Astronomy Picture of the Day · 2013
APOD 2013
364 entries from 2013: 337 images and 27 videos. 225 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 31, 2013 The Horsehead Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: John Chumack
November 29, 2013 Comet ISON Before and After
Image Credit: NASA , SOHO
October 31, 2013 Night on a Spooky Planet
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Vetter ( Nuits sacrées )
September 29, 2013 The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
Image Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team , ( STScI / AURA ), ESA , NASA
August 31, 2013 NGC 5195: The Dot Under the Question Mark
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive , NASA , ESA – Processing: José Jiménez Priego
July 30, 2013 NGC 2392 from Hubble and Chandra
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA / CXC / IAA-CSIC / N. Ruiz et al. ; Optical: NASA / STScIThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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December 2013 (31)
- Dec 31 The Horsehead Nebula Copyrighted
- Dec 30 Quantum Streampunk Fantasy Fractal Landscape Copyrighted
- Dec 29 Time-Lapse Auroras Over Norway Video Copyrighted
- Dec 28 Alaska Aurora Sequence Copyrighted
- Dec 27 Melotte 15 in the Heart Copyrighted
- Dec 26 The Hydrogen Clouds of M33 Copyrighted
- Dec 25 Phobos 360 Video
- Dec 24 Sharpless 308: Star Bubble Copyrighted
- Dec 23 Geminid Meteors over Chile Copyrighted
- Dec 22 Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma Copyrighted
- Dec 21 SDO's Multiwavelength Sun
- Dec 20 Titan's Land of Lakes
- Dec 19 A Colorful Moon Copyrighted
- Dec 18 Light Pillars over Finland Copyrighted
- Dec 17 Geminid Meteors over Teide Volcano Copyrighted
- Dec 16 Yutu Rover Rolls onto the Moon
- Dec 15 Gibbous Europa Copyrighted
- Dec 14 The Bubble Nebula Copyrighted
- Dec 13 Geminid Meteor Shower over Dashanbao Wetlands Copyrighted
- Dec 12 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka Copyrighted
- Dec 11 The Coldest Place on Earth
- Dec 10 Seyfert's Sextet
- Dec 9 Comet Lovejoy Over a Windmill Copyrighted
- Dec 8 Everest Panorama from Mars
- Dec 7 Naked Eye Nova Centauri 2013 Copyrighted
- Dec 6 Gamma-Ray Earth and Sky
- Dec 5 Planetary Nebula Abell 7 Copyrighted
- Dec 4 Comet Lovejoy through Mrby Castle Ruins Copyrighted
- Dec 3 The Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi Copyrighted
- Dec 2 Comet Lovejoy Before Galaxy M63 Copyrighted
- Dec 1 A Laser Strike at the Galactic Center
November 2013 (30)
- Nov 30 Surprising Comet ISON Video
- Nov 29 Comet ISON Before and After
- Nov 28 NGC 1999: South of Orion
- Nov 27 Comet ISON Rising Video Copyrighted
- Nov 26 Cap Cloud over the Sierra Nevadas Copyrighted
- Nov 25 Anemic Spiral NGC 4921 from Hubble
- Nov 24 Comet Hale-Bopp Over Indian Cove Copyrighted
- Nov 23 Comet ISON from STEREO
- Nov 22 From California to the Pleiades Copyrighted
- Nov 21 The Trail of a Minotaur Copyrighted
- Nov 20 Heavy Black Hole Jets in 4U1630-47
- Nov 19 Globular Cluster M15 from Hubble
- Nov 18 Aurora and Unusual Clouds Over Iceland Copyrighted
- Nov 17 The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught Copyrighted
- Nov 16 Active Comet ISON Copyrighted
- Nov 15 The Flash Spectrum of the Sun Copyrighted
- Nov 14 The Jets of NGC 1097 Copyrighted
- Nov 13 In the Shadow of Saturn
- Nov 12 The Unexpected Tails of Asteroid P5
- Nov 11 An Active Sun During a Total Eclipse Copyrighted
- Nov 10 Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning Copyrighted
- Nov 9 Comet Lovejoy with M44 Copyrighted
- Nov 8 Solar Eclipse from Uganda Copyrighted
- Nov 7 Eclipse at 44,000 Feet Copyrighted
- Nov 6 Creature Aurora Over Norway Copyrighted
- Nov 5 Kepler-78b: Earth-Sized Planet Discovered
- Nov 4 Eclipse Over New York Copyrighted
- Nov 3 A Rare Hybrid Solar Eclipse Copyrighted
- Nov 2 Jupiter's Triple Shadow Transit Copyrighted
- Nov 1 NGC 7841: The Smoke Nebula in Frustriaus Copyrighted
October 2013 (31)
- Oct 31 Night on a Spooky Planet Copyrighted
- Oct 30 A Spectre in the Eastern Veil Copyrighted
- Oct 29 Horsehead and Orion Nebulas Copyrighted
- Oct 28 The Great Comet of 1680 Over Rotterdam
- Oct 27 Sungrazer
- Oct 26 NGC 7789: Caroline's Rose Copyrighted
- Oct 25 NGC 7814: The Little Sombrero in Pegasus Copyrighted
- Oct 24 Little Planet Shadowrise Copyrighted
- Oct 23 North Celestial Tree Copyrighted
- Oct 22 A Massive Star in NGC 6357
- Oct 21 Saturn from Above
- Oct 20 Three Galaxies and a Comet Copyrighted
- Oct 19 Sh2-155: The Cave Nebula Copyrighted
- Oct 18 Venus, Zodiacal Light, and the Galactic Center Copyrighted
- Oct 17 ISON, Mars, Regulus Copyrighted
- Oct 16 Three Galaxies in Draco Copyrighted
- Oct 15 The Great Carina Nebula Copyrighted
- Oct 14 High Noon Analemma Over Azerbaijan Copyrighted
- Oct 13 Hale-Bopp: The Great Comet of 1997 Copyrighted
- Oct 12 Cometary Globules Copyrighted
- Oct 11 NGC 891 Edge-on Copyrighted
- Oct 10 M78: Stardust and Starlight Copyrighted
- Oct 9 Arp 94 Copyrighted
- Oct 8 The Bubble and M52 Copyrighted
- Oct 7 Comet ISON Approaches Copyrighted
- Oct 6 Hubble Remix: Active Galaxy NGC 1275
- Oct 5 October Aurora in Prairie Skies Copyrighted
- Oct 4 The Densest Galaxy
- Oct 3 M106 Close Up
- Oct 2 All the Colors of the Sun Copyrighted
- Oct 1 Filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant Copyrighted
September 2013 (30)
- Sep 30 Mysterious Green Patches on the Sky Video Copyrighted
- Sep 29 The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
- Sep 28 Equinox Earth
- Sep 27 Andromeda on the Rocks Copyrighted
- Sep 26 M31 versus M33 Copyrighted
- Sep 25 M81 versus M82 Copyrighted
- Sep 24 The Local Fluff
- Sep 23 IC 4628: The Prawn Nebula
- Sep 22 Apollo's Analemma Copyrighted
- Sep 21 Antares Rocket Launch
- Sep 20 Tomorrow's picture:
- Sep 19 Moon, Venus and Planet Earth Copyrighted
- Sep 18 M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster Copyrighted
- Sep 17 Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 Deflects Light
- Sep 16 Rotating Moon from LRO Video
- Sep 15 M2-9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula
- Sep 14 A Landing on Planet Earth
- Sep 13 Crescent Moon Meets Evening Star Copyrighted
- Sep 12 Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis Copyrighted
- Sep 11 LADEE Launch Streak Copyrighted
- Sep 10 Extrasolar Super-Earth Gliese 1214b Might Hold Water
- Sep 9 Nearby Cepheid Variable RS Pup
- Sep 8 Roll Cloud Over Wisconsin
- Sep 7 Night in the Andes Ice Forest Copyrighted
- Sep 6 The Quiet Sagittarius A*
- Sep 5 M1: The Incredible Expanding Crab Copyrighted
- Sep 4 IRAS 20324: Evaporating Protostar
- Sep 3 North America and the Pelican Copyrighted
- Sep 2 Milky Way Over Spain's Bardenas Reales Copyrighted
- Sep 1 Fire on Earth
August 2013 (31)
- Aug 31 NGC 5195: The Dot Under the Question Mark
- Aug 30 A Sagittarius Triplet Copyrighted
- Aug 29 Strawberry Sun Copyrighted
- Aug 28 A Retreating Thunderstorm at Sunset Copyrighted
- Aug 27 A Flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Video
- Aug 26 Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 from Hubble
- Aug 25 The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 271 Copyrighted
- Aug 24 Earth Waves at Saturn
- Aug 23 A Spectrum of Nova Delphini Copyrighted
- Aug 22 IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula Copyrighted
- Aug 21 Perseid Meteors Over China Copyrighted
- Aug 20 Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun
- Aug 19 Noctilucent Clouds and Aurora Over Scotland Video
- Aug 18 Skylab Over Earth
- Aug 17 M8: The Lagoon Nebula Copyrighted
- Aug 16 Gallery:
- Aug 15 The Magellanic Stream
- Aug 14 Moonset from Taiwan Copyrighted
- Aug 13 Perseid Meteors Over Ontario Copyrighted
- Aug 12 Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
- Aug 11 M74: The Perfect Spiral
- Aug 10 Perseids over Meteora Copyrighted
- Aug 9 Perseid over Albrechtsberg Castle Copyrighted
- Aug 8 NGC 3370: A Sharper View
- Aug 7 Meteors and Aurorae over Iceland Copyrighted
- Aug 6 In the Vicinity of the Cone Nebula
- Aug 5 Leaving Earth Video
- Aug 4 Io's Surface: Under Construction
- Aug 3 Twisting with NGC 3718 Copyrighted
- Aug 2 Tropic of Cancer Copyrighted
- Aug 1 Moon Over Andromeda Copyrighted
July 2013 (31)
- Jul 31 130 Years of Earth Surface Temperatures Video
- Jul 30 NGC 2392 from Hubble and Chandra
- Jul 29 Saturn, Titan, Rings, and Haze
- Jul 28 Hoag's Object: A Strange Ring Galaxy
- Jul 27 Atacama's Cloudy Night Copyrighted
- Jul 26 The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396 Copyrighted
- Jul 25 The Beautiful Trifid Copyrighted
- Jul 24 A Year of Sky on Earth Video Copyrighted
- Jul 23 Two Views of Earth
- Jul 22 Earth and Moon from Saturn
- Jul 21 The Seasons of Saturn
- Jul 20 Comet Lemmon and the Deep Sky Copyrighted
- Jul 19 Take a Picture of Saturn Copyrighted
- Jul 18 Hidden Galaxy IC 342 Copyrighted
- Jul 17 A Waterspout in Florida Copyrighted
- Jul 16 The Moon from Zond 8 Copyrighted
- Jul 15 The Sombrero Galaxy from Hale Copyrighted
- Jul 14 The Pillars of Eagle Castle Copyrighted
- Jul 13 Sunspot at Sunset Copyrighted
- Jul 12 Messier's Eleven Copyrighted
- Jul 11 Dusty Nebulae in Taurus Copyrighted
- Jul 10 Large Sunspots Now Crossing the Sun Copyrighted
- Jul 9 Supergiant Star Gamma Cygni Copyrighted
- Jul 8 Pluto's Newly Discovered Moons Receive Names
- Jul 7 NGC 2170: Still Life with Reflecting Dust Copyrighted
- Jul 6 NGC 6384: Spiral Beyond the Stars
- Jul 5 Globular Star Cluster NGC 6752 Copyrighted
- Jul 4 M82: Starburst Galaxy with a Superwind Copyrighted
- Jul 3 Stars and Lightning Over Greece Copyrighted
- Jul 2 Circling a Black Hole at its Photon Sphere Video Copyrighted
- Jul 1 Orbiting a Black Hole Video Copyrighted
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June 2013 (30)
- Jun 30 Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters Copyrighted
- Jun 29 PanSTARRS: The Anti Tail Comet Copyrighted
- Jun 28 A Super Moon's Halo Copyrighted
- Jun 27 Noctilucent Clouds over Moscow Copyrighted
- Jun 26 M31: The Andromeda Galaxy Copyrighted
- Jun 25 Rock Nest Panorama from Curiosity on Mars
- Jun 24 The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble
- Jun 23 Venus' Once Molten Surface
- Jun 22 Perigee's Full Moon Copyrighted
- Jun 21 A Solstice Sunset Self Portrait Copyrighted
- Jun 20 Edge-on NGC 3628 Copyrighted
- Jun 19 Milky Way Over Crater Lake with Airglow Copyrighted
- Jun 18 A Supercell Thunderstorm Over Texas Video Copyrighted
- Jun 17 Dry Ice Sled Streaks on Mars
- Jun 16 APOD Turns Eighteen Copyrighted
- Jun 15 Delphinid Meteor Mystery Copyrighted
- Jun 14 Sharpless 115 Copyrighted
- Jun 13 Four Planet Sunset Copyrighted
- Jun 12 All of Mercury Video
- Jun 11 Star Forming Region NGC 3582 Copyrighted
- Jun 10 The Large Magellanic Cloud in Ultraviolet
- Jun 9 Flowing Auroras Over Norway Video Copyrighted
- Jun 8 Messier Craters in Stereo
- Jun 7 NGC 6302: The Butterfly Nebula
- Jun 6 Star Size Comparisons Video Copyrighted
- Jun 5 M57: The Ring Nebula
- Jun 4 Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Copyrighted
- Jun 3 Curiosity: Wheels on Mars
- Jun 2 A Roll Cloud Over Uruguay
- Jun 1 The Milky Trail Copyrighted
May 2013 (31)
- May 31 The Eagle and The Swan Copyrighted
- May 30 One-Armed Spiral Galaxy NGC 4725
- May 29 NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula Copyrighted
- May 28 The Large Cloud of Magellan Copyrighted
- May 27 Bird Sun Dog Copyrighted
- May 26 PanSTARRS Anti-Tail Grows Copyrighted
- May 25 Lunar Corona over Cochem Castle Copyrighted
- May 24 Caterpillar Moon Copyrighted
- May 23 Messier 109 Copyrighted
- May 22 Red Sprite Lightning with Aurora Copyrighted
- May 21 The Red Rectangle Nebula from Hubble
- May 20 Blue Sun Bursting Copyrighted
- May 19 Earth's Richat Structure
- May 18 Comet PanSTARRS Anti-Tail Copyrighted
- May 17 The Waterfall and the World at Night Copyrighted
- May 16 Four X-class Flares
- May 15 Kepler's Supernova Remnant in X-Rays
- May 14 Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations Video
- May 13 Partial Solar Eclipse with Airplane Copyrighted
- May 12 Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus Copyrighted
- May 11 Cape York Annular Eclipse Copyrighted
- May 10 Messier 77
- May 9 Ring of Fire over Monument Valley Copyrighted
- May 8 Earth's Major Telescopes Investigate GRB 130427A
- May 7 Galaxy Cove Vista Copyrighted
- May 6 Tails of Comet Lemmon Copyrighted
- May 5 A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana Copyrighted
- May 4 Hungarian Spring Eclipse Copyrighted
- May 3 Horsehead: A Wider View
- May 2 Saturn Hurricane
- May 1 Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Cluster Copyrighted
April 2013 (30)
- Apr 30 Humanity Explores the Solar System
- Apr 29 Milky Way and Stone Tree Copyrighted
- Apr 28 A Raging Storm System on Saturn
- Apr 27 Sharp Stereo
- Apr 26 A Year on the Sun
- Apr 25 Lunar Eclipses Copyrighted
- Apr 24 Wringing a Wet Towel in Orbit Video
- Apr 23 X-rays from Supernova Remnant SN 1006
- Apr 22 The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble
- Apr 21 The Big Dipper Copyrighted
- Apr 20 Airglow, Gegenschein, and Milky Way Copyrighted
- Apr 19 NGC 1788 and the Witch's Whiskers Copyrighted
- Apr 18 Star Factory Messier 17
- Apr 17 Mt. Hood and a Lenticular Cloud Copyrighted
- Apr 16 Grand Spiral Galaxy M81 and Arp's Loop Copyrighted
- Apr 15 IC 1848: The Soul Nebula Copyrighted
- Apr 14 Crescent Neptune and Triton
- Apr 13 Sun with Solar Flare
- Apr 12 Yuri's Planet
- Apr 11 Darkened City Copyrighted
- Apr 10 Space Station Lookout Copyrighted
- Apr 9 NGC 3132: The Southern Ring Nebula
- Apr 8 A Redshift Lookup Table for our Universe
- Apr 7 The Moon's Saturn Copyrighted
- Apr 6 Earth at Twilight
- Apr 5 Comet of the North Copyrighted
- Apr 4 M64: The Black Eye Galaxy Copyrighted
- Apr 3 Comet PANSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy Copyrighted
- Apr 2 IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula Copyrighted
- Apr 1 The Whole Quiz:
March 2013 (31)
- Mar 31 Flying Over the Earth at Night Video
- Mar 30 The Broad Tail of PanSTARRS Copyrighted
- Mar 29 Ringside with Rhea
- Mar 28 Unraveling NGC 3169 Copyrighted
- Mar 27 A Horizon Rainbow in Paris Copyrighted
- Mar 26 Waterfalls, Auroras, Comet: Iceland Copyrighted
- Mar 25 Planck Maps the Microwave Background
- Mar 24 Dust Pillar of the Carina Nebula
- Mar 23 Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud
- Mar 22 Comet Castle Copyrighted
- Mar 21 NGC 2736: The Pencil Nebula Copyrighted
- Mar 20 M42: Inside the Orion Nebula Copyrighted
- Mar 19 GRAIL Maps the Moon's Gravity Copyrighted
- Mar 18 Comet PANSTARRS Just After Sunset Copyrighted
- Mar 17 Light Echoes from V838 Mon
- Mar 16 PanSTARRS from France Copyrighted
- Mar 15 CME, Comet and Planet Earth
- Mar 14 Clouds, Comet and Crescent Moon Copyrighted
- Mar 13 NGC 6751: The Glowing Eye Nebula
- Mar 12 Spin up of a Supermassive Black Hole
- Mar 11 Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning Copyrighted
- Mar 10 Milky Way Panorama from Mauna Kea Copyrighted
- Mar 9 PanSTARRS over Parkes Copyrighted
- Mar 8 Looking Through Abell 68
- Mar 7 Thor's Helmet Copyrighted
- Mar 6 Tardigrade in Moss Copyrighted
- Mar 5 Comets Lemmon and PanSTARRS Peaking Copyrighted
- Mar 4 IC 1805: The Heart Nebula Copyrighted
- Mar 3 Grand Canyon Star Trails Copyrighted
- Mar 2 Miass River Sunrise Copyrighted
- Mar 1 Colors of Mercury
February 2013 (27)
- Feb 28 Snow Moon for a Snowy Planet Copyrighted
- Feb 27 Asperatus Clouds Over New Zealand Copyrighted
- Feb 26 Coronal Rain on the Sun Video
- Feb 25 Fly Me to the Moons Copyrighted
- Feb 24 M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy in Dust and Stars
- Feb 23 Chelyabinsk Meteor Flash Copyrighted
- Feb 22 Curiosity Self-Portrait Panorama
- Feb 21 Gravitational Tractor Copyrighted
- Feb 20 Saturn's Hexagon and Rings
- Feb 19 Mercury on the Horizon Copyrighted
- Feb 17 Asteroid 2012 DA14 Passes the Earth Video Copyrighted
- Feb 16 Sweeping Through Southern Skies Copyrighted
- Feb 15 Shadows Across Jupiter Copyrighted
- Feb 14 Solar System Portrait
- Feb 13 Infrared Orion from WISE
- Feb 12 Reflected Aurora Over Alaska Copyrighted
- Feb 11 N11: Star Clouds of the LMC
- Feb 10 Asteroids in the Distance
- Feb 9 The Great Meteor Procession of 1913 Copyrighted
- Feb 8 NGC 6822: Barnard's Galaxy Copyrighted
- Feb 7 Comet Lemmon near the South Celestial Pole Copyrighted
- Feb 6 The Arms of M106
- Feb 5 Mars: Shadow at Point Lake
- Feb 4 Namibian Nights Video Copyrighted
- Feb 3 LL Ori and the Orion Nebula
- Feb 2 Herschel's Andromeda
- Feb 1 Atlas V Launches TDRS-K Copyrighted
January 2013 (31)
- Jan 31 NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad Copyrighted
- Jan 30 Full Moon Silhouettes Video Copyrighted
- Jan 29 Apollo 16: Driving on the Moon Video
- Jan 28 In the Center of the Trifid Nebula
- Jan 27 Comet McNaught Over Chile Copyrighted
- Jan 26 Alaskan Moondogs Copyrighted
- Jan 25 Matijevic Hill Panorama
- Jan 24 ISS and the Summer Milky Way Copyrighted
- Jan 23 Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945 Copyrighted
- Jan 22 The Cygnus Wall of Star Formation Copyrighted
- Jan 21 Huygens: Titan Descent Movie Video
- Jan 20 The Antikythera Mechanism
- Jan 19 Barnard Stares at NGC 2170 Copyrighted
- Jan 18 Stickney Crater
- Jan 17 Cas A: Optical and X-ray
- Jan 16 NGC 1309: Spiral Galaxy and Friends
- Jan 15 A Solar Ballet Video
- Jan 14 NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life Copyrighted
- Jan 13 NGC 602 and Beyond
- Jan 12 Ten Billion Earths
- Jan 11 The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies Copyrighted
- Jan 10 The Orion Bullets
- Jan 9 The Elusive Jellyfish Nebula Copyrighted
- Jan 8 Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 7424 Copyrighted
- Jan 7 AE Aurigae and the Flaming Star Nebula Copyrighted
- Jan 6 The Dark Tower in Scorpius Copyrighted
- Jan 5 Stereo Helene
- Jan 4 Sunrise at Tycho
- Jan 3 Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158 Copyrighted
- Jan 2 The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens Copyrighted
- Jan 1 A Double Star Cluster Copyrighted
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