FEBRUARY 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERYThe First Explorer
Credit: Courtesy of Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationVenus and Jupiter in Morning Skies
Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationLight Echoes from V838 Mon
Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationA Spider Shaped Crater on Mercury
Credit: MESSENGER, NASA, JHU APL, CIW
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationThree Month Composite of Comet Holmes
Credit & Copyright: John Pane
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationA Sunspot in the New Solar Cycle
Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationNGC 4013 and the Tidal Stream
Image Credit & Copyright: R Jay Gabany (Blackbird Observatory) - collaboration; D.Martínez-Delgado(IAC, MPIA), M.Pohlen (Cardiff), S.Majewski (U.Virginia), J.Peñarrubia (U.Victoria), C.Palma (Penn State)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationThe Bay of Rainbows
Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationAtlantis on Pad 39A
Image Credit: NASA, Kim Shiflett
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationAbell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens
Credit: Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationSaturn's Moon Epimetheus from the Cassini Spacecraft
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationEchoes from RS Pup
Credit: Pierre Kervella (Obs. de Paris), Antoine Mérand (CHARA), et al., ESO
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationElliptical Galaxy NGC 1132
Credit: NASA, ESA, M. West (ESO, Chile), and CXC / Penn. State / G. Garmire, et al.
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationLong Stem Rosette
Credit & Copyright: Adam Block (Caelum Observatory) and Tim Puckett
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationYoung Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud
Credit: NASA JPL-Caltech, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationLarge Binocular Telescope
Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip (TWAN)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationM1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester, A. Loll (ASU); Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (Skyfactory)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationBLG-109: A Distant Version of our own Solar System
Illustration Credit: KASI, CBNU, ARCSEC, NSF
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationColumbus Laboratory Installed on Space Station
Credit: STS-122 Crew, Expedition 16 Crew, ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationMoon Slide Slim
Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip (TWAN)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationOrion's Horsehead Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Victor Bertol
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationEclipsed Moonlight
Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationStereo Space Station
Credit: STS-122, NASA - Stereo Anaglyph: Patrick Vantuyne
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationNGC 4676: When Mice Collide
Credit: ACS Science & Engineering Team, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationDawn of the Large Hadron Collider
Credit & Copyright: Maximilien Brice, CERN
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationMysterious Acid Haze on Venus
Credit: ESA/MPS, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationThe Eagle Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur
Credit & Copyright: IAC, Daniel Lopez
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationISS: Sunlight to Shadow
Credit & Copyright: Till Credner, AlltheSky.com
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationTwelve Lunar Eclipses
Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)
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JANUARY 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERYRays from an Unexpected Aurora
Credit & Copyright: Lyndon Anderson (Prairie Journal)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationA Galaxy is not a Comet
Credit & Copyright: Emiel Kempen
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationGeminids in 2007
Credit & Copyright: Erno Berko
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationThe Milky Way at 5000 Meters
Credit & Copyright: Serge Brunier
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationM51: Cosmic Whirlpool
Credit: S. Beckwith (STScI) Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationJupiter's Rings Revealed
Credit: (NOAO), J. Burns (Cornell) et al., Galileo Project, JPL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationQuadrantid Meteors and Aurora from the Air
Credit: Jeremie Vaubaillon et al., Caltech, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationA Jupiter-Io Montage from New Horizons
Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationHidden Galaxy IC 342 from Kitt Peak
Credit & Copyright: T. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), H. Schweiker, WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationActive Galaxy Centaurus A
Credit: X-ray - NASA, CXC, R.Kraft (CfA), et al.; Radio - NSF, VLA, M.Hardcastle (U Hertfordshire) et al.; Optical - ESO, M.Rejkuba (ESO-Garching) et al.
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationPolaris Dust Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Mandel (Hidden Valley Observatory) Research Collaboration: Adolf Witt (University of Toledo) et al.
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationMercury Chases the Sunset
Image Credit & Copyright: Doug Zubenel
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationHurricane Ivan from the Space Station
Credit: Expedition 9 Crew, International Space Station, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationThe Cocoon Nebula from CFHT
Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationDouble Supernova Remnants DEM L316
Credit & Copyright: Gemini Observatory, GMOS-South, NSF
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationMESSENGER Passes Mercury
Credit: MESSENGER Teams, JHU APL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationThor's Emerald Helmet
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationSupernova Factory NGC 2770
Credit: A. de Ugarte Postigo (ESO) et al., Dark Cosmology Centre (NBI, KU), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), University of Hertfordshire
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationStarry Night Castle
Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationComet McNaught Over Chile
Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationMercury's Horizon from MESSENGER
Credit: MESSENGER Teams, JHU APL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationShelf Cloud Over Saskatchewan
Credit: Jeff Kerr
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationOrbiting Astronaut Reflects Earth
Credit: Clayton C. Anderson, Expedition 15 Crew, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationAndromeda Island Universe
Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationWinter Night at Pic du Midi
Credit & Copyright: Alain Sallez (picdumidi.org), David Romeuf (Université Lyon 1)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationCrescent Mercury in Color
Credit: MESSENGER, NASA, JHU APL, CIW
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationMercury on the Horizon
Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationA Solar Eclipse Painting from the 1700s
Painting Credit: Cosmas Damian Asam; Digital Image Copyright: Jay Pasachoff
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationWest Valley Panorama from the Spirit Rover on Mars
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationAsteroid 2007 TU24 Passes the Earth
Credit: Green Bank Radio Telescope, Arecibo Radio Telescope
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationYoung Star Cluster Westerlund 2
Credit: X-ray; Y.Nazé, G.Rauw, J.Manfroid (Université de Liège), CXC, NASA—Infrared; E.Churchwell (University of Wisconsin), JPL, Caltech, NASA
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