Radar Image of Venus
- May 14 A Cerro Tololo Sky Copyrighted
- May 13 Crater Copernicus
- May 12 Shuttle Moon Copyrighted
- May 11 X-Ray Rainbows
- May 10 Spirals On Edge Copyrighted
- May 9 Space Station Shows Off New Robot Arm
- May 8 GRO J1655-40: Evidence for a Spinning Black Hole
- May 7 One Hundred-Kilometer Terrain on Venus
- May 6 The Pleiades Star Cluster Copyrighted
- May 5 Shepard Flies Freedom 7
- May 4 Protoplanetary Survivors in Orion
- May 3 Far Side of the Sun
- May 2 Planet Building in HD 100546
- May 1 Antarctica Hears Little Normal Matter in the Big Bang Copyrighted
April 2001 (30)
- Apr 30 Approaching the International Space Station
- Apr 29 Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos Copyrighted
- Apr 28 The Moon and All the Crashes Copyrighted
- Apr 27 Visitors' Galaxy Gallery
- Apr 26 Horsehead Rides Again Copyrighted
- Apr 25 Space Laser Creates Artificial Star Copyrighted
- Apr 24 NGC 2264: Stars, Dust, and Gas Copyrighted
- Apr 23 Space Shuttle Lifts Off for Space Station
- Apr 22 Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
- Apr 21 Apollo 12: Stereo View Near Surveyor Crater
- Apr 20 Io: Moon Over Jupiter
- Apr 19 Sunspot Stack
- Apr 18 A Higher Dimensional Universe? Copyrighted
- Apr 17 Colorful Water Clouds Over Mars
- Apr 16 The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies Copyrighted
- Apr 15 Diffraction Spikes: When Stars Look Like Crosses
- Apr 14 Man Enters Space
- Apr 13 GRB010222: Gamma-Ray Burst, X-Ray Afterglow
- Apr 12 STS-1: First Shuttle Launch
- Apr 11 Large Sunspot Group AR 9393
- Apr 10 M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy in Dust and Stars
- Apr 9 Mars Odyssey Lifts Off for Mars
- Apr 8 The Big Corona Copyrighted
- Apr 7 Stereo Sun
- Apr 6 Aurora Over New Zealand Copyrighted
- Apr 5 On the Origin of Gold
- Apr 4 Distant Supernova, Dark Energy
- Apr 3 New Stars Destroying NGC 1748
- Apr 2 Aurora Over Clouds Copyrighted
- Apr 1 Americans Defeat Russians in First Space Quidditch Match
March 2001 (31)
- Mar 31 Barsoom
- Mar 30 Equinox + 1 Copyrighted
- Mar 29 Aurora Alaskan Style Copyrighted
- Mar 28 Chandra Deep Field
- Mar 27 Swiss Cheese-Like Landscape on Mars
- Mar 26 Comet Hale-Bopp in the Outer Solar System
- Mar 25 The Crab Nebula from VLT
- Mar 24 The UV SMC from UIT
- Mar 23 Mir Flares Farewell Copyrighted
- Mar 22 Jupiter, Saturn and Messier 45 Copyrighted
- Mar 21 Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903
- Mar 20 Discovery Spring
- Mar 19 Pluto in True Color
- Mar 18 The Nearest Stars
- Mar 17 Astro-2 In Orbit
- Mar 16 Rockets and Robert Goddard
- Mar 15 Islands in the Photosphere Copyrighted
- Mar 14 Comet McNaught-Hartley Copyrighted
- Mar 13 A Sun Pillar Copyrighted
- Mar 12 M82 After the Crash
- Mar 11 NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster
- Mar 10 Apollo / Surveyor Stereo View
- Mar 9 X-Rays From HCG 62
- Mar 8 Bright Venus Copyrighted
- Mar 7 Saturn At Night
- Mar 6 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula Copyrighted
- Mar 5 Survivor: NEAR Shoemaker On Asteroid Eros
- Mar 4 TT Cygni: Carbon Star
- Mar 3 Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3
- Mar 2 LkHa101: The Hole in the Doughnut
- Mar 1 Maximum Sun
February 2001 (28)
- Feb 28 A Space Station Meets its Destiny
- Feb 27 The Witch Head Nebula Copyrighted
- Feb 26 Sand Dunes on Mars
- Feb 25 The Sudbury Neutrino Detector
- Feb 24 Infrared Horsehead
- Feb 23 M55: Color Magnitude Diagram
- Feb 22 3C294: Distant X-Ray Galaxy Cluster
- Feb 21 A Sonic Boom
- Feb 20 Star Forming Region S106 Copyrighted
- Feb 19 Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to Moon
- Feb 18 Lunation
- Feb 17 Happy Birthday Jules Verne
- Feb 16 Star Forming Region Hubble-X
- Feb 15 Jupiter Unpeeled
- Feb 14 The Rosette Nebula Copyrighted
- Feb 13 NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros
- Feb 12 Approaching Asteroid Eros
- Feb 11 Near-Shoemaker Views Eros
- Feb 10 Aurora Astern
- Feb 9 Nashville Four Planet Skyline Copyrighted
- Feb 8 Distant Galaxies in Radio Vision
- Feb 7 Distant Open Cluster M103 Copyrighted
- Feb 6 Touchdown Site on Asteroid Eros
- Feb 5 Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
- Feb 4 Welcome to Planet Earth
- Feb 3 M100: A Grand Design
- Feb 2 All-Sky Panorama Copyrighted
- Feb 1 Jupiter's Brain
January 2001 (31)
- Jan 31 Earth's Plasmasphere
- Jan 30 The Orion Nebula from VLT
- Jan 29 An Airplane in Front of the Sun Copyrighted
- Jan 28 CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
- Jan 27 The Moons Of Earth
- Jan 26 Galaxies Of The Virgo Cluster Copyrighted
- Jan 25 Sail On, Stardust Copyrighted
- Jan 24 NGC 3603: X-Rays From A Starburst Cluster
- Jan 23 Spherical Planetary Nebula Abell 39 Copyrighted
- Jan 22 A Two-toned Crater on Asteroid Eros
- Jan 21 Resolving Mira
- Jan 20 Helios Helium
- Jan 19 Black Holes Are Black
- Jan 18 2001: A Total Lunar Eclipse
- Jan 17 Spiral Galaxy NGC 3310 in Ultraviolet
- Jan 16 Europa Rotating Copyrighted
- Jan 15 Billows of Smog in the Outer Galaxy
- Jan 14 Kepler Discovers How Planets Move
- Jan 13 A Sky Full Of Hydrogen
- Jan 12 NGC 1410/1409: Intergalactic Pipeline
- Jan 11 X-rays From The Cat's Eye
- Jan 10 Watch the Sky Rotate
- Jan 9 A Cosmic Call to Nearby Stars Copyrighted
- Jan 8 Help NASA Classify Martian Craters
- Jan 7 Tycho Brahe Measures the Sky
- Jan 6 Apollo 17's Moonship
- Jan 5 Second Millennium, Last Eclipse Copyrighted
- Jan 4 Third Millennium, First Eclipse Copyrighted
- Jan 3 M8: In the Center of the Lagoon Nebula Copyrighted
- Jan 2 Jupiter, Europa, and Callisto
- Jan 1 The Millennium that Defines Universe
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