Astronomy Picture of the Day · 2015
APOD 2015
363 entries from 2015: 341 images and 22 videos. 232 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 31, 2015 Solstice Sun at Lulworth Cove
Image Credit & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos ( GreekSky )
November 30, 2015 In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and S. Smartt ( Queen’s University Belfast ); Acknowledgement: Robert Gendler
October 31, 2015 Ghosts and Star Trails
Image Credit & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos ( GreekSky )
September 30, 2015 Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent Flowing Water on Mars
Image Credit: NASA , JPL , U. Arizona
August 31, 2015 Pluto in Enhanced Color
Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins Univ./APL , Southwest Research Inst.
July 31, 2015 The ISS and a Colorful Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Dylan O’DonnellThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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December 2015 (31)
- Dec 31 Solstice Sun at Lulworth Cove Copyrighted
- Dec 30 The Fox Fur Nebula Copyrighted
- Dec 29 Dust of the Orion Nebula Copyrighted
- Dec 28 Falcon 9 First Stage Landing Video
- Dec 27 Doomed Star Eta Carinae
- Dec 26 Southern Craters and Galaxies Copyrighted
- Dec 25 To Scale: The Solar System Video Copyrighted
- Dec 24 Star Colors and Pinyon Pine Copyrighted
- Dec 23 Geminid Meteors over Xinglong Observatory Copyrighted
- Dec 22 Solstice Illuminated: A Year of Sky Video Copyrighted
- Dec 21 SN Refsdal: The First Predicted Supernova Image
- Dec 20 A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite
- Dec 19 Star Streams and the Whale Galaxy Copyrighted
- Dec 18 Herbig-Haro 24
- Dec 17 Geminids of the South Copyrighted
- Dec 16 The Horsehead Nebula Copyrighted
- Dec 15 Colorful Arcs over Buenos Aires Copyrighted
- Dec 14 Pluto: From Mountains to Plains
- Dec 13 When Gemini Sends Stars to Paranal Copyrighted
- Dec 12 Comet Meets Moon and Morning Star Copyrighted
- Dec 11 The Brightest Spot on Ceres
- Dec 10 Daytime Moon Meets Morning Star Copyrighted
- Dec 9 Arp 87: Merging Galaxies from Hubble
- Dec 8 Icelandic Legends and Aurora Copyrighted
- Dec 7 Comet Catalina Emerges Copyrighted
- Dec 6 A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect Copyrighted
- Dec 5 Kepler Orrery IV Video Copyrighted
- Dec 4 Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent Copyrighted
- Dec 3 Enceladus: Ringside Water World
- Dec 2 Golden Gate Sunset: Green Flash Video Copyrighted
- Dec 1 Nebulae in Auriga Copyrighted
November 2015 (30)
- Nov 30 In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521
- Nov 29 Dark Sand Cascades on Mars
- Nov 28 Rosetta and Comet Outbound Copyrighted
- Nov 27 Gravity's Grin
- Nov 26 Planets of the Morning Copyrighted
- Nov 25 Unusual Pits Discovered on Pluto
- Nov 24 Aurora over Clouds Copyrighted
- Nov 23 A 212-Hour Exposure of Orion Copyrighted
- Nov 22 Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars
- Nov 21 Recycling NGC 5291 Copyrighted
- Nov 20 Leonids and Friends Copyrighted
- Nov 19 Centaurus A Copyrighted
- Nov 18 A Sudden Jet on Comet 67P
- Nov 17 The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars Copyrighted
- Nov 16 A Blazing Fireball between the Orion Nebula and Rigel Copyrighted
- Nov 15 Leonids Over Monument Valley Copyrighted
- Nov 14 Wright Mons on Pluto
- Nov 13 The Tadpoles of IC 410 Copyrighted
- Nov 12 Kenya Morning Moon, Planets, and Taurid Copyrighted
- Nov 11 An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco Copyrighted
- Nov 10 AE Aurigae and the Flaming Star Nebula Copyrighted
- Nov 9 Assembly of The International Space Station Video
- Nov 8 A Quadruple Sky Over Great Salt Lake Copyrighted
- Nov 7 Earth and Milky Way from Space
- Nov 6 Unraveling NGC 3169 Copyrighted
- Nov 5 NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus Copyrighted
- Nov 4 The Great Orion Nebula M42 Copyrighted
- Nov 3 Seeking Venus under the Spitzkoppe Arch Copyrighted
- Nov 2 Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun Video
- Nov 1 The Milky Way Over Monument Valley Copyrighted
October 2015 (31)
- Oct 31 Ghosts and Star Trails Copyrighted
- Oct 30 The Witch Head Nebula Copyrighted
- Oct 29 IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula Copyrighted
- Oct 28 Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star Video
- Oct 27 Bright from the Heart Nebula Copyrighted
- Oct 26 Charon and the Small Moons of Pluto
- Oct 25 Jupiter and Venus from Earth Copyrighted
- Oct 24 Jupiter in 2015
- Oct 23 Starburst Galaxy Messier 94
- Oct 22 Star Factory Messier 17 Copyrighted
- Oct 21 The Fractured North Pole of Saturn's Enceladus
- Oct 20 When Black Holes Collide Video Copyrighted
- Oct 19 The Southern Cross in a Southern Sky Copyrighted
- Oct 18 Mammatus Clouds Over Saskatchewan
- Oct 17 Bright Spiral Galaxy M81 Copyrighted
- Oct 16 Night Hides the World Copyrighted
- Oct 15 M16 and the Eagle Nebula Copyrighted
- Oct 14 A Gegenschein Lunar Eclipse Copyrighted
- Oct 13 The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396 Copyrighted
- Oct 12 Galaxy, Stars, and Dust Copyrighted
- Oct 11 In the Center of the Trifid Nebula
- Oct 10 Stardust in Perseus Copyrighted
- Oct 9 The Moon Entering Earth's Shadow Copyrighted
- Oct 8 M83: The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy Copyrighted
- Oct 7 La Palma Eclipse Sequence Copyrighted
- Oct 6 Flying Past Pluto Video
- Oct 5 Orion Over and Under Tibet Copyrighted
- Oct 4 The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared
- Oct 3 A Blue Blood Moon Copyrighted
- Oct 2 Charon: Moon of Pluto
- Oct 1 Eclipsed in Southern Skies Copyrighted
September 2015 (30)
- Sep 30 Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent Flowing Water on Mars
- Sep 29 Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and Lightning Storm Copyrighted
- Sep 28 Total Lunar Eclipse over Waterton Lake Copyrighted
- Sep 27 Tonight: A Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Video
- Sep 26 M31 versus M33 Copyrighted
- Sep 25 Pluto's Snakeskin Terrain
- Sep 24 LDN 988 and Friends Copyrighted
- Sep 23 Antarctic Analemma Copyrighted
- Sep 22 Milky Way over Bosque Alegre Station in Argentina Copyrighted
- Sep 21 Spiral Galaxy M96 from Hubble
- Sep 20 Global Ocean Suspected on Saturn's Enceladus
- Sep 19 A Prominence on the Sun Copyrighted
- Sep 18 A Plutonian Landscape
- Sep 17 Pickering's Triangle in the Veil Copyrighted
- Sep 16 Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres
- Sep 15 A Spiral Aurora over Iceland Copyrighted
- Sep 14 Pluto from above Cthulhu Regio
- Sep 13 A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas Copyrighted
- Sep 12 ISS Double Transit Copyrighted
- Sep 11 A Giant Squid in the Flying Bat Copyrighted
- Sep 10 NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad Copyrighted
- Sep 9 NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide Copyrighted
- Sep 8 Distorted Green Flash Sunset over Italy Copyrighted
- Sep 7 The Shark Nebula Copyrighted
- Sep 6 Earthrise
- Sep 5 Atlas V Rising Copyrighted
- Sep 4 Milky Way with Airglow Australis Copyrighted
- Sep 3 Arp 159 and NGC 4725 Copyrighted
- Sep 2 The Flare and the Galaxy Copyrighted
- Sep 1 Distant Neutrinos Detected Below Antarctic Ice
August 2015 (31)
- Aug 31 Pluto in Enhanced Color
- Aug 30 M31: The Andromeda Galaxy Copyrighted
- Aug 29 The Seagull Nebula Copyrighted
- Aug 28 Puppis A Supernova Remnant Copyrighted
- Aug 27 The Large Cloud of Magellan Copyrighted
- Aug 26 Collinder 399: The Coat Hanger Copyrighted
- Aug 25 Meteors and Milky Way over Mount Rainier Copyrighted
- Aug 24 Dione, Rings, Shadows, Saturn
- Aug 23 Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Images
- Aug 22 Little Planet Curiosity
- Aug 21 Sprites from Space
- Aug 20 M27: Not a Comet Copyrighted
- Aug 19 Central Cygnus Skyscape Copyrighted
- Aug 18 Announcing Comet Catalina Copyrighted
- Aug 17 Andromeda Rising over the Alps Copyrighted
- Aug 16 M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble
- Aug 15 Perihelion Approaches
- Aug 14 Comet Dust over Enchanted Rock Copyrighted
- Aug 13 Moonless Meteors and the Milky Way Copyrighted
- Aug 12 Milky Way and Exploding Meteor Copyrighted
- Aug 11 A Blue Moon Halo over Antarctica Copyrighted
- Aug 10 A Sagittarius Triplet Copyrighted
- Aug 9 HCG 87: A Small Group of Galaxies
- Aug 8 Curiosity's View
- Aug 7 Full Moon, Full Earth
- Aug 6 Stereo Pluto
- Aug 5 X-ray Echoes from Circinus X-1
- Aug 4 Virgo Cluster Galaxies Copyrighted
- Aug 3 A Proton Arc Over Lake Superior Copyrighted
- Aug 2 Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater
- Aug 1 Stripping ESO 137-001
July 2015 (31)
- Jul 31 The ISS and a Colorful Moon Copyrighted
- Jul 30 Milky Way over Uluru Copyrighted
- Jul 29 The Deep Lagoon Copyrighted
- Jul 28 Rainbows and Rays over Bryce Canyon Copyrighted
- Jul 27 Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica Copyrighted
- Jul 26 The Sombrero Galaxy from Hubble
- Jul 25 Infrared Trifid
- Jul 24 Ultraviolet Rings of M31
- Jul 23 Comet PanSTARRS, Moon, and Venus Copyrighted
- Jul 22 Gamma-ray Rain from 3C 279 Video
- Jul 21 Comet Tails and Star Trails Copyrighted
- Jul 20 Comet PanSTARRS and a Crescent Moon Copyrighted
- Jul 19 The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral
- Jul 18 Fly Over Pluto Video
- Jul 17 Charon
- Jul 16 50 Miles on Pluto
- Jul 15 Pluto Resolved Copyrighted
- Jul 14 New Horizons Passes Pluto and Charon Copyrighted
- Jul 13 Last Look at Pluto's Charon Side Copyrighted
- Jul 12 New Horizons Launch to Pluto Copyrighted
- Jul 11 Geology on Pluto
- Jul 10 Messier 43 Copyrighted
- Jul 9 5 Million Miles from Pluto
- Jul 8 In the Company of Dione
- Jul 7 The Milky Way from a Malibu Sea Cave Copyrighted
- Jul 6 Colorful Clouds Near Rho Ophiuchi Copyrighted
- Jul 5 Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
- Jul 4 Aurora Australis Copyrighted
- Jul 3 Venus and Jupiter are Far Copyrighted
- Jul 2 Venus and Jupiter are Close Copyrighted
- Jul 1 Venus, Jupiter, and Noctilucent Clouds Copyrighted
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June 2015 (30)
- Jun 30 An Unusual Mountain on Asteroid Ceres
- Jun 29 Sunspot Group AR 2339 Crosses the Sun Video Copyrighted
- Jun 28 All the Colors of the Sun Copyrighted
- Jun 27 Stars of a Summer's Triangle Copyrighted
- Jun 26 Planet Aurora
- Jun 25 Star Trails above Table Mountain Copyrighted
- Jun 24 Triple Conjunction Over Galician National Park Copyrighted
- Jun 23 Sharpless 308: Star Bubble Copyrighted
- Jun 22 New Horizons Video Copyrighted
- Jun 21 Rings and Seasons of Saturn Copyrighted
- Jun 20 Hubble's Messier 5
- Jun 19 LightSail A
- Jun 18 M64: The Black Eye Galaxy Copyrighted
- Jun 17 M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster Copyrighted
- Jun 16 APOD is 20 Years Old Today Copyrighted
- Jun 15 A Colorful Lunar Corona Copyrighted
- Jun 14 M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy Copyrighted
- Jun 13 1000 Sols
- Jun 12 The Medusa Nebula Copyrighted
- Jun 11 The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty Copyrighted
- Jun 10 Fly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres Video
- Jun 9 Galaxy NGC 7714 After Collision
- Jun 8 The Milky Way over the Temple of Poseidon Copyrighted
- Jun 7 NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
- Jun 6 Into the Void
- Jun 5 Green Flash at Moonrise Copyrighted
- Jun 4 NGC 2419: Intergalactic Wanderer Copyrighted
- Jun 3 Flyby Image of Saturn's Sponge Moon Hyperion
- Jun 2 Polaris and Comet Lovejoy Copyrighted
- Jun 1 Pulsating Aurora over Iceland Video Copyrighted
May 2015 (31)
- May 31 Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe
- May 30 Messier Craters in Stereo
- May 29 Saturn at Opposition Copyrighted
- May 28 Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945 Copyrighted
- May 27 Approaching Pluto Video
- May 26 Starburst Galaxy M94 Copyrighted
- May 25 The Galaxy Tree Copyrighted
- May 24 Space Shuttle Rising
- May 23 NGC 7822 in Cepheus Copyrighted
- May 22 A Dark and Dusty Sky Copyrighted
- May 21 NGC 6240: Merging Galaxies
- May 20 A Cliff Looming on Comet 67P
- May 19 Globular Star Cluster 47 Tuc
- May 18 Auroras and Star Trails over Iceland Copyrighted
- May 17 NGC 2440: Pearl of a New White Dwarf
- May 16 Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited
- May 15 Jupiter, Ganymede, Great Red Spot Copyrighted
- May 14 Dwarf Planet, Bright Spot
- May 13 The Magnificent Horsehead Nebula Copyrighted
- May 12 Two Worlds, One Sun Copyrighted
- May 11 The Sky from Mauna Kea Copyrighted
- May 10 MyCn18: An Hourglass Planetary Nebula
- May 9 Trio Leo Copyrighted
- May 8 When Vega is North Copyrighted
- May 7 At the Limit of Diffraction Copyrighted
- May 6 Summer Triangles over Japan Copyrighted
- May 5 Gravitational Anomalies of Mercury
- May 4 An Unexpected Aurora over Norway Copyrighted
- May 3 Moonrise Through Mauna Kea's Shadow Copyrighted
- May 2 M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy Copyrighted
- May 1 MESSENGER's Last Day on Mercury
April 2015 (29)
- Apr 30 Across the Sun Copyrighted
- Apr 29 Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko in Crescent
- Apr 28 Massive Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 Copyrighted
- Apr 27 Space Station over Lunar Terminator Copyrighted
- Apr 26 Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
- Apr 25 Cluster and Starforming Region Westerlund 2 Copyrighted
- Apr 24 Blue Tears and the Milky Way Copyrighted
- Apr 23 Meteor in the Milky Way Copyrighted
- Apr 22 Colorful Star Clouds in Cygnus Copyrighted
- Apr 20 Total Solar Eclipse over Svalbard Copyrighted
- Apr 19 Ring Galaxy AM 0644-741 from Hubble
- Apr 18 The Great Crater Hokusai
- Apr 17 M46 Plus Two Copyrighted
- Apr 16 One-Armed Spiral Galaxy NGC 4725 Copyrighted
- Apr 15 Mystic Mountain Dust Pillars Copyrighted
- Apr 14 Through the Shadow of the Moon Video Copyrighted
- Apr 13 Milky Way over Erupting Volcano Copyrighted
- Apr 12 Sentinels of the Arctic Copyrighted
- Apr 11 Venus in the West Copyrighted
- Apr 10 NGC 2903: A Missing Jewel in Leo Copyrighted
- Apr 9 A Golden Gate Eclipse Copyrighted
- Apr 8 Full Moon in Earth's Shadow Copyrighted
- Apr 7 In the Heart of the Virgo Cluster Copyrighted
- Apr 6 NGC 3293: A Bright Young Star Cluster
- Apr 5 Saturn, Tethys, Rings, and Shadows
- Apr 4 Voorwerpjes in Space
- Apr 3 Sun and Moon Halo Copyrighted
- Apr 2 The Owl and the Galaxy Copyrighted
- Apr 1 Suiting Up for the Moon Copyrighted
March 2015 (31)
- Mar 31 Corona from Svalbard Copyrighted
- Mar 30 A Flag Shaped Aurora over Sweden Copyrighted
- Mar 29 Shadow of a Martian Robot
- Mar 28 Diamond Rings and Baily's Beads Copyrighted
- Mar 27 NGC 2403 in Camelopardalis Copyrighted
- Mar 26 Orion Spring Copyrighted
- Mar 25 Naked Eye Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2 Copyrighted
- Mar 24 Powers of Ten Video Copyrighted
- Mar 23 Atlas V Launches MMS Copyrighted
- Mar 22 A Double Eclipse of the Sun Copyrighted
- Mar 21 Northern Equinox Eclipse Copyrighted
- Mar 20 Sunshine, Earthshine
- Mar 19 Aurora in the Backyard Copyrighted
- Mar 18 Earth During a Total Eclipse of the Sun
- Mar 17 The Big Dipper Enhanced Copyrighted
- Mar 16 The Clouds of Orion the Hunter Copyrighted
- Mar 15 A Total Eclipse at the End of the World Copyrighted
- Mar 14 Return at Sunrise
- Mar 13 The Great Wall by Moonlight Copyrighted
- Mar 12 Along the Cygnus Wall Copyrighted
- Mar 11 Volcano of Fire Erupts Under the Stars Copyrighted
- Mar 10 Aurora over Icelandic Glacier Copyrighted
- Mar 9 Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova
- Mar 8 Stars at the Galactic Center
- Mar 7 NGC 602 in the Flying Lizard Nebula Copyrighted
- Mar 6 Cometary Globule CG4 Copyrighted
- Mar 5 Enhanced Color Caloris
- Mar 4 Pillars and Jets in the Pelican Nebula Copyrighted
- Mar 3 A Dust Devil on Mars
- Mar 2 Lenticular Cloud, Moon, Mars, Venus Copyrighted
- Mar 1 Inside the Coma Cluster of Galaxies
February 2015 (28)
- Feb 28 Moon-Venus-Mars Skyline Copyrighted
- Feb 27 Long Lovejoy and Little Dumbbell Copyrighted
- Feb 26 Love and War by Moonlight Copyrighted
- Feb 25 The Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen Copyrighted
- Feb 24 Unusual Plumes Above Mars Video Copyrighted
- Feb 23 The Milky Way Over the Arizona Toadstools Copyrighted
- Feb 22 The Dark River to Antares Copyrighted
- Feb 21 45 Days in the Sun Copyrighted
- Feb 20 An Evening Sky Conjunction Copyrighted
- Feb 19 Palomar 12
- Feb 18 Dark Craters and Bright Spots Revealed on Asteroid Ceres
- Feb 17 Fibrils Flower on the Sun Copyrighted
- Feb 16 M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center
- Feb 15 Two Hours Before Neptune
- Feb 14 Solar System Portrait
- Feb 13 Aurora on Ice Copyrighted
- Feb 12 Exploring the Antennae
- Feb 11 M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy
- Feb 10 An Extremely Long Filament on the Sun Copyrighted
- Feb 9 Layered Rocks near Mount Sharp on Mars
- Feb 8 Carina Nebula Dust Pillar
- Feb 7 An Aurora of Marbles Copyrighted
- Feb 6 Jupiter Triple-Moon Conjunction
- Feb 5 M104: The Sombrero Galaxy
- Feb 4 Stars, Sprites, Clouds, Auroras Copyrighted
- Feb 3 Jets from Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
- Feb 2 Titan Seas Reflect Sunlight
- Feb 1 NGC 4676: When Mice Collide
January 2015 (30)
- Jan 31 Yellow Balls in W33
- Jan 30 A Night at Poker Flat
- Jan 29 Close Encounter with M44 Copyrighted
- Jan 28 Comet Lovejoy in a Winter Sky
- Jan 27 Our Galaxy's Magnetic Field from Planck Copyrighted
- Jan 26 The Milky Way over the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations Copyrighted
- Jan 25 A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence Video
- Jan 24 Light from Cygnus A
- Jan 23 Interior View
- Jan 22 Launch to Lovejoy Copyrighted
- Jan 21 The Complex Ion Tail of Comet Lovejoy Copyrighted
- Jan 20 Approaching Asteroid Ceres
- Jan 19 Infrared Orion from WISE Copyrighted
- Jan 18 The Galactic Core in Infrared
- Jan 17 Comet Lovejoy's Tail Copyrighted
- Jan 16 Huygens Lands on Titan
- Jan 15 Venus and Mercury at Sunset Copyrighted
- Jan 14 The Hunter, the Bull, and Lovejoy Copyrighted
- Jan 13 The Soap Bubble Nebula Copyrighted
- Jan 11 Cataclysmic Dawn Copyrighted
- Jan 10 The Windmill's Moon Copyrighted
- Jan 9 In the Arms of NGC 1097 Copyrighted
- Jan 8 Stars and Dust in Corona Australis Copyrighted
- Jan 7 Hubble 25th Anniversary: Pillars of Creation
- Jan 6 100 Million Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy
- Jan 5 A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree Copyrighted
- Jan 4 Crescent Rhea Occults Crescent Saturn
- Jan 3 Apollo 17: A Stereo View from Lunar Orbit
- Jan 2 At the Heart of Orion Copyrighted
- Jan 1 Vela Supernova Remnant Copyrighted
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