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Being ever mindful that to avoid repeating past mistakes one must have full knowledge of the past.A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-64801011827862021772009-01-05T10:20:00.004-07:002009-09-20T15:42:13.918-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>APRIL 2009 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Astronaut's Head Upgraded During Spacewalk<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090401.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfpeIyhVcPI/AAAAAAAALmc/cO8W_aQz9ZY/s400/2009-04-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330676614039957746" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">100 Hours of Astronomy Begins<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090402.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfpeI7TGI3I/AAAAAAAALmU/_LlMbGuSL80/s400/2009-04-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330676616396153714" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Around the World in 80 Telescopes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090403.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfpeIoYM_XI/AAAAAAAALmM/oTLFCI4ZQSY/s400/2009-04-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330676611317300594" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Illustration Credit & Copyright: ESO / 100 Hours of Astronomy<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Star Party on Planet Earth<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090404.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfpeIsLywEI/AAAAAAAALmE/2WmfuKU_DgU/s400/2009-04-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330676612338991170" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Orange Sun Oozing<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090405.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfpeITxIsSI/AAAAAAAALl8/trenGBB21kE/s400/2009-04-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330676605784731938" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño et al. (IAG & MPS, NRL)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">International Space Station Expands Again<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090406.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfpegUl6X6I/AAAAAAAALnE/2DvRSomJVuc/s400/2009-04-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330677018322952098" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: STS-119 Shuttle Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 274<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090407.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 231px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfpegLrZtNI/AAAAAAAALm8/s05nHHuc31U/s400/2009-04-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330677015930057938" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Livio (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Unusual Dusty Galaxy NGC 7049<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090408.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 363px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfpegFguP9I/AAAAAAAALm0/sJnPRDN8ohs/s400/2009-04-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330677014274654162" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA and W. Harris (McMaster University)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Venus Near Inferior Conjunction<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090409.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 347px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sfpef5Gyi6I/AAAAAAAALms/VPvY8kwT4Eg/s400/2009-04-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330677010944658338" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Eddie Guscott<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">ISS and Astronaut<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090410.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sfpef_RuCkI/AAAAAAAALmk/3wBmxHAqIq0/s400/2009-04-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330677012601113154" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Ralf Vandebergh<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Big Picture<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090411.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sfpez2cwwBI/AAAAAAAALns/eS-Uwo1S7uI/s400/2009-04-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330677353828892690" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dennis di Cicco (TWAN) & Sean Walker, Skyandtelescope.com<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M39: Open Cluster in Cygnus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090412.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sfpez29BEWI/AAAAAAAALnk/4u8T-K6cW1Y/s400/2009-04-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330677353964179810" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Heidi Schweiker, WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Star Trails over the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090413.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfpgzI_T6zI/AAAAAAAALoU/v8dfKzzmrvM/s400/2009-04-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330679540649028402" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090414.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sfpezs4N9oI/AAAAAAAALnU/VA6IFH3mu1E/s400/2009-04-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330677351259698818" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Jagged Shadows May Indicate Saturn Ring Particles<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090415.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfpezpXDMKI/AAAAAAAALnM/NEckGVsrGw4/s400/2009-04-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330677350315274402" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, JPL, Space Science Institute<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Castle and Full Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090416.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphHXxPosI/AAAAAAAALo8/-xgNcvB1C8o/s400/2009-04-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330679888213942978" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Paolo Tanga, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Medieval Astronomy from Melk Abbey<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090417.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphHXoCluI/AAAAAAAALo0/2QIH5fum_V0/s400/2009-04-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330679888175339234" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Paul Beck (Univ. Vienna), Georg Zotti (Vienna Inst. Arch. Science) Copyright: Library of Melk Abbey, Frag. 229<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 1333 Stardust<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090418.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphHN-r2DI/AAAAAAAALos/8-Axz06jTDo/s400/2009-04-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330679885585963058" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Stephen Leshin<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The View Near a Black Hole<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090419.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphG4Q3zTI/AAAAAAAALok/UvzOtLOLkmI/s400/2009-04-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330679879756664114" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Drawing Credit: April Hobart, CXC<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Flowing Barchan Sand Dunes on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090420.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphGzVGLuI/AAAAAAAALoc/X3n6lW4jrXc/s400/2009-04-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330679878432206562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Global Warming Predictions<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090421.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphazS66HI/AAAAAAAALpk/OAB9tnFqS3M/s400/2009-04-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330680222020462706" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Robert A. Rohde, Global Warming Art<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sky Panorama Over Lake Salda<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090422.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphalksJCI/AAAAAAAALpc/zwLefap1iNE/s400/2009-04-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330680218336896034" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sharpless 308<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090423.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 386px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sfphati7NHI/AAAAAAAALpU/e_aXMqvnpPo/s400/2009-04-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330680220476978290" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moon and Morning Star<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090424.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphaanlByI/AAAAAAAALpM/mc4RN5COxf8/s400/2009-04-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330680215396222754" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: David Cortner<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Dark Markings of the Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090425.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphaU0765I/AAAAAAAALpE/AWGHrI5bqHg/s400/2009-04-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330680213841636242" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Steve Cannistra (StarryWonders)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 4676: When Mice Collide<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090426.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphuhSt_oI/AAAAAAAALqM/MiIrPJ_zDf4/s400/2009-04-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330680560785161858" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: ACS Science & Engineering Team, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Prometheus Creating Saturn Ring Streamers<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090427.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphuropPyI/AAAAAAAALqE/qXUVVNmVSl0/s400/2009-04-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330680563561479970" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 4565: Galaxy on the Edge<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090428.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphuRTd8iI/AAAAAAAALp8/o6JW-Pigr9w/s400/2009-04-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330680556493337122" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Roth Ritter (Dark Atmospheres)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">GRB 090423: The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090429.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphuVsAAgI/AAAAAAAALp0/sPo48Qs63BY/s400/2009-04-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330680557669974530" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Gemini Observatory / NSF / AURA, D. Fox & A. Cucchiara (Penn State U.), and E. Berger (Harvard Univ.)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Framed by Clouds<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090430.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SfphuHg6ZAI/AAAAAAAALps/DsKJbLYOn_Y/s400/2009-04-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330680553865372674" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Pete Lawrence (Digital-Astronomy)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2009/04/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-6480101182786202177?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-15091662149393948912009-01-05T10:15:00.002-07:002009-04-01T02:30:40.666-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>MARCH 2009 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Omega Centauri: The Largest Nearby Globular Cluster<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090301.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMr3WlWglI/AAAAAAAALRQ/YrEdofwMa7g/s400/2009-03-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319643814809731666" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Thomas V. Davis (tvdavisastropix.com)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Earthgrazer: The Great Daylight Fireball of 1972<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090302.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMr3OaiAOI/AAAAAAAALRI/tmAMzpkejy0/s400/2009-03-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319643812616863970" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: James M. Baker<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Helix Nebula from La Silla Observatory<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090303.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 370px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMr3Hz0NHI/AAAAAAAALRA/NsYmAqDLLVA/s400/2009-03-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319643810843866226" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: WFI, MPG/ESO 2.2-m Telescope, La Silla Obs., ESO<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Saturn in View<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090304.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMr28o8JOI/AAAAAAAALQ4/mvLKmYUcSMc/s400/2009-03-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319643807845459170" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne, Francois Colas, OMP<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">IC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090305.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMr24Kd2wI/AAAAAAAALQw/JwLwoNOIbhI/s400/2009-03-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319643806643903234" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Neil Fleming, David Plesko<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Crescent Moon and Venus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090306.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMuN-Y_6CI/AAAAAAAALT4/4dmxuKC5pk4/s400/2009-03-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319646402475714594" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Drew Sullivan (Ancient Starlight)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Lulin and Distant Galaxies<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090307.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMuN0EQJxI/AAAAAAAALTw/2tV9fktyKKw/s400/2009-03-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319646399704344338" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Gibbous Europa<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090308.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMuN3BbDNI/AAAAAAAALTo/oodgW-XHyZ4/s400/2009-03-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319646400497781970" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA; reprocessed by Ted Stryk<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Kepler's Streak<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090309.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMuNqF6LQI/AAAAAAAALTg/ICHE4MugQww/s400/2009-03-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319646397026938114" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Horsehead and Orion Nebulae<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090310.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMuNitZqRI/AAAAAAAALTY/V0htkUFOu8o/s400/2009-03-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319646395045095698" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dale J. Martin (Massapoag Pond Obs.)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Lunar X<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090311.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMugBVTcSI/AAAAAAAALUg/CkypyTKfQh0/s400/2009-03-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319646712503169314" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Thor's Helmet (NGC 2359) and Planetary Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090312.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMugMdZhWI/AAAAAAAALUY/R58wda02o88/s400/2009-03-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319646715489912162" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo, Ray Gralak<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Hickson Compact Group 90<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090313.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMugNyt95I/AAAAAAAALUQ/V8fAMZuiPdA/s400/2009-03-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319646715847767954" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Sharples (Univ. Durham)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Haute-Provence Star Trails<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090314.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMufwOxuxI/AAAAAAAALUI/H10w_ZZncAY/s400/2009-03-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319646707912391442" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Alexandre Santerne / OHP-CNRS<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Prominent Solar Prominence from SOHO<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090315.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMufz8B5aI/AAAAAAAALUA/iEdC4rLgT6Y/s400/2009-03-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319646708907500962" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Martian Moon Deimos from MRO<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090316.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMuyY__R_I/AAAAAAAALVI/x2pN26rmnic/s400/2009-03-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647028093863922" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Tycho's Supernova Remnant<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090317.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMuya1ALkI/AAAAAAAALVA/egM4a1gW_HU/s400/2009-03-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647028584656450" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: MPIA, Calar Alto, O. Krause et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">GLOBE at Night: Help Track Light Pollution<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090318.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMuyASyxpI/AAAAAAAALU4/hjqb2JT5LSg/s400/2009-03-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647021461849746" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Globe at Night Project, UCAR, International Year of Astronomy 2009<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Saturn: Moons in Transit<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090319.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMuyE7PmzI/AAAAAAAALUw/U5VDktIYI3k/s400/2009-03-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647022705253170" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: M.H. Wong (STScI/UC Berkeley), C. Go (Philippines)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sunset at the Portara<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090320.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMuyIWRQnI/AAAAAAAALUo/BWRPdoXB0-I/s400/2009-03-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647023623914098" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Fermi's Gamma-Ray Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090321.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvC36qXMI/AAAAAAAALVw/sFVNTiIZJG4/s400/2009-03-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647311270927554" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, DOE, Fermi LAT Collaboration<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sungrazer<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090322.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvCzFLdyI/AAAAAAAALVo/wMeS8PPQxkE/s400/2009-03-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647309972862754" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: LASCO, SOHO Consortium, NRL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090323.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvCmKgJSI/AAAAAAAALVg/ZCLo44-JvqE/s400/2009-03-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647306505528610" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Martian Dunes and the Shadow of Opportunity<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090324.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvCn9UtTI/AAAAAAAALVY/ZU6xupFuH8k/s400/2009-03-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647306987124018" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Orcus of the Outer Solar System<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090325.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvCWkv72I/AAAAAAAALVQ/nyANrR2p97o/s400/2009-03-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647302320648034" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: M. Brown (Caltech), C. Trujillo (Gemini), D. Rabinowitz (Yale), Samuel Oschin Telescope<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Stars Young and Old<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090326.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvV33hZjI/AAAAAAAALWY/Ao1hAYrlYxc/s400/2009-03-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647637675271730" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Roth Ritter (Dark Atmospheres)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Seagull Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090327.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvVtR76LI/AAAAAAAALWQ/5ETAGbxqTVY/s400/2009-03-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647634833270962" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Frank Barrett, Steve Davis<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Almahata Sitta 15<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090328.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvVsk4V6I/AAAAAAAALWI/L722IPM4rs4/s400/2009-03-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647634644293538" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute/NASA Ames)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Signals of a Strange Universe<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090329.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvVmjNlXI/AAAAAAAALWA/2g53nUWkKFY/s400/2009-03-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647633026684274" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team, HST, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Possible Mud Volcanoes on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090330.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvVjx6dQI/AAAAAAAALV4/BTBBV_ZEp9s/s400/2009-03-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647632283038978" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">In the Heart of the Tarantula Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090331.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdMvfS7yeDI/AAAAAAAALWg/5rCX0ZSFf90/s400/2009-03-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319647799559747634" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: ESA, NASA, ESO, & Danny LaCrue<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2009/03/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-1509166214939394891?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-59090873257416216382009-01-05T10:10:00.003-07:002009-03-31T21:39:53.146-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>FEBRUARY 2009 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Auroral Corona Over Norway<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090201.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLq3YMbH9I/AAAAAAAALNw/Fv35Tol3CtI/s400/2009-02-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319572346986242002" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Frank Andreassen (nettfoto.no)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Lulin Approaches<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090202.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLq3TZMitI/AAAAAAAALNo/xOohLdHCN3U/s400/2009-02-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319572345697635026" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Paolo Candy (Cimini Astronomical Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Lenticular Clouds Above Washington<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090203.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLq3DmKmhI/AAAAAAAALNg/ZyyAZcXRm-M/s400/2009-02-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319572341457066514" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tim Thompson<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Dangerous Summer on HD 80606b<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090204.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLq25_CdOI/AAAAAAAALNY/W3sTZuqITcg/s400/2009-02-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319572338877035746" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Illustration Credit: D. Kasen (et al.UCSC), NASA, JPL-Caltech<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 604: X-rays from a Giant Stellar Nursery<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090205.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 378px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLq2rxEXII/AAAAAAAALNQ/cR_v7bMtbqo/s400/2009-02-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319572335060343938" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: X-ray: NASA / CXC / R. Tuellmann (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) et al.; Optical: NASA/AURA/STScI<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Space Station in the Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090206.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLrT3cxweI/AAAAAAAALOY/54G_BAF70DQ/s400/2009-02-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319572836412670434" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Eric J. Zbinden<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Lulin Tails<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090207.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLrTzVccVI/AAAAAAAALOQ/G3pgMGmz28g/s400/2009-02-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319572835308171602" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Joseph Brimacombe<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Inside the Eagle Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090208.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLrTnreAwI/AAAAAAAALOI/bnTGtgz3BcQ/s400/2009-02-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319572832179323650" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: T. A. Rector & B. A. Wolpa, NOAO, AURA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Anemic Galaxy NGC 4921 at the Edge<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090209.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 391px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLrThRSHoI/AAAAAAAALOA/GEcioSJaPzU/s400/2009-02-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319572830458879618" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Cook (LLNL)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Orion's Belt<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090210.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLrTX8D3HI/AAAAAAAALN4/bYuO6oOmQu0/s400/2009-02-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319572827953945714" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Martin Mutti, Astronomical Image Data Archive<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Orion's Belt Continued<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090211.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLrmY8XBgI/AAAAAAAALPA/lXMJrfHmi9A/s400/2009-02-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573154641151490" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Alan Smallbone<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Zodiacal Light Vs. Milky Way<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090212.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLrmUzFZLI/AAAAAAAALO4/U3bhdldOWB0/s400/2009-02-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573153528505522" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Daniel López, IAC<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Circle 'round the Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090213.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLrmEr6IeI/AAAAAAAALOw/zbP8nrv17bo/s400/2009-02-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573149203440098" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net / TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">IC 1805: The Heart Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090214.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLrmEMtiTI/AAAAAAAALOo/kFFKivBDW74/s400/2009-02-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573149072591154" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Daniel Marquardt<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Antarctic Ice Shelf Vista<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090215.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLrmL41bbI/AAAAAAAALOg/Cwr3HVuMbbo/s400/2009-02-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573151136705970" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Helmut Rott (U. Innsbruck)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Great Carina Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090216.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 397px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLr38bEL9I/AAAAAAAALPo/inDnZHr01Yc/s400/2009-02-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573456222957522" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: European Southern Observatory<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Unusual Red Glow Over Minnesota<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090217.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLr34SIEvI/AAAAAAAALPg/IyO9ze33doI/s400/2009-02-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573455111721714" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tyler Blessing<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Satellites Collide in Low Earth Orbit<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090218.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLr3yqXfTI/AAAAAAAALPY/HgzeADQOJe0/s400/2009-02-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573453602782514" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Illustration Credit & Copyright: Analytical Graphics, Inc.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mauna Kea Milky Way Panorama<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090219.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 86px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLr3icSw3I/AAAAAAAALPQ/cNZINdfX4R0/s400/2009-02-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573449248785266" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Snake in the Dark<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090220.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLr3gXIE8I/AAAAAAAALPI/cfd-9gzDFMk/s400/2009-02-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573448690242498" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard (Los Cielos de Chile)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Swift View of Comet Lulin<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090221.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 361px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLsL2S_9iI/AAAAAAAALQQ/riIVIWohMkM/s400/2009-02-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573798175897122" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, Swift, Univ. Leicester, DSS (STScI/AURUA), Dennis Bodewits (NASA/GSFC), et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Orion Nebula: The Hubble View<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090222.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLsLztv97I/AAAAAAAALQI/z_SkSpg6nMQ/s400/2009-02-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573797482788786" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">An Etruscan Vase Moon Rising<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090223.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 83px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLsL1qVsqI/AAAAAAAALQA/YvXa8NotIEU/s400/2009-02-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573798005355170" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: John Stetson<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Barnard's Loop around the Horsehead Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090224.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLsLssIwUI/AAAAAAAALP4/-EgrqXi5nPk/s400/2009-02-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573795596976450" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Drew Sullivan (Ancient Starlight)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Two Tails of Comet Lulin<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090225.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLsLqlNVWI/AAAAAAAALPw/N-uoTRp37yI/s400/2009-02-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319573795031045474" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Richard Richins (NMSU)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090226.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLsZqPEsCI/AAAAAAAALQo/U4Gjf9Jtl9U/s400/2009-02-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319574035456372770" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Mike Salway<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Lulin and Saturn near Opposition<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090227.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLsZibAAqI/AAAAAAAALQg/3YWFYHFTxOw/s400/2009-02-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319574033358914210" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090228.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 388px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLsZrUPbbI/AAAAAAAALQY/QNpQlq2gKI0/s400/2009-02-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319574035746483634" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2009/02/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-5909087325741621638?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-90428132958245314342009-01-05T10:05:00.003-07:002009-03-31T21:03:02.657-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>JANUARY 2009 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Welcome to the International Year of Astronomy<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090101.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLgiXIJlPI/AAAAAAAALJ0/-jZrwzvzW24/s400/2009-01-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319560990806349042" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: IYA2009, IAU, UNESCO<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Alpine Conjunction<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090102.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLgiQyeYvI/AAAAAAAALJs/7TkmQ_ZdIcM/s400/2009-01-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319560989104825074" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Double Cluster in Perseus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090103.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLgiS43zFI/AAAAAAAALJk/YtciiakJ4jk/s400/2009-01-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319560989668527186" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Roth Ritter (Dark Atmospheres)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Breaking Distant Light<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090104.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLgie2N4KI/AAAAAAAALJc/OZIv9r4hmVs/s400/2009-01-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319560992878616738" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: VIMOS, VLT, ESO<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet and Meteor<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090105.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 207px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLgiKj1G9I/AAAAAAAALJU/VMJZGEKa9mo/s400/2009-01-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319560987432786898" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Jupiter Eclipsing Ganymede<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090106.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLg9AUpo2I/AAAAAAAALKc/we-J0bhNRZA/s400/2009-01-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319561448541234018" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Karkoschka (U. Arizona)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Galactic Core in Infrared<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090107.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 189px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLg9Ahz96I/AAAAAAAALKU/7XV9fCZm6Pc/s400/2009-01-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319561448596436898" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Hubble: NASA, ESA, & D. Q. Wang (U. Mass, Amherst); Spitzer: NASA, JPL, & S. Stolovy (SSC/Caltech)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 2736: The Pencil Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090108.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLg80S2KgI/AAAAAAAALKM/t9dxhFnG52U/s400/2009-01-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319561445312440834" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 4945 in Centaurus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090109.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLg8w2u-dI/AAAAAAAALKE/JbP-su6tG8A/s400/2009-01-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319561444389222866" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Thorsten Brandes, Johannes Schedler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Martian Sunset<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090110.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLg8qH_FGI/AAAAAAAALJ8/3JVdmYV0uvk/s400/2009-01-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319561442582533218" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Texas A&M, Cornell, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">In the Shadow of Saturn<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090111.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLhTUSSxTI/AAAAAAAALLE/tMYWHenE67Q/s400/2009-01-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319561831857177906" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Unusual Light Pillars Over Latvia<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090112.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLhTOJx0SI/AAAAAAAALK8/Iq_dA1Wicgw/s400/2009-01-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319561830210851106" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Aigar Truhin<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Largest Full Moon of 2009<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090113.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLhTKV3UpI/AAAAAAAALK0/fx7nTajwK-M/s400/2009-01-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319561829187801746" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Vincent Jacques Sky Shows<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090114.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLhTGNuDoI/AAAAAAAALKs/gZgxSCjOCdw/s400/2009-01-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319561828079898242" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Thomas V. Davis (tvdavisastropix.com)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Suspension Bridge Solargraph<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090115.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLhS8QFGrI/AAAAAAAALKk/k50sCywiWk4/s400/2009-01-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319561825405442738" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Justin Quinnell<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">ISS: Reflections of Earth<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090116.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLhndDvqII/AAAAAAAALLs/w-B8oComi_Y/s400/2009-01-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562177809459330" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Ralf Vandebergh<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">IC 410 and NGC 1893<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090117.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLhnAU3cII/AAAAAAAALLk/U2wZW-Unw24/s400/2009-01-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562170096644226" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jacob Bassøe<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090118.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLhnEAGahI/AAAAAAAALLc/BxRiEQd30zg/s400/2009-01-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562171083287058" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Methane Discovered in the Atmosphere of Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090119.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLhnPB40vI/AAAAAAAALLU/h7l3BQ068IQ/s400/2009-01-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562174043575026" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Bonestell Panorama from Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090120.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 78px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLhmyjkeyI/AAAAAAAALLM/gxBoSxxUD0A/s400/2009-01-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562166400219938" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Lenticular Cloud Over New Zealand<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090121.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLh6zopZJI/AAAAAAAALMU/bQsWBXg93io/s400/2009-01-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562510287332498" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Chris Picking (Starry Night Skies Photography)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Planetary Nebula NGC 2818<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090122.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLh69mSnAI/AAAAAAAALMM/sz1AydPxrog/s400/2009-01-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562512961805314" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Globular Cluster NGC 2419<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090123.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLh66lJ6RI/AAAAAAAALME/A2qSNFVuj6M/s400/2009-01-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562512151734546" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Richard Hammar<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Bubble Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090124.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLh6mR1PGI/AAAAAAAALL8/qii67FTCFhU/s400/2009-01-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562506701978722" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Kent Wood<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Annular Eclipse: The Ring of Fire<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090125.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLh6kTvmYI/AAAAAAAALL0/YfIUhcJaYj0/s400/2009-01-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562506173127042" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dennis L. Mammana (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">AE Aurigae and the Flaming Star Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090126.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLiNYFWjdI/AAAAAAAALM8/5UzgAiUVMZ0/s400/2009-01-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562829309054418" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jorge Garcia<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Milky Way Over Mauna Kea<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090127.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLiNH3tasI/AAAAAAAALM0/3v70Ual4ATI/s400/2009-01-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562824956865218" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Partial Eclipse Over Manila Bay<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090128.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLiNLQgJoI/AAAAAAAALMs/j6u2D1MH-X8/s400/2009-01-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562825866159746" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Armando Lee (Astron. League Philippines), F. Naelga Jr., 100 Hours of Astronomy (IYA2009)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Eclipse Shirt 2009<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090129.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLiNMv2keI/AAAAAAAALMk/EBQQhyolDbk/s400/2009-01-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562826266087906" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Simon Fishley (SAAO)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 1579: Trifid of the North<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090130.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 394px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLiNKv4zCI/AAAAAAAALMc/3H83-h-iS0E/s400/2009-01-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319562825729362978" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090131.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLic2Q0d1I/AAAAAAAALNE/IyqwEG5Fa8g/s400/2009-01-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319563095108253522" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: J-P Metsävainio (Astro Anarchy)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-9042813295824531434?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-67018233763807186142009-01-05T10:00:00.001-07:002009-03-27T21:04:51.963-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>DECEMBER 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Massive Stars Resolved in the Carina Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081201.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 179px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclBZsZJgRI/AAAAAAAAJZI/pVl1GNLYfds/s400/2008-12-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316852744756756754" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">International Space Station: Find the Astronaut<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081202.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclBZc-KBaI/AAAAAAAAJY8/g3EtWvSqqUw/s400/2008-12-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316852740617012642" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: STS-126 Shuttle Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Happy Sky Over Los Angeles<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081203.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclBY-KmhbI/AAAAAAAAJYw/uUIb4Kzcguw/s400/2008-12-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316852732347712946" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dave Jurasevich (Mt. Wilson Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Venus in the Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081204.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclBYcr2DkI/AAAAAAAAJYk/9D8x8BOxHCw/s400/2008-12-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316852723360337474" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory) Inset: Vincent Jacques<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Smile in the Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081205.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclBX-DnolI/AAAAAAAAJYc/NOduF87PD2k/s400/2008-12-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316852715138556498" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Mike Salway<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Lunar Diamond<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081206.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclBxGZy58I/AAAAAAAAJZ0/_fLF-91Ia_Y/s400/2008-12-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853146875783106" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Deirdre Kelleghan<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Halo Around the Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081207.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclBwh0DefI/AAAAAAAAJZs/ssXR2666nKM/s400/2008-12-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853137053809138" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado, TWAN<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Dark Doodad Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081208.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclBweGKz6I/AAAAAAAAJZk/TktRn18XV8I/s400/2008-12-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853136056045474" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Andrey Oreshko<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081209.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 361px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclBwGpAc7I/AAAAAAAAJZc/2t-90G9mnzE/s400/2008-12-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853129759716274" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Phillip L. Jones VisualUniverse.org<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Portrait of NGC 281<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081210.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclBvdUQJeI/AAAAAAAAJZU/okX5y0Ci7DY/s400/2008-12-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853118666810850" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">At the Center of the Milky Way<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081211.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCGe6o7iI/AAAAAAAAJac/2dz_DM1czrg/s400/2008-12-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853514233245218" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: ESO, Stefan Gillessen (MPE), F. Eisenhauer, S. Trippe, T. Alexander, R. Genzel, F. Martins, T. Ott<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Lick Observatory Moonrise<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081212.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 234px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCGCGN4-I/AAAAAAAAJaU/Q_I9BBRtvnM/s400/2008-12-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853506497176546" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Rick Baldridge<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The 60-inch Reflector<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081213.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCGKjEsUI/AAAAAAAAJaM/LoDVPjAOIv8/s400/2008-12-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853508765692226" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (TWAN), courtesy Mike Simmons (AWB)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Zodiacal Light Over New Mexico<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081214.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCF7j0-kI/AAAAAAAAJaE/PL8F5Glk-uE/s400/2008-12-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853504742324802" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Malcolm Park (North York Astronomical Association)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Sun Pillar Over North Carolina<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081215.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCFjWbKHI/AAAAAAAAJZ8/iTxV3HoO1qc/s400/2008-12-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853498243655794" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Terry Holdsclaw<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Orion Dawn Over Mount Nemrut<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081216.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCav_XeKI/AAAAAAAAJbE/CsQytrQTvAQ/s400/2008-12-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853862413858978" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Dumbbells<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081217.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 201px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCanuZvtI/AAAAAAAAJa8/hlA92WW_H2M/s400/2008-12-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853860195221202" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Daniel López, IAC<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">La Superba<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081218.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCajUCr2I/AAAAAAAAJa0/TgkQDw5XrfY/s400/2008-12-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853859010916194" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Processing - Noel Carboni, Imaging - Greg Parker, New Forest Observatory<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Large Cloud of Magellan<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081219.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCafCHtJI/AAAAAAAAJas/B12tOAF4_CY/s400/2008-12-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853857862005906" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Solstice at Newgrange<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081220.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCaUO-obI/AAAAAAAAJak/IkG_7R2N3_4/s400/2008-12-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316853854963147186" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Photograph by Cyril Byrne - courtesy of The Irish Times<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Analemma Over the Porch of Maidens<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081221.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCtJduglI/AAAAAAAAJbs/108iIAzhvEc/s400/2008-12-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854178489729618" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Labtayt Sulci on Saturn's Enceladus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081222.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCtC4pDnI/AAAAAAAAJbk/aho-FUklk3k/s400/2008-12-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854176723570290" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Collinder 399: The Coat Hanger<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081223.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCtGktZpI/AAAAAAAAJbc/Ify__6N0Bcg/s400/2008-12-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854177713710738" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Processing - Noel Carboni, Imaging - Greg Parker, New Forest Observatory<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Earthrise<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081224.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCtErPW1I/AAAAAAAAJbU/rDa4yp6qDVw/s400/2008-12-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854177204230994" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Apollo 8, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081225.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 207px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclCszJRcWI/AAAAAAAAJbM/WF8I10_YHPY/s400/2008-12-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854172498358626" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: R Jay Gabany<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081226.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclDEuYExFI/AAAAAAAAJcU/-LWgw--60eg/s400/2008-12-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854583535125586" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Gordon Haynes<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081227.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclDEdXwYaI/AAAAAAAAJcM/RyKkJ2NVKRg/s400/2008-12-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854578970386850" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA / CXC / SAO / F. D. Seward, W. H. Tucker, R. A. Fesen<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Thackeray's Globules<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081228.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclDEI9aW2I/AAAAAAAAJcE/2ZxJk85mQxs/s400/2008-12-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854573491182434" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 1569: Starburst in a Dwarf Irregular Galaxy<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081229.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclDEAWkS9I/AAAAAAAAJb8/6qj1uhOqjuU/s400/2008-12-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854571180772306" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgement: A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA) et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Home from Above<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081230.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclDEFhi0DI/AAAAAAAAJb0/Z953Xw2b6xM/s400/2008-12-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854572568989746" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Expedition 18 Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Sky in Motion<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081231.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SclDPqMIdbI/AAAAAAAAJcc/v0MWV-VbsUM/s400/2008-12-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316854771389855154" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Video: Till Credner, (The Sky in Motion.com) Music: túrána hott kurdis by hasta la otra méxico!<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/12/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-6701823376380718614?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-18709931660842708922009-01-05T09:55:00.001-07:002009-03-27T20:59:19.927-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NOVEMBER 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Spectre in the Eastern Veil<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081101.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsGpGmErI/AAAAAAAAJUE/WikkncgKHVU/s400/2008-11-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266377758511794" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Paul Mortfield, Stefano Cancelli<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Spicules: Jets on the Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081102.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsGCNPjqI/AAAAAAAAJT8/qfFJjcVf2F0/s400/2008-11-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266367317413538" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: SST, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, LMSAL<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Spectacular Rayed Crater on Mercury<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081103.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsF4MPc4I/AAAAAAAAJT0/-erx-0xy3C8/s400/2008-11-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266364628857730" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: MESSENGER, NASA, JHU APL, CIW<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Double Ring Galaxies of Arp 147 from Hubble<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081104.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 330px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsFScdtLI/AAAAAAAAJTs/0ByMerWEAGw/s400/2008-11-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266354496353458" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: M Livio et al. (STScI), ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Seventeen Hundred Kilometers Above Enceladus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081105.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsE-URBcI/AAAAAAAAJTk/QWH8xT5IAEc/s400/2008-11-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266349093258690" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Sharper View of a Hazy Giant<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081106.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsZQhwbJI/AAAAAAAAJUs/64TCfQcUYbU/s400/2008-11-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266697579064466" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: ESO, F.Marchis, M.Wong (UC Berkeley); E.Marchetti, P.Amico, S.Tordo (ESO)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Cygnus Trio<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081107.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsZW8w3lI/AAAAAAAAJUk/yxtS0kA_Rnk/s400/2008-11-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266699302952530" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: J-P Metsävainio (Astro Anarchy)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">On the Trail of 2008 TC3<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081108.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsZRtjEwI/AAAAAAAAJUc/LpAxMRi6Bmg/s400/2008-11-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266697896956674" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Mohamed Elhassan Abdelatif Mahir (Noub NGO), Dr. Muawia H. Shaddad (Univ. Khartoum), Dr. Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute/NASA Ames)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Two Black Holes Dancing in 3C 75<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081109.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsZHgiQhI/AAAAAAAAJUU/Mc1t6aKs1qE/s400/2008-11-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266695158022674" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: X-Ray: NASA / CXC / D.Hudson, T.Reiprich et al. (AIfA); Radio: NRAO / VLA/ NRL<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Our Galaxy's Central Molecular Zone<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081110.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 204px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsZCzYGrI/AAAAAAAAJUM/5ssStPy-MXo/s400/2008-11-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266693894871730" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: A. Ginsburg (U. Colorado - Boulder) et al., BGPS Team, GLIMPSE II Team<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081111.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsqE1uScI/AAAAAAAAJVU/BB-34rEppQw/s400/2008-11-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266986499361218" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Joseph Brimacombe<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Phoenix and the Holy Cow<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081112.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccsqG02lfI/AAAAAAAAJVM/JgY2qMEGX9k/s400/2008-11-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266987032581618" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Image Credit: Marco Di Lorenzo, Kenneth Kremer, Phoenix Mission, NASA, JPL, UA, Max Planck Inst., Spaceflight<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Bubble in Cygnus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081113.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sccsp9J7OxI/AAAAAAAAJVE/2hvkUAcbj2Q/s400/2008-11-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266984436611858" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Image Credit & Copyright: Keith Quattrocchi, Mel Helm<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Fomalhaut b<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081114.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sccsp3RGYaI/AAAAAAAAJU8/TD3eUAjlOtk/s400/2008-11-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266982856090018" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (Univ. California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA/Goddard), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore NL), K. Stapelfeldt, J. Krist (NASA/JPL)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Arp 273<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081115.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SccspsC17kI/AAAAAAAAJU0/iiQwB4LsI9E/s400/2008-11-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316266979843501634" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mount Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081116.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sccs62Z0kpI/AAAAAAAAJV8/yhh_ajTZBQ0/s400/2008-11-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316267274682012306" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: John Britton<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">HR 8799: Discovery of a Multi-planet Star System<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081117.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sccs6_wV_mI/AAAAAAAAJV0/-204rM5CCBY/s400/2008-11-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316267277192396386" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: C. Marois et al., NRC Canada<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Restored: First Image of the Earth from the Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081118.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 189px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sccs62FD3UI/AAAAAAAAJVs/qVuH-6EEYMw/s400/2008-11-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316267274594934082" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA/LOIRP<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Unusual Auroras Over Saturn's North Pole<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081119.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sccs6miAPlI/AAAAAAAAJVk/P0W8_cgJC1Y/s400/2008-11-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316267270421364306" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini VIMS Team, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Endeavour in the Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081120.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sccs6pPLTTI/AAAAAAAAJVc/_2ABlc6NVVs/s400/2008-11-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316267271147703602" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Marek Kozubal, Clay Center Observatory at Dexter and Southfield Schools<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M76 Above and Below<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081121.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScctibDD9sI/AAAAAAAAJXM/vANU7DANTrM/s400/2008-11-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316267954533562050" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">From Moonrise to Sunset<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081122.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 22px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScctifgF5dI/AAAAAAAAJXE/fCy3QNvYMzU/s400/2008-11-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316267955729065426" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">In the Vicinity of the Cone Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081123.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 389px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScctiasJbHI/AAAAAAAAJW8/9cRdq4to2ls/s400/2008-11-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316267954437450866" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: T. A. Rector (NRAO), NOAO, AURA, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Radar Indicates Buried Glaciers on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081124.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScctiBwr3xI/AAAAAAAAJW0/BOjLZzms0P4/s400/2008-11-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316267947745599250" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Data Reconstruction Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/UTA/UA/MSSS/ESA/DLR/JPL Solar System Visualization Project<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Fireball Over Edmonton<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081125.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScctiFSL0YI/AAAAAAAAJWs/eTSW-9Jg8ro/s400/2008-11-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316267948691411330" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright Global Television Edmonton, YouTube<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Horsehead Nebula in Orion<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081126.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScctzKh80CI/AAAAAAAAJX0/AQtrDFgl6y0/s400/2008-11-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316268242157490210" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Galaxies in the River<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081127.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScctzIiXRqI/AAAAAAAAJXs/TCzMmRDywys/s400/2008-11-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316268241622353570" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler, Jan-Erik Ovaldsen, Allan Hornstrup, IDA Image data: ESO/Danish 1.5m telescope at La Silla, Chile - 2008<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Probably a Planet for Beta Pic<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081128.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScctzNOwEDI/AAAAAAAAJXk/Mn76V8XFXT0/s400/2008-11-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316268242882269234" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: ESO, A.-M. Lagrange (LAOG), et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Chilean Skyscape<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081129.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scctyyuww6I/AAAAAAAAJXc/xpV6d5autfc/s400/2008-11-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316268235768775586" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">An Apollo 15 Panorama: Astronaut Exploring<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081130.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 72px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Sccty3yYT5I/AAAAAAAAJXU/qUA7ARlD6XE/s400/2008-11-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316268237126127506" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Apollo 15 Crew, USGS, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/11/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-1870993166084270892?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-17577524891271416662009-01-05T09:50:00.001-07:002009-03-27T20:49:57.574-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>OCTOBER 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081001.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbqq_mVFmI/AAAAAAAAJQM/VwfMwAN7c30/s400/2008-10-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316194434505053794" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: GRIN, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 253 Close-Up<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081002.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 102px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbqq12l1AI/AAAAAAAAJQE/ZwPanDX5U1s/s400/2008-10-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316194431888905218" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. Williams (Univ. Washington) Ground-based data: T. Rector (Univ. Alaska, Anchorage), T. Abbott, NOAO/AURA/NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Young Suns of NGC 7129<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081003.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbqqxLvaGI/AAAAAAAAJP8/V6B49OLz0pI/s400/2008-10-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316194430635436130" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Bob and Janice Fera (Fera Photography)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Solar Prominence Unfurls<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081004.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbqqs5tlQI/AAAAAAAAJP0/-0c5vmgnIlM/s400/2008-10-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316194429486077186" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: STEREO Project, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Earth at Night<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081005.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbqqmwf1fI/AAAAAAAAJPs/PCyuFp3-Aho/s400/2008-10-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316194427836814834" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: C. Mayhew & R. Simmon (NASA/GSFC), NOAA/NGDC, DMSP Digital Archive<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Layers of Red Cliffs on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081006.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbq9MwO8HI/AAAAAAAAJQ0/XugzHN84Xbk/s400/2008-10-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316194747273900146" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Dust Mountains in the Carina Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbq81jPs5I/AAAAAAAAJQs/8MIp3rduqNY/s400/2008-10-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316194741045408658" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgement: N. Smith et al. (JHU)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mercury as Revealed by MESSENGER<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081008.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbq8xupQ3I/AAAAAAAAJQk/XtnUGta56mU/s400/2008-10-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316194740019479410" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: MESSENGER, NASA, JHU APL, CIW<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Massive Stars in NGC 6357<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081009.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbq8p_CIcI/AAAAAAAAJQc/FFh80nayeuM/s400/2008-10-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316194737940734402" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Irregular Galaxy NGC 55<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081010.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbq8YOlJgI/AAAAAAAAJQU/Wngn7L8RUTs/s400/2008-10-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316194733174105602" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Bright Bolide<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081011.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbrNG_8u0I/AAAAAAAAJRc/Qq7sME5Lmnc/s400/2008-10-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195020607109954" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Howard Edin (Oklahoma City Astronomy Club)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370 from Hubble<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081012.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbrM_sNUUI/AAAAAAAAJRU/GBA6hql5ANY/s400/2008-10-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195018645262658" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgement: A. Reiss et al. (JHU)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Cassini Passes Through Ice Plumes of Enceladus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081013.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbrM0CSZxI/AAAAAAAAJRM/vG71GZhbjVc/s400/2008-10-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195015516645138" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">An Enceladus Tiger Stripe from Cassini<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081014.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbrM6tos2I/AAAAAAAAJRE/XzqDdJjqkbg/s400/2008-10-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195017309074274" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Camera Orion<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081015.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbrMb8fNEI/AAAAAAAAJQ8/OB9jZFcmHRM/s400/2008-10-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195009049867330" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: John Gauvreau<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">48 Years of Space Flight<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081016.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbrkMpMkbI/AAAAAAAAJSE/Gvi4XXmgRu4/s400/2008-10-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195417259282866" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Ralf Vandebergh<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">An Extraordinary Voyage<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081017.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbrjwXIRxI/AAAAAAAAJR8/_PVu4sPg1_o/s400/2008-10-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195409667311378" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Jesse Carpenter, Bill Moede, Peter Jenniskens (NASA Ames Research Center)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sharpless 171<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081018.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbrj2UQffI/AAAAAAAAJR0/9RBZwMz3DVw/s400/2008-10-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195411265879538" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Antonio Fernandez<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">In the Center of the Lagoon Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081019.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 394px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbrj1vysyI/AAAAAAAAJRs/-yanReWdkmc/s400/2008-10-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195411112932130" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: A. Caulet (ST-ECF, ESA), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moons, Rings, and Unexpected Colors on Saturn<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081020.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbrjiL2NPI/AAAAAAAAJRk/1JKj-AmC3Nc/s400/2008-10-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195405861893362" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Dark Pulsar in CTA 1<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081021.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 377px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbr1IaF9EI/AAAAAAAAJSs/cfscPyqIdns/s400/2008-10-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195708179969090" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, S. Pineault (DRAO)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Beautiful Spiral NGC 7331<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081022.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbr006iQZI/AAAAAAAAJSk/vw8fiUOmdts/s400/2008-10-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195702947332498" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Vicent Peris (OAUV / PTeam), Gilles Bergond, Calar Alto Observatory.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Great Orion Nebulae<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081023.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbr0oFINwI/AAAAAAAAJSc/R36CoCThEkI/s400/2008-10-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195699502102274" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Amazing Comet Holmes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081024.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbr0FQorgI/AAAAAAAAJSU/C4cciBJVixM/s400/2008-10-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195690155126274" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tony Cook<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 602 and Beyond<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081025.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Scbrzj7AqTI/AAAAAAAAJSM/9ayDa-fXwnU/s400/2008-10-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195681206053170" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081026.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbsGYen2JI/AAAAAAAAJTU/dmVy-YJ7HfQ/s400/2008-10-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316196004551710866" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA and J. M. Apellániz (IAA, Spain)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Beneath the South Pole of Saturn<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081027.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 332px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbsGMN0IiI/AAAAAAAAJTM/ZgPzpq029Tk/s400/2008-10-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316196001259987490" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini VIMS Team, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The North America Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081028.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbsGA92QLI/AAAAAAAAJTE/Alape8QO4w4/s400/2008-10-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195998240227506" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Ignacio Rico Gualda<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mirach's Ghost<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081029.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbsF4bpNhI/AAAAAAAAJS8/Px4GX7DiNHM/s400/2008-10-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195995949282834" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Haunting the Cepheus Flare<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081030.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbsF_UWXmI/AAAAAAAAJS0/C_v887jOLGY/s400/2008-10-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316195997797736034" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Giovanni Benintende<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Witch by Starlight<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081031.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScbsPiLfgyI/AAAAAAAAJTc/0RSiLF2fyOI/s400/2008-10-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316196161774650146" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Star Shadows Remote Observatory (Steve Mazlin, Jack Harvey, Rick Gilbert, Teri Smoot, Daniel Verschatse)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/10/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-1757752489127141666?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-36210507229203607172009-01-05T09:45:00.002-07:002009-03-27T20:41:03.649-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>SEPTEMBER 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080901.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjn0TClVPI/AAAAAAAAGFY/Nz8va5txtSQ/s400/2008-09-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244696651723265266" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Mike Sidonio<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080902.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjn0ssDkUI/AAAAAAAAGFg/I912phSMQW4/s400/2008-09-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244696658608099650" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">31 Million Miles from Planet Earth<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080903.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjn050DwnI/AAAAAAAAGFo/bHZ5CmovN4g/s400/2008-09-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244696662131327602" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Video Credit: Donald J. Lindler, Sigma Space Corporation, GSFC, Univ. Maryland, EPOCh/DIXI Science Teams<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Spokes in the Helix Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080904.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjn01hcvHI/AAAAAAAAGFw/5ZzaZ_mFQIE/s400/2008-09-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244696660979530866" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman, Sierra Remote Observatories<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Milky Way Road Trip<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080905.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjn0yyf9WI/AAAAAAAAGF4/N3vQEpxjOpY/s400/2008-09-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244696660245738850" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Flock of Stars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080906.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjpdbBrbAI/AAAAAAAAGGA/_jcCXu5Z-OE/s400/2008-09-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244698457753218050" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Roger A. Hopkins<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Searching for Meteorites in Antarctica<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080907.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjpdg-xEqI/AAAAAAAAGGI/qBKcR3Q0f0U/s400/2008-09-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244698459351618210" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Ralph P. Harvey (CWRU), Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program, NASA, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Rosetta Spacecraft Passes Asteroid Steins<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080908.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjpdtuRCKI/AAAAAAAAGGQ/6ufRYSwPmsQ/s400/2008-09-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244698462772070562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Rosetta Team, ESA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M110: Satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080909.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjpdx1DA7I/AAAAAAAAGGY/n-TsnjDPlU8/s400/2008-09-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244698463874253746" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum Astronomia), Hawaiian Starlight<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Anthe Arc around Saturn<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080910.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjpd3iXasI/AAAAAAAAGGg/NxgRrdo-2bo/s400/2008-09-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244698465406511810" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mountain Top Meteors<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080911.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMjp_AvyVFI/AAAAAAAAGGo/_rjUH_dED64/s400/2008-09-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244699034814403666" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Alex Tudorica, Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy Faculty of Physics, Bucharest University<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Planets over Perth<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080912.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMzPlBLbwpI/AAAAAAAAGHI/QSPTeZ-ut-k/s400/2008-09-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245795900858286738" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: John Goldsmith, Celestial Visions exhibition, TWAN<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M33: Triangulum Galaxy<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080913.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMzPlW1B-BI/AAAAAAAAGHQ/untrOPtwNCo/s400/2008-09-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245795906669901842" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Paul Mortfield, Stefano Cancelli<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Heart and Soul Nebulas<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080914.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SMzPlrNHBPI/AAAAAAAAGHY/bxRvvegwJHQ/s400/2008-09-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245795912139605234" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Digitized Sky Survey, ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator; Color Composite: Davide De Martin (Skyfactory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">SN 1006: A Supernova Ribbon from Hubble<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080915.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2BSEGMCI/AAAAAAAAGOA/T3G_09aaox8/s400/2008-09-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250271398752301090" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgement: W. Blair et al. (JHU)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">W5: Pillars of Star Creation<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080916.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2BZptQeI/AAAAAAAAGOI/JpxQhSSKrtw/s400/2008-09-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250271400789098978" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Lori Allen, Xavier Koenig (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">MACSJ0025: Two Giant Galaxy Clusters Collide<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080917.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2BVlm61I/AAAAAAAAGOQ/QJ89OXuZkq4/s400/2008-09-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250271399698164562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, M. Bradac (UCSB) & S. Allen (Stanford)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Exploring the Ring<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080918.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2BZIMo0I/AAAAAAAAGOY/qDuUdg3nr7g/s400/2008-09-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250271400648549186" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Astro-Cooperation - Stefan Heutz/Wolfgang Ries<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Companion of a Young, Sun-like Star<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080919.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2BnAS5JI/AAAAAAAAGOg/rKnX0ZSbiMA/s400/2008-09-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250271404373501074" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Gemini Observatory, D. Lafreniere, R. Jayawardhana, M. van Kerkwijk (Univ. Toronto)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Darkened Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080920.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2Xx-VzrI/AAAAAAAAGOo/p9CdCmh9kJA/s400/2008-09-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250271785275215538" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Miloslav Druckmuller (Brno University of Technology), Peter Aniol, Vojtech Rusin<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Egging On the Autumnal Equinox<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080921.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2XwNBUeI/AAAAAAAAGOw/BsCk--6kzmg/s400/2008-09-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250271784799916514" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy & Blog)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080922.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2X6LUX1I/AAAAAAAAGO4/dEOHQDmnbrg/s400/2008-09-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250271787477131090" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Haumea of the Outer Solar System<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080923.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2YEuMAHI/AAAAAAAAGPA/tpOKwekZJSE/s400/2008-09-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250271790307737714" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Illustration Credit: NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Active Region 1002 on an Unusually Quiet Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080924.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2YGd8PCI/AAAAAAAAGPI/1ij8X1iPsL8/s400/2008-09-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250271790776466466" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: SOHO Consortium, EIT, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Case of the Very Dusty Binary Star<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080925.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2oHg5z1I/AAAAAAAAGPQ/-y7pdP1z8JU/s400/2008-09-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250272065935232850" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Illustration Credit & Copyright: Lynette Cook<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moon Rays over Byurakan Observatory<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080926.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNy2oAMLhyI/AAAAAAAAGPY/mB2nj-0otDc/s400/2008-09-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250272063969265442" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M83: The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080927.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SOGyZTNwTpI/AAAAAAAAGQA/3MbGEeRQxIU/s400/2008-09-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251674788215148178" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Color Composite: Davide De Martin (Skyfactory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Young Stars of NGC 346<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080928.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SOGyZ-7cTLI/AAAAAAAAGQI/xrrTC8ag60s/s400/2008-09-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251674799949499570" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Antonella Nota (ESA/STScI) et al., ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A True Image from False Kiva<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080929.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SOGyao7UnpI/AAAAAAAAGQQ/AMv6OIc-8oI/s400/2008-09-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251674811223285394" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com/TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Planets Ahoy!<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080930.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SOGyay-JowI/AAAAAAAAGQY/g5Ts0xRh3rk/s400/2008-09-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251674813919503106" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Mike Salway (IceInSpace)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/09/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-3621050722920360717?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-87657570423141141152009-01-05T09:40:00.001-07:002009-03-27T20:34:23.676-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>AUGUST 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moon Games<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080801.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScV6w-z9qkI/AAAAAAAAJIA/cBdSLf1cp6c/s400/2008-08-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315789917093997122" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net / TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Eclipse Shirt<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080802.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScV6w0_4OSI/AAAAAAAAJH4/evyMQ8HXxNg/s400/2008-08-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315789914459617570" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Philippe Haake<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080803.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScV6wy9Q0CI/AAAAAAAAJHw/L25LYQVop_E/s400/2008-08-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315789913911775266" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: ESA & NASA; Acknowledgement: E. Olszewski (U. Arizona)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">X-Rays from the Cat's Eye Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080804.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScV6wzAaTDI/AAAAAAAAJHo/jexkOAU4LNQ/s400/2008-08-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315789913924979762" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Total Solar Eclipse Over China<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080805.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScV6wp1x98I/AAAAAAAAJHg/YHD_CoaTJZg/s400/2008-08-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315789911464474562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Bill Buckingham<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080806.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWAWlM-3uI/AAAAAAAAJKM/HFns4qzGWK0/s400/2008-08-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796060612779746" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Diedre Hunter (Lowell Obs.) et al., HST, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">At the Sun's Edge<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080807.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWAWUIyA7I/AAAAAAAAJKE/UZEj6uVP7Bk/s400/2008-08-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796056031757234" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Catalin Beldea (Descopera Magazine)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Crown of the Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080808.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWAWVSylcI/AAAAAAAAJJ8/FxzelDln_DM/s400/2008-08-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796056342173122" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Hartwig Luethen<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Aurora Persei<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080809.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWAWL7pSaI/AAAAAAAAJJ0/p5znKDHKUXE/s400/2008-08-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796053829175714" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College) The Crown of the Sun Credit & Copyright: Hartwig Luethen<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Eagle Rises<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080810.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWAWN3cWiI/AAAAAAAAJJs/yGp8Gt9vvio/s400/2008-08-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796054348421666" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Apollo 11, NASA - Stereo Image Copyright: John Kaufmann (ALSJ)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Black Hole Candidate Cygnus X-1<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080811.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWA1RgOVkI/AAAAAAAAJK0/IQscktRxtYY/s400/2008-08-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796587900720706" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: ESA, Hubble<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mars Panorama from the Phoenix Lander<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080812.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 94px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWA1fYt5KI/AAAAAAAAJKs/MdTKKXXtp5s/s400/2008-08-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796591627330722" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Phoenix Mission Team, NASA, JPL-Caltech, U. Arizona<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080813.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWA1MtngQI/AAAAAAAAJKk/7Mse2GzueT8/s400/2008-08-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796586614718722" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Perseid Trail<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080814.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWA1I5xm6I/AAAAAAAAJKc/SNS4Icuo1YQ/s400/2008-08-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796585591970722" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com / TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Facing NGC 6946<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080815.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWA07b83_I/AAAAAAAAJKU/x1xFHhOR33w/s400/2008-08-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796581977219058" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Volker Wendel (Spiegelteam)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Perseid over Vancouver<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080816.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBIpfGuwI/AAAAAAAAJLc/-97DhGp9qU0/s400/2008-08-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796920755993346" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Yuichi Takasaka (www.blue-moon.ca / TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Io's Surface: Under Construction<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080817.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBIrMS63I/AAAAAAAAJLU/fmXEKZJPIsc/s400/2008-08-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796921213971314" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Baily's Beads near Solar Eclipse Totality<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080818.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBISDJOEI/AAAAAAAAJLM/gRUW5Kd4q3U/s400/2008-08-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796914464700482" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Leonid Durman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080819.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBIcRWL6I/AAAAAAAAJLE/5ePFNmHtib0/s400/2008-08-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796917208625058" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mount Lemmon SkyCenter, Univ. Arizona<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Earth's Shadow<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080820.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBIWt1bWI/AAAAAAAAJK8/eqHu6Go78wQ/s400/2008-08-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315796915717500258" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">August Moons<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080821.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 336px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBbMUOj3I/AAAAAAAAJME/2b6_SO7LPtU/s400/2008-08-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797239343255410" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dennis Mammana (left), Laurent Laveder, TWAN<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Active Galaxy NGC 1275<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080822.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBbIJg32I/AAAAAAAAJL8/kIkIz_SsyCo/s400/2008-08-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797238224576354" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA); A. Fabian (IoA, Cambridge U.), L. Frattare (STScI), CXC, G. Taylor, NRAO,VLA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Matter of the Bullet Cluster<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080823.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBbIw-TzI/AAAAAAAAJL0/S232ZZ-Kisk/s400/2008-08-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797238390083378" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Composite Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/ M.Markevitch et al.; Lensing Map: NASA/STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan/U.Arizona/ D.Clowe et al. Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080824.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 351px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBa-pvkSI/AAAAAAAAJLs/qgckw5FFvV4/s400/2008-08-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797235675402530" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: FORS1, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 7008: The Fetus Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080825.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 343px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBawPi5uI/AAAAAAAAJLk/qPWjyeyh2wU/s400/2008-08-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797231807424226" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Don Goldman, Paul Mortfield<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">47 Tuc: A Great Globular Cluster of Stars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080826.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBrfQFlqI/AAAAAAAAJMs/xiGZuRzQSao/s400/2008-08-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797519304070818" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Thomas V. Davis (tvdavisastropix.com)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">IC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080827.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBrVa21EI/AAAAAAAAJMk/NxxLhG_wTpg/s400/2008-08-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797516664886338" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Fermi's First Light<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080828.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 199px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBrIcGtDI/AAAAAAAAJMc/J7l5bL3LhyY/s400/2008-08-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797513180460082" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, DOE, International LAT Team<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Generations of Stars in W5<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080829.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 353px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBrKuIbPI/AAAAAAAAJMU/qFtD-rrGohc/s400/2008-08-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797513792941298" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit Lori Allen, Xavier Koenig (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The View from Everest<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080830.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 48px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWBrPDi19I/AAAAAAAAJMM/cvCe2X5K0Lg/s400/2008-08-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797514956494802" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Roddy Mackenzie<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Eclipse over the Great Wall<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080831.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScWB_fHZPmI/AAAAAAAAJM0/wlwIB220F14/s400/2008-08-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315797862864993890" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Mike Simmons (Astronomers Without Borders, TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/08/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-8765757042314114115?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-554350169698954822009-01-05T09:35:00.001-07:002009-03-27T20:20:40.551-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>JULY 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Pickering's Triangle from Kitt Peak<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080701.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTCUKX3kuI/AAAAAAAAJEI/qpqPO3zNEwU/s400/2008-07-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587111841665762" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: T. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), H. Schweiker, WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Night Shinings<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080702.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTCT4xOK6I/AAAAAAAAJEA/35GG6h0Z5cg/s400/2008-07-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587107116166050" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net / TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Hoodoo Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080703.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTCT2pGOLI/AAAAAAAAJD4/Eo_Z9PdVG6c/s400/2008-07-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587106545219762" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com / TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">SN 1006 Supernova Remnant<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080704.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTCTw7-FLI/AAAAAAAAJDw/fhmnkPZjZ7w/s400/2008-07-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587105013765298" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Zolt Levay (STScI)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080705.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 138px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTCTkpo1kI/AAAAAAAAJDo/uRQxqoyevlQ/s400/2008-07-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587101715650114" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Antti Kemppainen<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Apollo 17: VIP Site Anaglyph<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080706.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 371px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTCozImPkI/AAAAAAAAJEw/ebyF_RqJLQY/s400/2008-07-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587466380852802" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Gene Cernan, Apollo 17, NASA; Anaglyph by Erik van Meijgaarden<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Southern Cross in a Southern Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080707.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTCo9OP1FI/AAAAAAAAJEo/FPXloqDFxhY/s400/2008-07-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587469088904274" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">In the Heart of the Virgo Cluster<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080708.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTCo1Uk1RI/AAAAAAAAJEg/cOnVYYeN568/s400/2008-07-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587466967962898" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Günter Kerschhuber (Gahberg Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Planets and Fire by Moonlight<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080709.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTCo330YYI/AAAAAAAAJEY/1DttsH1nm4Q/s400/2008-07-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587467652653442" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dmitrii Zagorodnov<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Enhanced Color Caloris<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080710.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 393px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTCosEBnDI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/GS-0cupCRJ4/s400/2008-07-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587464482626610" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ. APL, Arizona State U., CIW<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Far 3kpc Arm<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080711.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTC6_4VglI/AAAAAAAAJFY/7iISnzMkpok/s400/2008-07-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587779039953490" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Illustration Credit: R. Hurt (SSC), JPL-Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 7331 and Beyond<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080712.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 397px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTC6kWb5wI/AAAAAAAAJFQ/v32vxj8ULRs/s400/2008-07-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587771650008834" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman, Sierra Remote Observatories<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Dark Sky Over Death Valley<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080713.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 129px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTC6sUbQoI/AAAAAAAAJFI/MewvIsyhPwQ/s400/2008-07-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587773789061762" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Dan Duriscoe, U.S. National Park Service<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Changes in Angular Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080714.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTC6rT5kDI/AAAAAAAAJFA/PPxw6TzsFyk/s400/2008-07-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587773518417970" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Richard Bosman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Gas and Dust of the Lagoon Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080715.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTC6U6taqI/AAAAAAAAJE4/13OpOpE4ZL0/s400/2008-07-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315587767507184290" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Fred Vanderhaven<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Makemake of the Outer Solar System<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080716.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTDLHPzE-I/AAAAAAAAJGA/mC6TFqs2RMI/s400/2008-07-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588055895315426" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech), JPL-Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Extra Galaxies<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080717.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTDLD7wNnI/AAAAAAAAJF4/ZBpW86k5ILI/s400/2008-07-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588055005935218" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Jupiter over Ephesus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080718.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 164px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTDK-4ER1I/AAAAAAAAJFw/wbjjn3llUcA/s400/2008-07-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588053648295762" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M16 and the Eagle Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080719.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTDK4o8ZCI/AAAAAAAAJFo/rMnSK7dTehM/s400/2008-07-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588051974251554" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Crescent Rhea Occults Crescent Saturn<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080720.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTDK3ylP7I/AAAAAAAAJFg/vuWwQupm3Ow/s400/2008-07-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588051746242482" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 271<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080721.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 376px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTDrCQDt4I/AAAAAAAAJGo/isS7j4RyaoI/s400/2008-07-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588604310042498" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Gemini Observatory, GMOS-South, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080722.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTDrC5hQRI/AAAAAAAAJGg/0vs6KciKytM/s400/2008-07-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588604483944722" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Matt Harding & Melissa Nixon<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">High Cliffs Surrounding Echus Chasma on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080723.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTDq2HuyAI/AAAAAAAAJGY/wxGm-EGmVi8/s400/2008-07-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588601053890562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: G. Neukum (FU Berlin) et al., Mars Express, DLR, ESA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">When Storms Collide<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080724.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTDq7EpvvI/AAAAAAAAJGQ/xDMw3nUCO98/s400/2008-07-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588602383154930" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon-Miller (Goddard Space Flight Center), N. Chanover (NMSU), G. Orton (JPL)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Spitzer's M101<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080725.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTDqktL6aI/AAAAAAAAJGI/_LX-vZIaB8c/s400/2008-07-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588596379150754" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, K. Gordon (STScI) et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Central IC 1805<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080726.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTD7SwRY1I/AAAAAAAAJHQ/JSRxKSKpmIo/s400/2008-07-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588883618030418" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Keith Quattrocchi<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">IC 4406: A Seemingly Square Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080727.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTD7US2C1I/AAAAAAAAJHI/XMNgmc5A7VQ/s400/2008-07-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588884031474514" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: C. R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt U.) et al., Hubble Heritage Team, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">SDSSJ1430: A Galaxy Einstein Ring<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080728.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTD7fnmb0I/AAAAAAAAJHA/U8oaSURZQqc/s400/2008-07-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588887071321922" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: A. Bolton (UH/IfA) for SLACS and NASA/ESA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Milky Way Over Ontario<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080729.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 343px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTD7FyU7RI/AAAAAAAAJG4/LMnpCJDvdvs/s400/2008-07-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588880136989970" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn (Weather and Sky Photography)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The International Space Station Transits the Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080730.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTD7HuHqZI/AAAAAAAAJGw/cWkVTqD5zds/s400/2008-07-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315588880656214418" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Martin Wagner<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Galaxies on a String<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080731.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScTELX_HsBI/AAAAAAAAJHY/PMaXZjI6u5Y/s400/2008-07-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315589159900393490" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Acquisition - Martin Winder, Processing - Warren Keller<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/07/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-55435016969895482?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-57173790957249271082009-01-05T09:30:00.001-07:002009-03-27T19:46:59.710-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>JUNE 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080601.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRX9imzbMI/AAAAAAAAJAY/IlmEYR4i9hY/s400/2008-06-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470174977223874" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: SOHO Consortium, EIT, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Unusual Light Patch Under Phoenix Lander on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080602.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRX9qBW2zI/AAAAAAAAJAQ/pDhknG9_fH4/s400/2008-06-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470176967646002" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Phoenix Mission Team, NASA, JPL-Caltech, U. Arizona<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Dark River to Antares<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080603.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRX9lfTiaI/AAAAAAAAJAI/kX_D_N_p3L4/s400/2008-06-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470175751080354" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Máximo Ruiz<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Chasing the ISS<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080604.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRX9YwGdxI/AAAAAAAAJAA/0jPUCeg4qpM/s400/2008-06-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470172331865874" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jürgen Michelberger<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Spitzer's Milky Way<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080605.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 111px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRX9Jv1LuI/AAAAAAAAI_4/u2nY05L9LRw/s400/2008-06-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470168304201442" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: GLIMPSE, MIPSGAL, NASA, JPL-Caltech, Univ. Wisconsin<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Two-Armed Spiral Milky Way<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080606.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRYUOOs6fI/AAAAAAAAJBA/niRhwd4tQRc/s400/2008-06-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470564644415986" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Illustration Credit: R. Hurt (SSC), JPL-Caltech, NASA Survey Credit: GLIMPSE<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">June's Young Crescent Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080607.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRYUPW2pWI/AAAAAAAAJA4/ygBx9E3lSoA/s400/2008-06-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470564947043682" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mars Soil Sample Ready to Analyze<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080608.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRYTyZVrvI/AAAAAAAAJAw/WSjzvoHbwYc/s400/2008-06-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470557172838130" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Phoenix Mission Team, NASA, JPL-Caltech, U. Arizona<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Saturn's Rings from the Other Side<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080609.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 393px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRYT0BGKZI/AAAAAAAAJAo/Ij1CrFDoiig/s400/2008-06-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470557608028562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Fire Rainbow Over New Jersey<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080610.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRYTjlaGDI/AAAAAAAAJAg/te7jrUKD2uI/s400/2008-06-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470553196927026" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Paul Gitto (Arcturus Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Dextre Robot at Work on the Space Station<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080611.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRYmU7fWmI/AAAAAAAAJBo/xU1U-I_GxTE/s400/2008-06-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470875680528994" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: STS-124 Crew, Expedition 17 Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Phoenix and the Snow Queen<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080612.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRYmRkDmDI/AAAAAAAAJBg/NNHgwHlIktQ/s400/2008-06-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470874776934450" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Kenneth Kremer, Marco Di Lorenzo, Phoenix Mission, NASA, JPL, UA, Max Planck Inst., Aviation Week and Space Technology<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">At Last, GLAST<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080613.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRYmKuJU4I/AAAAAAAAJBY/6KwG6tG3QW4/s400/2008-06-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470872940204930" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Image Credit: Jerry Cannon, Robert Murray, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M51 Hubble Remix<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080614.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRYmF01tzI/AAAAAAAAJBQ/FSrrwrxFJLw/s400/2008-06-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470871626102578" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: S. Beckwith (STScI), Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA Additional Processing: Robert Gendler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Phoenix Digs for Clues on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080615.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRYmLuGsWI/AAAAAAAAJBI/TzoppNhFeXs/s400/2008-06-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315470873208467810" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Phoenix Mission Team, NASA, JPL-Caltech, U. Arizona, Texas A&M University<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Inside the Coma Cluster of Galaxies<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080616.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZAOwW6KI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/id555WHXCc0/s400/2008-06-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471320699824290" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: D. Carter (LJMU) et al. and the Coma HST ACS Treasury Team<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Eta Carinae and the Homunculus Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080617.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRY_l_TeHI/AAAAAAAAJCI/j4smJyo2kxg/s400/2008-06-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471309756659826" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: N. Smith, J. A. Morse (U. Colorado) et al., NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Pyramid Ice Crystal Halos Over Finland<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080618.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRY_kYq37I/AAAAAAAAJCA/d9ri4W4kHLs/s400/2008-06-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471309326180274" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Kari Nyman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Star Streams of NGC 5907<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080619.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRY_tD8eYI/AAAAAAAAJB4/spFa-QrR0IM/s400/2008-06-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471311655172482" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Image Credit & Copyright: R Jay Gabany (Blackbird Observatory) - collaboration; D.Martínez-Delgado(IAC, MPIA), J.Peñarrubia (U.Victoria) I. Trujillo (IAC) S.Majewski (U.Virginia), M.Pohlen (Cardiff),<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Solstice Moonrise, Cape Sounion<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080620.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRY_Sp0VBI/AAAAAAAAJBw/zFzLXBCqazs/s400/2008-06-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471304566264850" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Vanishing Act<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080621.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 357px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZSO_2vAI/AAAAAAAAJC4/5uHy3my7Qrk/s400/2008-06-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471630002469890" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Phoenix Mission Team, NASA, JPL-Caltech, U. Arizona, Texas A&M University<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080622.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZRzmnA_I/AAAAAAAAJCw/VWzt_CJUF7U/s400/2008-06-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471622648824818" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Hubble Heritage Team, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The International Space Station Expands Again<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080623.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZRx7ZRBI/AAAAAAAAJCo/MbqgOR1b2-I/s400/2008-06-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471622199133202" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: STS-124 Shuttle Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Ithaca Chasma: The Great Rift on Saturn's Tethys<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080624.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZR1QSc3I/AAAAAAAAJCg/Cy2Oze2yNMA/s400/2008-06-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471623092073330" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">What is Hanny's Voorwerp?<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080625.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZRhp2_oI/AAAAAAAAJCY/Knff-eEsOgg/s400/2008-06-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471617830616706" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Galaxy Zoo Project, ING<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M27: Not A Comet<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080626.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZmiSqefI/AAAAAAAAJDg/JBVoCFJoFPM/s400/2008-06-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471978779015666" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Nik Szymanek, w/Faulkes Telescope North<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M81: Feeding a Black Hole<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080627.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZmTbMiWI/AAAAAAAAJDY/hXeB8prT40k/s400/2008-06-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471974788270434" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Wisconsin/D.Pooley & CfA/A.Zezas; Optical: NASA/ESA/CfA/A.Zezas; UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA/J.Huchra et al.; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Fireball at Ayers Rock<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080628.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 348px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZmYPgr1I/AAAAAAAAJDQ/SzHHdhWgIBc/s400/2008-06-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471976081436498" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Joseph Brimacombe<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Shadow of a Martian Robot<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080629.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZmeA5gNI/AAAAAAAAJDI/7z-xgvCmufA/s400/2008-06-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471977630761170" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">In the Center of the Trifid Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080630.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScRZmb_jc3I/AAAAAAAAJDA/tHAU2Z-kkDw/s400/2008-06-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315471977088250738" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Daniel Lopez (Observatorio del Teide)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/06/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-5717379095724927108?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-11603323004427384682009-01-05T09:25:00.001-07:002009-03-27T19:09:50.455-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>MAY 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Giants of Omega Centauri<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080501.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOGiY_c2pI/AAAAAAAAI8A/Q2EiPCgEn10/s400/2008-05-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315239910609574546" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Martha Boyer (Univ. Minnesota), et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Shaping NGC 6188<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080502.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOGin-9xPI/AAAAAAAAI8I/HkPhD8eX00E/s400/2008-05-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315239914634069234" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: John Ebersole<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Alborz Mountain Milky Way<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080503.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 101px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOGirBMx1I/AAAAAAAAI8Q/UYSrYGCo3Y0/s400/2008-05-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315239915448747858" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080504.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOGi-4pXxI/AAAAAAAAI8Y/sJp_Lb8slzc/s400/2008-05-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315239920781582098" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit and Copyright: Fred Bruenjes (moonglow.net)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Persistent Electrical Storm on Saturn<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080505.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 365px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOGi_LHPeI/AAAAAAAAI8g/HHekZ4Kos7s/s400/2008-05-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315239920859037154" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Galaxies Collide in NGC 3256<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080506.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOG5iwg3XI/AAAAAAAAI8o/LNWXGNnQFao/s400/2008-05-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240308368268658" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration, & A. Evans (UVa, NRAO, SUNYSB)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Gegenschein Over Chile<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080507.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOG5tEAWDI/AAAAAAAAI8w/oN2Ln8NqzYc/s400/2008-05-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240311134378034" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Dark Tower in Scorpius<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080508.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOG5zM2baI/AAAAAAAAI84/saa8C_Q8Llk/s400/2008-05-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240312782089634" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moon Meets Mercury<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080509.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOG55vcNOI/AAAAAAAAI9A/s35lwf-oIc0/s400/2008-05-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240314537784546" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies, TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Stars and Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080510.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 352px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOG6I0TLmI/AAAAAAAAI9I/1ZCDBrUcfF4/s400/2008-05-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240318584696418" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Doug Zubenel (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Retrograde Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080511.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 324px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOHNafbDvI/AAAAAAAAI9Q/fV5tSDSZ3j0/s400/2008-05-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240649746484978" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The M81 Galaxy Group Through the Integrated Flux Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080512.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOHNWIyEhI/AAAAAAAAI9Y/UTLVeunOxhM/s400/2008-05-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240648577782290" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jordi Gallego<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Ancient Craters of Southern Rhea<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080513.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 394px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOHNhFUNxI/AAAAAAAAI9g/rNkBZjurq-M/s400/2008-05-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240651516032786" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Supply Ship Docks with the International Space Station<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080514.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOHNrFVCjI/AAAAAAAAI9o/YPtiXHz6m1M/s400/2008-05-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240654200441394" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: ISS Expedition 16 Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sideways Galaxy NGC 3628<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080515.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOHNheGXgI/AAAAAAAAI9w/ccnG-cukuYU/s400/2008-05-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240651619982850" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Keith Quattrocchi<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Circles in the Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080516.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOHeA37_QI/AAAAAAAAI94/hSNrDQTtGNM/s400/2008-05-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240934927760642" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jean-Marc Lecleire<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Logarithmic Spirals<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080517.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOHeZHXVtI/AAAAAAAAI-A/rvG-wxBhWP4/s400/2008-05-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240941434918610" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Image Credit: M101 - NASA, ESA, CFHT, NOAO; Typhoon Rammasun - MODIS, NASA Comparison: Lawrence Anderson-Huang (Ritter Astrophysical Obs., Univ. Toledo)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">On the Origin of Gold<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080518.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 167px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOHeQdUosI/AAAAAAAAI-I/Axb5Bl_2HB0/s400/2008-05-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240939111097026" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Illustration Credit : Dana Berry, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Flying Over the Columbia Hills of Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080519.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOHeoaYftI/AAAAAAAAI-Q/k8UjMDYtZDM/s400/2008-05-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240945541218002" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Animated Illustration Credit: Doug Ellison, Randolph Kirk (USGS), MSSS, MER, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080520.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOHeq-5DrI/AAAAAAAAI-Y/WsGPietngDQ/s400/2008-05-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315240946231217842" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum Astronomia), Hawaiian Starlight<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Dangerous Sunrise on Gliese 876d<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080521.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOH5lLV0yI/AAAAAAAAI_A/6rF0p2Hgi-0/s400/2008-05-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241408529290018" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Illustration Credit & Copyright: Inga Nielsen (Hamburg Obs., Gate to Nowhere)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Windblown NGC 3199<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080522.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOH5rTgi2I/AAAAAAAAI-4/fWru-KcCYQE/s400/2008-05-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241410174159714" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory), Macedon Ranges Observatory<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Jupiter's Three Red Spots<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080523.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 381px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOH5tl-HkI/AAAAAAAAI-w/Vxu5DMYokto/s400/2008-05-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241410788466242" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit NASA, ESA, M. Wong, I. de Pater (UC Berkeley), et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Space Station in the Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080524.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOH5VYmRoI/AAAAAAAAI-o/JrKhGAEx2Ws/s400/2008-05-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241404289926786" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dirk Ewers<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Phoenix Lander Arrives at Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080525.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOH5J38JdI/AAAAAAAAI-g/Fw44P-sMVao/s400/2008-05-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241401200158162" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Animated Illustration Credit & Copyright: MAAS Digital, SVV Project, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A New Horizon for Phoenix<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080526.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOINUdcYJI/AAAAAAAAI_o/XOEk5ohNOJM/s400/2008-05-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241747639197842" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Phoenix Mission Team, NASA, JPL-Caltech, Univ. Arizona<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Phoenix at Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080527.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOINHh7jxI/AAAAAAAAI_g/jnzWiFLqDPM/s400/2008-05-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241744168357650" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Phoenix, HiRISE, NASA, JPL-Caltech, Univ. Arizona<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Dark Clouds of the Carina Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080528.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 194px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOINKhmU7I/AAAAAAAAI_Y/3hJNqz9eOws/s400/2008-05-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241744972272562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (U. California, Berkeley) et al., and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Fog Bow Over Ocean Beach<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080529.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOINAAAMSI/AAAAAAAAI_Q/mACfGoiKq38/s400/2008-05-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241742147006754" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Keith C. Langill (missionblvd.com)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Descent of the Phoenix<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080530.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 199px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOIM816N2I/AAAAAAAAI_I/SO5bD0eNFr0/s400/2008-05-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241741299365730" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: MRO-HiRISE, NASA, JPL, Univ. Arizona<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A View to the Sunset<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080531.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 235px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/ScOIXLeY4tI/AAAAAAAAI_w/beNIjOdETi4/s400/2008-05-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315241917025936082" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/05/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-1160332300442738468?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-49899680787004461112009-01-05T09:20:00.001-07:002009-03-27T18:50:46.275-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>APRIL 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">New Space Station Robot Asks to be Called "Dextre the Magnificent"<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080401.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH1dEc4jTI/AAAAAAAAGKQ/TC5cWwhPZmE/s400/2008-04-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247244920623238450" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Expedition 16 Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Globular Cluster M55 from CFHT<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080402.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH1dNTYM5I/AAAAAAAAGKY/-T_rlSjWN0Y/s400/2008-04-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247244922999288722" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum Astronomia), Hawaiian Starlight<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">South of Orion<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080403.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH1dQuD3XI/AAAAAAAAGKg/rwXo4iqToqY/s400/2008-04-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247244923916508530" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Layers in Aureum Chaos<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080404.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH1drPUqwI/AAAAAAAAGKo/y28rwtytG0s/s400/2008-04-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247244931035343618" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Jules Verne in Orbit<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080405.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH1d9MmmSI/AAAAAAAAGKw/cnrDYkzwTPk/s400/2008-04-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247244935855773986" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: ISS Expedition 16 Crew, NASA, ESA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Wisps Surrounding the Horsehead Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080406.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH157iDTdI/AAAAAAAAGK4/WrybxDXnSJU/s400/2008-04-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247245416445201874" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Star Shadows Remote Observatory<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mysterious White Rock Fingers on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080407.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH16HqpSqI/AAAAAAAAGLA/3osBkJ831TE/s400/2008-04-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247245419702471330" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: G. Neukum (FU Berlin) et al., Mars Express, DLR Mars Express<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Southern Orion: From Belt to Witch<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080408.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH16ILhunI/AAAAAAAAGLI/9qeA-0CxFrs/s400/2008-04-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247245419840387698" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Large Magellanic Cloud Deep Field<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080409.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH16fxI-nI/AAAAAAAAGLQ/tzqNv6qoidE/s400/2008-04-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247245426172164722" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Stickney Crater<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080410.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH1603IKbI/AAAAAAAAGLY/v-_-anrqg4Y/s400/2008-04-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247245431834421682" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">At first, he couldn't see the Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080411.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH2T6tQQFI/AAAAAAAAGLg/nDk5yp6E_1I/s400/2008-04-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247245862900351058" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net / TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Yuri's Planet<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080412.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH2T2uRkAI/AAAAAAAAGLo/WmP4pTlijKM/s400/2008-04-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247245861830889474" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Image Credit: ISS Expedition 7 Crew, EOL, NASA (Image record from Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Curious Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080413.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH2UC7XBEI/AAAAAAAAGLw/OYVpoSE3cJM/s400/2008-04-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247245865106998338" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: C. R. O'Dell and K. Handron (Rice University), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080414.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH2UHFfU5I/AAAAAAAAGL4/3iOmO0e2T60/s400/2008-04-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247245866223227794" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sky Delights Over Sweden<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080415.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH2UZ_UOqI/AAAAAAAAGMA/tRdbNn42Sco/s400/2008-04-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247245871297608354" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit and Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies, TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Protected Night Sky Over Flagstaff<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080416.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH24AawlLI/AAAAAAAAGMI/bUl2eyg2voE/s400/2008-04-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247246482908681394" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit and Copyright: Dan & Cindy Duriscoe, FDSC, Lowell Obs., USNO<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Messier 63: The Sunflower Galaxy<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080417.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH24TwIUXI/AAAAAAAAGMQ/K3k1aeFQyr0/s400/2008-04-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247246488098591090" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">IC 2948: The Running Chicken Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080418.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH24cOjPOI/AAAAAAAAGMY/wTCW-IDFwZQ/s400/2008-04-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247246490373668066" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Steve Crouch<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Running Messier's Marathon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080419.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH24ndfAOI/AAAAAAAAGMg/S-lUNf9TtVE/s400/2008-04-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247246493389095138" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Amir Hossein Abolfath<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Spiral Galaxies in Collision<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080420.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH24t2wqRI/AAAAAAAAGMo/Crj5JF4iD2I/s400/2008-04-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247246495105722642" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Debra Meloy Elmegreen (Vassar College) et al., & the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Bacteriophages: The Most Common Life-Like Form on Earth<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080421.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH3M4Iva0I/AAAAAAAAGMw/fArDcZ9lUE8/s400/2008-04-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247246841462876994" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Wikipedia; Insert: Mike Jones<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Fox Fur Nebula from CFHT<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080422.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH3NBk4B3I/AAAAAAAAGM4/tUSvVE-6A_o/s400/2008-04-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247246843996800882" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum Astronomia), Hawaiian Starlight<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Above the Clouds<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080423.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH3NR7_oXI/AAAAAAAAGNA/tz_nMaIwweM/s400/2008-04-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247246848388735346" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Serge Brunier (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Cygnus Without Stars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080424.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH3Nld17pI/AAAAAAAAGNI/INoJawBaVlE/s400/2008-04-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247246853630979730" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Igor Chekalin<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M86 in the Virgo Cluster<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080425.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH3N_9cysI/AAAAAAAAGNQ/M6LvqrPiGcs/s400/2008-04-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247246860742871746" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Greg Morgan (Sierra Remote Observatories)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Tarantula Zone<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080426.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH3gTe7AGI/AAAAAAAAGNY/h_pDDvdH3LI/s400/2008-04-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247247175221182562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Galactic Center Radio Arc<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080427.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH3gYTEv7I/AAAAAAAAGNg/ycQlg3Z0WpI/s400/2008-04-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247247176513666994" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Farhad Zadeh et al. (Northwestern), VLA, NRAO<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Star Forming Region NGC 3582<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080428.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH3ghv_UOI/AAAAAAAAGNo/K_b1Vr7S02A/s400/2008-04-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247247179050864866" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska), T. Abbott, NOAO, AURA, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Airplane Flight Patterns over the USA<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080429.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH3giQrtxI/AAAAAAAAGNw/LWIeReHrU88/s400/2008-04-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247247179187992338" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Aaron Koblin, FAA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Arp 272<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080430.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SNH3g-nKTqI/AAAAAAAAGN4/4Itp-EcigYA/s400/2008-04-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247247186798464674" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration, K. Noll (STScI)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/04/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-4989968078700446111?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-25803363142121792972009-01-05T09:15:00.001-07:002009-03-27T18:44:33.621-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>MARCH 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mauna Kea Shadow Play<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080301.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R8juBT1enhI/AAAAAAAAF5U/zDAb0kunD00/s400/2008-03-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172645878306872850" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Alex Mukensnable<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080302.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R8s2hT1enjI/AAAAAAAAF50/9OzuzPF8Syw/s400/2008-03-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173288542853307954" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: A. Dimai, (Col Druscie Obs.), AAC<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sand Dunes Thawing on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080303.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R9O5SGK7UrI/AAAAAAAAGBc/OzfoGr0tBB4/s400/2008-03-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175684117324059314" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080304.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R9O57WK7UvI/AAAAAAAAGB8/gZGtBtuMD-I/s400/2008-03-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175684825993663218" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska), T. Abbott, NOAO, AURA, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The International Space Station Expands Again<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080305.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R9O6h2K7UyI/AAAAAAAAGCU/FXJKxe5x1Ng/s400/2008-03-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175685487418626850" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: STS-122 Shuttle Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Vela Supernova Remnant<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080306.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R9O7mmK7U5I/AAAAAAAAGDM/2wDUXE2jEUg/s400/2008-03-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175686668534633362" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet over California<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080307.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R9O77GK7U6I/AAAAAAAAGDU/vhFpstHmOI8/s400/2008-03-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175687020721951650" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies, TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M104 Hubble Remix<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080308.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R9O8OWK7U7I/AAAAAAAAGDc/yT-qe_OQzw8/s400/2008-03-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175687351434433458" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Vicent Peris (OAUV / PTeam), MAST, STScI, AURA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">CMBR Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080309.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R9O8sWK7U8I/AAAAAAAAGDk/Dcra5DZha6k/s400/2008-03-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175687866830508994" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: DMR, COBE, NASA, Four-Year Sky Map<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Planets Align Over Australian Radio Telescope Array<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080310.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8eQ41XsdI/AAAAAAAAGHg/Vpdg1dPf8l0/s400/2008-03-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246445366392893906" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Graeme L. White & Glen Cozens (James Cook University)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">An Avalanche on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080311.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8eQ0TopDI/AAAAAAAAGHo/ZenUkR0JGHI/s400/2008-03-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246445365177656370" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Star Forming Region LH 95<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080312.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8eRHcIyOI/AAAAAAAAGHw/8kwGK4F4iNY/s400/2008-03-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246445370313591010" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Hubble Heritage Team, D. Gouliermis (MPI Heidelberg) et al., (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sculpting the South Pillar<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080313.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8eRKrGWEI/AAAAAAAAGH4/EgTZKmzY8mI/s400/2008-03-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246445371181652034" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Nathan Smith (Univ. of Colorado), et al., SSC, JPL, Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Endeavour into the Night<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080314.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8eRbdPEYI/AAAAAAAAGIA/AJQhhb7U6Es/s400/2008-03-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246445375686906242" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, Jerry Cannon, Rusty Backer<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moon over Byzantium<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080315.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8fNbDG6_I/AAAAAAAAGII/l7WLYqaXZPs/s400/2008-03-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246446406369471474" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Endeavour to Orbit<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080316.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8fNiTqZVI/AAAAAAAAGIQ/MPx_5hBEMkE/s400/2008-03-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246446408317953362" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: James N. Brown<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Thirty Thousand Kilometers Above Enceladus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080317.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8fN00ot-I/AAAAAAAAGIY/TkDI636W5dk/s400/2008-03-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246446413288093666" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M78 and Reflecting Dust Clouds in Orion<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080318.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8fN92bamI/AAAAAAAAGIg/6T1Rk6J0fqo/s400/2008-03-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246446415711529570" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mercury in Accentuated Color<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080319.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8fN9-lhUI/AAAAAAAAGIo/g5-dTzRAh8s/s400/2008-03-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246446415745746242" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: MESSENGER, NASA, JHU APL, CIW<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sunset: Planet Earth<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080320.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8frcV8tfI/AAAAAAAAGIw/kLtT9f9S2pQ/s400/2008-03-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246446922113005042" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Expedition 15 Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Where is HD 189733?<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080321.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8frQ8WI1I/AAAAAAAAGI4/0tdQoFKbPB0/s400/2008-03-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246446919052829522" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Image Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Fujii, and Z. Levay (STScI)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Cat's Eye Hubble Remix<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080322.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8frl4hfjI/AAAAAAAAGJA/quBX8Qsm2-E/s400/2008-03-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246446924673941042" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Vicent Peris (OAUV / PTeam), MAST, STScI, AURA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Molecular Cloud Barnard 68<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080323.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8frvuN-qI/AAAAAAAAGJI/hNLWi92NBXo/s400/2008-03-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246446927315073698" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Saturn and Titan from Cassini<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080324.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8fr5HohdI/AAAAAAAAGJQ/0abu2kzj8OA/s400/2008-03-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246446929837589970" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080325.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8gOCd7wgI/AAAAAAAAGJY/FKzMWmxXPIc/s400/2008-03-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246447516462596610" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Rainer Zmaritsch & Alexander Gross<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The NGC 3576 Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080326.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8gOBJs5qI/AAAAAAAAGJg/LP_BUvvh_BQ/s400/2008-03-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246447516109301410" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory), Macedon Ranges Observatory<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The N44 Complex<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080327.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8gORDtUnI/AAAAAAAAGJo/N1qhQvm6vvo/s400/2008-03-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246447520379130482" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman, Macedon Ranges Observatory<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Across the Universe<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080328.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8gOQ06lxI/AAAAAAAAGJw/OkGuckKfGAs/s400/2008-03-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246447520317085458" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA Swift Team, Stefan Immler (GSFC) et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080329.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8gOhrUgII/AAAAAAAAGJ4/6luAJk8UoAU/s400/2008-03-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246447524840243330" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Weak Lensing Distorts the Universe<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080330.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8gpQNMfgI/AAAAAAAAGKA/wpP8YAW9ddc/s400/2008-03-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246447984006954498" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: S. Colombi (IAP), CFHT Team<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Close Up of Enceladus' Tiger Stripes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080331.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SM8gpq6a7II/AAAAAAAAGKI/TYxz-U1eCos/s400/2008-03-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246447991175965826" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Paul Schenk (LPI), USRA; Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/03/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-2580336314212179297?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-28384480434193745102009-01-05T09:10:00.003-07:002009-03-31T18:59:12.737-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>FEBRUARY 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The First Explorer<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080201.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLE6juc_jI/AAAAAAAALGI/7NdF1RKhUq4/s400/2008-02-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319530620179512882" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Courtesy of Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Venus and Jupiter in Morning Skies<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080202.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLE6WQwDOI/AAAAAAAALGA/0JHT-z5tFGM/s400/2008-02-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319530616565271778" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Light Echoes from V838 Mon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080203.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 352px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLE6auACjI/AAAAAAAALF4/UQdQrVKvdik/s400/2008-02-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319530617761696306" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Spider Shaped Crater on Mercury<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080204.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLE6Y8vqTI/AAAAAAAALFw/XjFnP9ly4VY/s400/2008-02-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319530617286666546" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: MESSENGER, NASA, JHU APL, CIW<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Three Month Composite of Comet Holmes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080205.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLE6Pyx5bI/AAAAAAAALFo/PaeYyf_RdgY/s400/2008-02-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319530614828950962" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: John Pane<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Sunspot in the New Solar Cycle<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080206.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 230px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLFQlVCk-I/AAAAAAAALGw/Zp0XE1Z8jXE/s400/2008-02-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319530998566917090" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 4013 and the Tidal Stream<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080207.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLFQZwbsTI/AAAAAAAALGo/ProAspi939E/s400/2008-02-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319530995460583730" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">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)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Bay of Rainbows<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080208.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLFP9e5dGI/AAAAAAAALGg/iJGC7CgwG1o/s400/2008-02-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319530987870844002" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Atlantis on Pad 39A<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080209.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLFPsQoLJI/AAAAAAAALGY/ktC2Wk0BFKE/s400/2008-02-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319530983247588498" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Image Credit: NASA, Kim Shiflett<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080210.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLFO7GhHmI/AAAAAAAALGQ/ELCjxg6h5O0/s400/2008-02-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319530970051845730" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Saturn's Moon Epimetheus from the Cassini Spacecraft<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080211.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLFiT0fAFI/AAAAAAAALHY/fnCTMTMCN6w/s400/2008-02-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319531303104610386" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Echoes from RS Pup<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080212.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLFifxzgII/AAAAAAAALHQ/0LYM5ncq5co/s400/2008-02-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319531306314596482" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Pierre Kervella (Obs. de Paris), Antoine Mérand (CHARA), et al., ESO<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1132<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080213.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLFiKpUOpI/AAAAAAAALHI/-6C2FUQ34Oo/s400/2008-02-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319531300641847954" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, ESA, M. West (ESO, Chile), and CXC / Penn. State / G. Garmire, et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Long Stem Rosette<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080214.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLFhx5yLrI/AAAAAAAALHA/rruIq8qtFFg/s400/2008-02-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319531294000033458" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Adam Block (Caelum Observatory) and Tim Puckett<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080215.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLFhZkpPyI/AAAAAAAALG4/GxNG--N7Vvg/s400/2008-02-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319531287468916514" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA JPL-Caltech, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Large Binocular Telescope<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080216.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLF6njSviI/AAAAAAAALIA/_U8KoiL-pjo/s400/2008-02-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319531720718073378" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080217.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLF6KsORhI/AAAAAAAALH4/t66r6TbFdeU/s400/2008-02-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319531712970901010" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester, A. Loll (ASU); Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (Skyfactory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">BLG-109: A Distant Version of our own Solar System<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080218.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLF596-wiI/AAAAAAAALHw/wh8Vwf_pDKA/s400/2008-02-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319531709543137826" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Illustration Credit: KASI, CBNU, ARCSEC, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Columbus Laboratory Installed on Space Station<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080219.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLF5u6ML_I/AAAAAAAALHo/CHovQlvZiWo/s400/2008-02-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319531705513291762" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: STS-122 Crew, Expedition 16 Crew, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moon Slide Slim<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080220.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 356px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLF47fPw2I/AAAAAAAALHg/5o6qIk3CY7E/s400/2008-02-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319531691710071650" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Orion's Horsehead Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080221.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLGMvYQFmI/AAAAAAAALIo/eBiAT0ehYg4/s400/2008-02-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319532032056890978" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Victor Bertol<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Eclipsed Moonlight<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080222.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLGMRWRawI/AAAAAAAALIg/eyMsQvZ_wAA/s400/2008-02-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319532023995525890" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Stereo Space Station<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080223.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLGMDTaJSI/AAAAAAAALIY/AdMZI-MR-7Q/s400/2008-02-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319532020225418530" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: STS-122, NASA - Stereo Anaglyph: Patrick Vantuyne<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 4676: When Mice Collide<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080224.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLGMH_eCrI/AAAAAAAALIQ/-EyYDOpJNc0/s400/2008-02-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319532021483965106" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: ACS Science & Engineering Team, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Dawn of the Large Hadron Collider<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080225.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLGLw34mQI/AAAAAAAALII/upgc6QbUwm8/s400/2008-02-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319532015278135554" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Maximilien Brice, CERN<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mysterious Acid Haze on Venus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080226.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 331px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLGgCq6ARI/AAAAAAAALJI/mgEBkAZXZ5g/s400/2008-02-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319532363652923666" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: ESA/MPS, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Eagle Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080227.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 378px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLGgLjMz2I/AAAAAAAALJA/MjaD_SLht9M/s400/2008-02-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319532366036520802" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: IAC, Daniel Lopez<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">ISS: Sunlight to Shadow<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080228.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLGf5UkMwI/AAAAAAAALI4/LBxnuJ4pSbc/s400/2008-02-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319532361143300866" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Till Credner, AlltheSky.com<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Twelve Lunar Eclipses<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080229.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdLGfh7VgLI/AAAAAAAALIw/mAeY8TLaEyM/s400/2008-02-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319532354863464626" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/02/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-2838448043419374510?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-35739852429869963192009-01-05T09:05:00.003-07:002009-03-31T18:11:09.357-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>JANUARY 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Rays from an Unexpected Aurora<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080101.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK3QkhjWQI/AAAAAAAALA0/L0NxDZs3om0/s400/2008-01-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319515605188172034" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Lyndon Anderson (Prairie Journal)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Galaxy is not a Comet<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080102.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK3Qu6RY0I/AAAAAAAALAs/9b6DCqpC4q8/s400/2008-01-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319515607976207170" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Emiel Kempen<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Geminids in 2007<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080103.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK3Qozb3YI/AAAAAAAALAk/A9KmrabdufI/s400/2008-01-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319515606336920962" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Erno Berko<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Milky Way at 5000 Meters<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080104.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK3QWuUeII/AAAAAAAALAc/6W3-UGEYirk/s400/2008-01-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319515601483626626" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Serge Brunier<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M51: Cosmic Whirlpool<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080105.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK3QeHb5jI/AAAAAAAALAU/zcTSxPkDjM8/s400/2008-01-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319515603468019250" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: S. Beckwith (STScI) Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Jupiter's Rings Revealed<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080106.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK42y_2bAI/AAAAAAAALC0/vzG73fKJdRc/s400/2008-01-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319517361420004354" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: (NOAO), J. Burns (Cornell) et al., Galileo Project, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Quadrantid Meteors and Aurora from the Air<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080107.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK427b4UhI/AAAAAAAALCs/HoHIuKqohKs/s400/2008-01-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319517363685052946" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Jeremie Vaubaillon et al., Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Jupiter-Io Montage from New Horizons<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080108.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK42rNedWI/AAAAAAAALCk/4il7GzjJUgA/s400/2008-01-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319517359329670498" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Hidden Galaxy IC 342 from Kitt Peak<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080109.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK42vPplbI/AAAAAAAALCc/Z-N-QoHLgS0/s400/2008-01-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319517360412530098" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: T. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), H. Schweiker, WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Active Galaxy Centaurus A<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080110.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK42laoAhI/AAAAAAAALCU/iQDzn62sUYA/s400/2008-01-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319517357774209554" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">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.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Polaris Dust Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080111.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5NbMUtVI/AAAAAAAALDc/v7AkpB74CHs/s400/2008-01-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319517750166861138" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Mandel (Hidden Valley Observatory) Research Collaboration: Adolf Witt (University of Toledo) et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mercury Chases the Sunset<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080112.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5NAfABRI/AAAAAAAALDU/6nhup-qUpO4/s400/2008-01-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319517742997439762" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Image Credit & Copyright: Doug Zubenel<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Hurricane Ivan from the Space Station<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080113.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5NH4qzwI/AAAAAAAALDM/e5OUEpwnqSU/s400/2008-01-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319517744984149762" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Expedition 9 Crew, International Space Station, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Cocoon Nebula from CFHT<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080114.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 336px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5NK-ielI/AAAAAAAALDE/4tL_L8rpF_g/s400/2008-01-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319517745814075986" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Double Supernova Remnants DEM L316<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080115.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5NA7QnqI/AAAAAAAALC8/ayeBUJN6E0I/s400/2008-01-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319517743115968162" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Gemini Observatory, GMOS-South, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">MESSENGER Passes Mercury<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080116.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5dDDeGQI/AAAAAAAALEE/fyTj4dwfVUE/s400/2008-01-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518018565183746" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: MESSENGER Teams, JHU APL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Thor's Emerald Helmet<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080117.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5dKxtkYI/AAAAAAAALD8/Ld3U0fIrZVY/s400/2008-01-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518020638183810" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Supernova Factory NGC 2770<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080118.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5dEdObeI/AAAAAAAALD0/fp4AGFkLBgc/s400/2008-01-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518018941644258" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: A. de Ugarte Postigo (ESO) et al., Dark Cosmology Centre (NBI, KU), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), University of Hertfordshire<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Starry Night Castle<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080119.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5c_59ogI/AAAAAAAALDs/a6x2wFbY6cM/s400/2008-01-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518017720001026" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet McNaught Over Chile<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080120.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5ct1JQTI/AAAAAAAALDk/ySAzdoK2IaM/s400/2008-01-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518012867952946" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mercury's Horizon from MESSENGER<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080121.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5yNtbPcI/AAAAAAAALEs/ATkch-h_C-M/s400/2008-01-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518382202764738" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: MESSENGER Teams, JHU APL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Shelf Cloud Over Saskatchewan<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080122.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5yNWtLhI/AAAAAAAALEk/vGz2Y7M3j0Q/s400/2008-01-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518382107471378" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Jeff Kerr<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Orbiting Astronaut Reflects Earth<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080123.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5x21xP9I/AAAAAAAALEc/IBHcLj39tm4/s400/2008-01-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518376063746002" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Clayton C. Anderson, Expedition 15 Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Andromeda Island Universe<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080124.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5x_z9YKI/AAAAAAAALEU/QicOqMj1ZG0/s400/2008-01-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518378472071330" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Winter Night at Pic du Midi<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080125.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK5xxQ25aI/AAAAAAAALEM/1OpvDgpghEM/s400/2008-01-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518374566749602" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Alain Sallez (picdumidi.org), David Romeuf (Université Lyon 1)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Crescent Mercury in Color<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080126.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK6FOx79wI/AAAAAAAALFU/HiITsvgwm-o/s400/2008-01-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518708907636482" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: MESSENGER, NASA, JHU APL, CIW<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mercury on the Horizon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080127.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK6FBSPdXI/AAAAAAAALFM/-d0CXgK51SM/s400/2008-01-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518705285035378" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Solar Eclipse Painting from the 1700s<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080128.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK6Ezyq5iI/AAAAAAAALFE/WEtkkxoXFLA/s400/2008-01-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518701662955042" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Painting Credit: Cosmas Damian Asam; Digital Image Copyright: Jay Pasachoff<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">West Valley Panorama from the Spirit Rover on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080129.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 109px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK6E-cwm8I/AAAAAAAALE8/BIGmWYDy5n4/s400/2008-01-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518704523844546" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Asteroid 2007 TU24 Passes the Earth<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080130.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 388px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK6E2M6EHI/AAAAAAAALE0/_eK38ik_n7A/s400/2008-01-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518702309871730" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Green Bank Radio Telescope, Arecibo Radio Telescope<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Young Star Cluster Westerlund 2<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080131.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdK6VEY5f1I/AAAAAAAALFc/O_C4_ifHtCw/s400/2008-01-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319518980996169554" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: X-ray; Y.Nazé, G.Rauw, J.Manfroid (Université de Liège), CXC, NASA—Infrared; E.Churchwell (University of Wisconsin), JPL, Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2008/01/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-3573985242986996319?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-54740367405531677472009-01-05T09:02:00.003-07:002009-03-31T16:00:40.356-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>2007 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY TOP 12 GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—1</strong><br /><br />The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKdil1ADrI/AAAAAAAAK_U/uCyhwO5Hiu0/s400/2007-TOP12-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487327473503922" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Robert H. McNaught<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—2</strong><br /><br />Alborz Mountains in Moonlight<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKdiUennLI/AAAAAAAAK_M/U3rLdxwXtaE/s400/2007-TOP12-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487322816224434" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—3</strong><br /><br />Eclipsing the Rings<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKdiaap26I/AAAAAAAAK_E/2OLWfe8wsWE/s400/2007-TOP12-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487324410207138" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Pete Lawrence (Digital-Astronomy)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—4</strong><br /><br />Seven Dusty Sisters<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKdiVoxppI/AAAAAAAAK-8/s8n7nzeNtMw/s400/2007-TOP12-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487323127260818" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, J. Stauffer (SSC, Caltech)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—5</strong><br /><br />Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKdiJs6WsI/AAAAAAAAK-0/QKx1zf9OJDE/s400/2007-TOP12-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487319923382978" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA) Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: L. Jenkins (GSFC/U. Leicester)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—6</strong><br /><br />A Dark Sky Over Death Valley<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 129px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKd1GTkOwI/AAAAAAAAK_8/WAMkjbzvKqQ/s400/2007-TOP12-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487645429283586" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Dan Duriscoe, U.S. National Park Service<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—7</strong><br /><br />Markarian's Eyes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKd1LmIJVI/AAAAAAAAK_0/jIXVPPCmePw/s400/2007-TOP12-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487646849312082" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—8</strong><br /><br />The International Space Station Expands Again<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKd1KjOq4I/AAAAAAAAK_s/k6k7uDXc1rM/s400/2007-TOP12-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487646568721282" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: STS-117 Shuttle Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—9</strong><br /><br />Northern Cygnus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKd0-dV5FI/AAAAAAAAK_k/s78jtukETNY/s400/2007-TOP12-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487643322803282" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—10</strong><br /><br />The Strange Trailing Side of Saturn's Iapetus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKd04SfmfI/AAAAAAAAK_c/Q7qHbJkL4V0/s400/2007-TOP12-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487641666689522" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—11</strong><br /><br />Victoria Crater on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 59px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKeGFHpSuI/AAAAAAAALAM/Me77YERB-2U/s400/2007-TOP12-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487937168624354" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NASA ASTRONOMY YEARS' TOP 12 PICTURE OF THE DAY—12</strong><br /><br />A Tale of Comet Holmes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKeGNbWDhI/AAAAAAAALAE/_2weT8gOFNM/s400/2007-TOP12-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319487939398733330" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder and (inset) Paolo Berardi<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2007/12/nasa-apod-top-12-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-5474036740553167747?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-35730134288170605642009-01-05T09:00:00.004-07:002009-03-31T19:14:29.252-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>DECEMBER 2007 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M74: The Perfect Spiral<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071201.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKSqCi9p_I/AAAAAAAAK7c/NK0ncUYy-TU/s400/2007-12-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319475360813656050" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA)- ESA / Hubble Collaboration Acknowledgment: R. Chandar (Univ. Toledo) and J. Miller (Univ. Michigan)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Gibbous Europa<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071202.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKSp80CoRI/AAAAAAAAK7U/GQE3vT66ajM/s400/2007-12-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319475359274672402" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA; reprocessed by Ted Stryk<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Complete Solar Cycle from SOHO<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071203.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKSpwcBZ1I/AAAAAAAAK7M/24uHYDyy5gg/s400/2007-12-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319475355952703314" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Movie: Analemma Over New Jersey<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071204.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKSp4mXWbI/AAAAAAAAK7E/ieLMotgLGw8/s400/2007-12-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319475358143568306" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tom Matheson (Guidescope.net)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Holmes Over Hungary<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071205.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKSpnQgwtI/AAAAAAAAK68/6VVN7SlJq1o/s400/2007-12-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319475353488507602" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mars in View<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071206.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 380px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKTHmo38jI/AAAAAAAAK8E/10UCFnHVBs8/s400/2007-12-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319475868718330418" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne, Francois Colas<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Double Cluster in Perseus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071207.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKTHgJ7OMI/AAAAAAAAK78/iu9EQ58vigs/s400/2007-12-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319475866977908930" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Volker Wendel, Josef Popsel, Stefan Binnewies<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Star Trails at Dawn<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071208.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKTHY_9a0I/AAAAAAAAK70/Pfd7ar71xLY/s400/2007-12-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319475865057061698" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Koen van Gorp<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Fairy of Eagle Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071209.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 198px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKTHZF8cMI/AAAAAAAAK7s/s1H6aL_7W0M/s400/2007-12-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319475865082163394" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Jet from the Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071210.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKTHXn67LI/AAAAAAAAK7k/7iCZXU1AKO4/s400/2007-12-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319475864687799474" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Hinode, JAXA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Universe Nearby<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071211.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKTd2uef-I/AAAAAAAAK8s/Y0BEDplNWGQ/s400/2007-12-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476250993917922" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: 2MASS, T. H. Jarrett, J. Carpenter, & R. Hurt<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mars Rover Races to Survive<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071212.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKTd6uPsUI/AAAAAAAAK8k/xxs_yZtk4V0/s400/2007-12-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476252066689346" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, USGS, UNM, HiRise<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">T Tauri and Hind's Variable Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071213.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKTdj1NrDI/AAAAAAAAK8c/igVlJFVgpTs/s400/2007-12-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476245921901618" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Apollo 17: Shorty Crater Panorama<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071214.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 80px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKTdj8pT8I/AAAAAAAAK8U/Xe33JQ5VGpI/s400/2007-12-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476245953073090" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Apollo 17 Crew, NASA; Panorama Assembly: Mike Constantine<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mountains of Creation<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071215.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKTdJyK2LI/AAAAAAAAK8M/HiC5jcY4uZM/s400/2007-12-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476238929811634" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Lori Allen (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Holographic Principle<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071216.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKT1LUKu8I/AAAAAAAAK9U/0RbKaLZ-9gA/s400/2007-12-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476651657706434" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Image Credit & Copyright: E. Winfree, K. Fleischer, A. Barr et al. (Caltech)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Saturn's Ancient Rings<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071217.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKT1Of8iZI/AAAAAAAAK9M/gSpuvTke3IY/s400/2007-12-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476652512414098" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Unusual Silica Rich Soil Discovered on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071218.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKT1NZLfkI/AAAAAAAAK9E/owD2hItgGmA/s400/2007-12-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476652215598658" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Stars and Dust through Baade's Window<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071219.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKT03mxQII/AAAAAAAAK88/w919ChBkin8/s400/2007-12-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476646367019138" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Stephane Guisard<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Reflections on the 1970s<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071220.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKT00wjziI/AAAAAAAAK80/1JBAnx5Dyak/s400/2007-12-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476645602774562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Horizon to Horizon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071221.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUHc87ZII/AAAAAAAAK98/DIOXmSaP6ZI/s400/2007-12-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476965629715586" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071222.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 173px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUHc2YyBI/AAAAAAAAK90/Lr9tyw8AHF0/s400/2007-12-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476965602281490" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Danilo Pivato<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moon and Mars Tonight<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071223.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUHPhw55I/AAAAAAAAK9s/U0YSY0F7MMI/s400/2007-12-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476962026121106" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: John Harms<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Emission Nebula IC 1396<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071224.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUHDsy3jI/AAAAAAAAK9k/gEETux3Nlto/s400/2007-12-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476958851161650" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Kent Wood<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mars and Orion Over Monument Valley<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071225.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUHNwBhfI/AAAAAAAAK9c/SQlYwrroudI/s400/2007-12-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319476961549059570" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Trifid Pillars and Jets<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071226.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUapBS0OI/AAAAAAAAK-k/t4-ju67FRNw/s400/2007-12-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319477295286767842" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: J. Hester (Arizona St. U) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Earth at Twilight<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071227.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUaiX_3XI/AAAAAAAAK-c/uI9RtuNfnYk/s400/2007-12-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319477293502946674" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: ISS Crew, Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Lab, JSC, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Beautiful Boomerang Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071228.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 371px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUaR3u3cI/AAAAAAAAK-U/Zfn11Na_aYg/s400/2007-12-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319477289072647618" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Hubble Heritage Team, J. Biretta (STScI) et al., (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Saturn's Infrared Glow<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071229.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 370px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUaXlO8QI/AAAAAAAAK-M/Hv6UD4H-uqc/s400/2007-12-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319477290605670658" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: VIMS Team, U. Arizona, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mammatus Clouds Over Mexico<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071230.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUabKMF3I/AAAAAAAAK-E/p31-lnAZpKI/s400/2007-12-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319477291565979506" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Raymundo Aguirre<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Year of Spectacular Comets<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071231.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdKUqnf1TLI/AAAAAAAAK-s/zg4OE0K3Aow/s400/2007-12-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319477569755892914" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Bob Nanz (San Diego Astronomy Association)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2007/12/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-3573013428817060564?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-58252379359026511082009-01-05T08:55:00.004-07:002009-03-31T19:19:37.219-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>NOVEMBER 2007 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Peculiar Arp 87<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071101.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzFoQe5Nk6I/AAAAAAAAEkg/CcDBSErOijg/s400/2007-11-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129996082931930018" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Three Nebulae in Narrow Band<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071102.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzFoRu5Nk7I/AAAAAAAAEko/nB8vfw-MNko/s400/2007-11-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129996104406766514" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Michael Mayda<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Golden Comet Holmes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071103.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzFoSe5Nk8I/AAAAAAAAEkw/5o055sAB75A/s400/2007-11-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129996117291668418" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Closest Galaxy: Canis Major Dwarf<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071104.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzFoTe5Nk9I/AAAAAAAAEk4/RLdkLCX2eBw/s400/2007-11-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129996134471537618" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Illustration Credit & Copyright: R. Ibata (Strasbourg Observatory, ULP) et al., 2MASS, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Holmes Grows a Tail<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071105.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzFoUu5Nk-I/AAAAAAAAElA/_KOpw9pxrOk/s400/2007-11-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129996155946374114" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Vicent Peris and José Luis Lamadrid (astrofoto.es)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">An X Class Flare Region on the Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071106.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzFoju5Nk_I/AAAAAAAAElI/tRts-Tx1xrA/s400/2007-11-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129996413644411890" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: TRACE Project, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Sloan Great Wall: Largest Known Structure?<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071107.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzFokO5NlAI/AAAAAAAAElQ/4VjjTrFmM0Y/s400/2007-11-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129996422234346498" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: W. Schaap (U. Gorningen) et al., 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">VERITAS and Venus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071108.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzjkgGttjhI/AAAAAAAAElY/QyyZu8ppPQI/s400/2007-11-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132103015597968914" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Larry Ciupik (Adler Planetarium, VERITAS Collaboration)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Skyscape with Comet Holmes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071109.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzjkgmttjiI/AAAAAAAAElg/rfQWzwAqkAs/s400/2007-11-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132103024187903522" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Dave Kodama<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Tale of Comet Holmes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071110.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzjkhGttjjI/AAAAAAAAElo/twEKaVOxHGA/s400/2007-11-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132103032777838130" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder and (inset) Paolo Berardi<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071111.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rzjkh2ttjkI/AAAAAAAAElw/nInIHa2JTVM/s400/2007-11-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132103045662740034" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Franck Bugnet<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Cosmic Rays from Galactic Centers<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071112.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzjkiGttjlI/AAAAAAAAEl4/yyMhubbIOdo/s400/2007-11-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132103049957707346" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Illustration Credit: Pierre Auger Observatory Team<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Inner Coma of Comet Holmes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071113.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RzndSGttjmI/AAAAAAAAEmA/9EjAwadKqfc/s400/2007-11-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132376553475116642" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Gianluca Masi (The Virtual Telescope)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact Event<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071114.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rz8NmrpOVAI/AAAAAAAAEpo/r8iyO0gVuWo/s400/2007-11-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133837058427474946" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Leonid Kulik Expedition, Wikipedia<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071115.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rz8NnLpOVBI/AAAAAAAAEpw/eMZUt305XMY/s400/2007-11-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133837067017409554" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Noel Carboni, Digitized Sky Survey<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Rocket Fuel<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071116.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rz8NnbpOVCI/AAAAAAAAEp4/qT1J8vyy65A/s400/2007-11-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133837071312376866" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Dave Kodama<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Forest and Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071117.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rz8NoLpOVDI/AAAAAAAAEqA/Lu8IwpceDEk/s400/2007-11-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133837084197278770" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Vincent Jacques<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071118.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R0Srv7pOVEI/AAAAAAAAEqI/zz_9TPPErtQ/s400/2007-11-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135418315062006850" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Antonio Fernandez-Sanchez<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Aurora in the Distance<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071119.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R0SrwbpOVFI/AAAAAAAAEqQ/zVvXaLIb11c/s400/2007-11-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135418323651941458" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Lance McVay<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Earthrise from Moon-Orbiting Kaguya<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071120.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R0SrwbpOVGI/AAAAAAAAEqY/3YziF5vsCH8/s400/2007-11-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135418323651941474" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: SELENE Team, JAXA, NHK<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Expansive Comet Holmes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071121.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R0SrwrpOVHI/AAAAAAAAEqg/kL9uVLNptAE/s400/2007-11-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135418327946908786" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Pleiades and Stardust<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071122.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R0uUdLpOVNI/AAAAAAAAErQ/jp5Z0wsxTRk/s400/2007-11-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137363029008995538" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Medusa Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071123.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R0uUdrpOVOI/AAAAAAAAErY/S1c6ZFSbPIM/s400/2007-11-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137363037598930146" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Galaxies in Pegasus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071124.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R0uUd7pOVPI/AAAAAAAAErg/xyiWmRfE_7w/s400/2007-11-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137363041893897458" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">An Iridescent Cloud Over Colorado<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071125.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R0uUeLpOVQI/AAAAAAAAEro/9UD9HN-r_Kc/s400/2007-11-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137363046188864770" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: August Allen<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moon Over Pigeon Point Lighthouse<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071126.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/R0uUeLpOVRI/AAAAAAAAErw/hPyHAVK6uj8/s400/2007-11-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137363046188864786" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tyler Westcott<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Space Station Over the Ionian Sea<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071127.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdHPrNpD8MI/AAAAAAAAK1M/1rIG-kqmLYc/s400/2007-11-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319260976204476610" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: STS-118 Shuttle Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Holmes from the Hubble Space Telescope<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071128.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdHPq7aUSYI/AAAAAAAAK1E/4SU0it80mGw/s400/2007-11-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319260971310795138" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: A. Dyer (Ground based image); NASA, ESA, and H. Weaver (JHU APL) (Hubble image)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Stardust in Perseus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071129.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdHPqyOB3WI/AAAAAAAAK08/SQlmdj7SDYs/s400/2007-11-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319260968843337058" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Jeff Lunglhofer<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Aristarchus Plateau<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071130.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/SdHPq_o7c7I/AAAAAAAAK00/_uav_RzXV-o/s400/2007-11-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319260972445823922" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2007/11/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-5825237935902651108?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-74625024248265608112009-01-05T08:50:00.002-07:002009-03-26T23:59:51.620-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>OCTOBER 2007 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Small Cloud of Magellan<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071001.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCCE-UXeUI/AAAAAAAAEXw/n-6XxbJ0hBI/s400/2007-10-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120735798279764290" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071002.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCCFOUXeVI/AAAAAAAAEX4/_KTTrXct86Q/s400/2007-10-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120735802574731602" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel and Cenk E. Tezel<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Encke's Tail Ripped Off<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071003.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCCFOUXeWI/AAAAAAAAEYA/vNPt58PDCeo/s400/2007-10-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120735802574731618" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Angelos Vourlidas (NRL) et al., SECCHI / STEREO, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">50th Anniversary of Sputnik: Traveling Companion<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071004.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCCFeUXeXI/AAAAAAAAEYI/QWAxMNPAYIQ/s400/2007-10-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120735806869698930" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Photo Credit: Courtesy NSSDC, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Starburst Cluster in NGC 3603<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071005.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCCFeUXeYI/AAAAAAAAEYQ/TbNSa-fk25o/s400/2007-10-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120735806869698946" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/ Hubble Collaboration<br />Acknowledgment: J. Maiz Apellaniz (Inst. Astrofisica Andalucia) et al., & Davide de Martin (skyfactory.org)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">X-ray Stars of Orion<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071006.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCCf-UXeZI/AAAAAAAAEYY/yYEd2zVHGNI/s400/2007-10-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120736262136232338" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: E.Feigelson & K.Getman (PSU) et al., CXO, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Two Million Galaxies<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071007.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCCgOUXeaI/AAAAAAAAEYg/hq6ZhPrH7bg/s400/2007-10-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120736266431199650" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: S. Maddox (Nottingham U.) et al. APM Survey, Astrophys. Dept. Oxford U.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Galaxy NGC 474: Cosmic Blender<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071008.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCCgOUXebI/AAAAAAAAEYo/mtnJAmaywOA/s400/2007-10-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120736266431199666" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Mischa Schirmer<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Aurora, Stars, Meteor, Lake, Alaska<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071009.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCCgeUXecI/AAAAAAAAEYw/nk4A1oUeis4/s400/2007-10-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120736270726166978" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Bud Kuenzli<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Strange Trailing Side of Saturn's Iapetus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071010.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCCgeUXedI/AAAAAAAAEY4/fyr6W1OS6wo/s400/2007-10-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120736270726166994" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Bright Planets, Crescent Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071011.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCDJOUXeeI/AAAAAAAAEZA/W1yPyiDNBgs/s400/2007-10-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120736970805836258" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Jay Ouellet<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Whale and The Hockey Stick<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071012.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCDJeUXefI/AAAAAAAAEZI/JOntchMsF3Y/s400/2007-10-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120736975100803570" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Josef Poepsel, Stefan Binnewies (Capella Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Enceladus Ice Geysers<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071013.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxCDJeUXegI/AAAAAAAAEZQ/_zI4driAOso/s400/2007-10-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120736975100803586" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071014.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rxl2HeUXehI/AAAAAAAAEZY/AfmccCK-pQc/s400/2007-10-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123255921880300050" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Jupiter's Clouds from New Horizons<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071015.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rxl2H-UXeiI/AAAAAAAAEZg/TcKz1FiiZog/s400/2007-10-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123255930470234658" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">SN 2005ap: The Brightest Supernova Yet Found<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071016.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rxl2H-UXejI/AAAAAAAAEZo/QdmmMR11Jz4/s400/2007-10-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123255930470234674" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: SDSS, R. Quimby/McDonald Obs./UT-Austin<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">I Zwicky 18: The Case of the Aging Galaxy<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071017.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rxl2gOUXekI/AAAAAAAAEZw/QPxc_F0pMvk/s400/2007-10-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123256347082062402" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Aloisi (ESA & STScI)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071018.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rxl2gOUXelI/AAAAAAAAEZ4/nwI2ERc7MI0/s400/2007-10-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123256347082062418" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Brian Lula<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071019.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rxl2geUXemI/AAAAAAAAEaA/m1xEMhphisk/s400/2007-10-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123256351377029730" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Antonio Fernandez<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Milky Road<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071020.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RxmYL-UXenI/AAAAAAAAEaI/bsZ4ja2yAyQ/s400/2007-10-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123293382585055858" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Larry Landolfi<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Will the Universe End in a Big Rip?<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071021.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx60wOUXeoI/AAAAAAAAEaQ/4J8T36MaSUM/s400/2007-10-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124732166564444802" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Illustration Credit & Copyright: Lynette Cook<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Victoria Crater on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071022.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx60weUXepI/AAAAAAAAEaY/HX9u8G9fxo0/s400/2007-10-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124732170859412114" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Crescent Saturn<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071023.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx60wuUXeqI/AAAAAAAAEag/T_UHh6iFWAs/s400/2007-10-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124732175154379426" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Ring Scan<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071024.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx7oY-UXerI/AAAAAAAAEao/Rh_7bhKgfug/s400/2007-10-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124788941737130674" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Apogee Moon, Perigee Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071025.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyOL_e5NkuI/AAAAAAAAEjA/dCI7hAHxXDA/s400/2007-10-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126094723618804450" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Holmes in Outburst<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071026.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyOMAO5NkvI/AAAAAAAAEjI/9CDIA-yaRu4/s400/2007-10-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126094736503706354" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi and (inset) Alan Friedman<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Great Carina Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071027.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyOMA-5NkwI/AAAAAAAAEjQ/bjo78S3G0Ac/s400/2007-10-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126094749388608258" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler and Stephane Guisard<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Noctilucent Clouds Over Sweden<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071028.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Ryg2ue5Nk1I/AAAAAAAAEj4/yN3M2A266aY/s400/2007-10-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127408347956220754" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Telescopic View of Erupting Comet Holmes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071029.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Ryg2vu5Nk2I/AAAAAAAAEkA/I2k-MwmXJ24/s400/2007-10-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127408369431057250" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Igor Chekalin<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Comet Holmes' Coma Expands<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071030.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Ryg2v-5Nk3I/AAAAAAAAEkI/0sVpAU6em5M/s400/2007-10-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127408373726024562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Eric Allen Observatoire du Cégep de Trois-Rivières<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071031.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Ryg2xe5Nk4I/AAAAAAAAEkQ/LFnHNAS1Nms/s400/2007-10-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127408399495828354" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri (Observatoire de Paris) et al., ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2007/10/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-7462502424826560811?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-89376192541947062762009-01-05T08:45:00.002-07:002009-03-26T23:53:40.723-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>SEPTEMBER 2007 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Kalamalka Lake Eclipse<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070901.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKuJ_Fj0kI/AAAAAAAAEQI/tXVqVvA0huM/s400/2007-09-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116843613223113282" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Yuichi Takasaka<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Lunation<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070902.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKuKPFj0lI/AAAAAAAAEQQ/5QtbUu6AQm4/s400/2007-09-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116843617518080594" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: António Cidadão<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070903.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKuKPFj0mI/AAAAAAAAEQY/Dc2IeNipeVs/s400/2007-09-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116843617518080610" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Adam Block, KPNO Visitor Program, NOAO, AURA, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Path Into Victoria Crater<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070904.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKuKfFj0nI/AAAAAAAAEQg/UJGzR8ZZmzg/s400/2007-09-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116843621813047922" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA; Acknowledgement: Eduardo Tesheiner<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Aurigids from 47,000 Feet<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070905.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKuKvFj0oI/AAAAAAAAEQo/mk-PlHZQMxM/s400/2007-09-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116843626108015234" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Jeremie Vaubaillon, Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Time Tunnel<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070906.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKvpPFj0pI/AAAAAAAAEQw/T_x5vPfqSQM/s400/2007-09-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116845249605653138" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory); Additional Image Data: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">South Pole Lunar Eclipse<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070907.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKvpfFj0qI/AAAAAAAAEQ4/amH9WSuGEnU/s400/2007-09-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116845253900620450" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Robert Schwarz (South Pole Station)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Voyagers' Message in a Bottle<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070908.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKvpfFj0rI/AAAAAAAAERA/eq3WyIclNS4/s400/2007-09-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116845253900620466" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Voyager Project, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Great Basin on Saturn's Tethys<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070909.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKvpvFj0sI/AAAAAAAAERI/8Csu3aCR1DQ/s400/2007-09-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116845258195587778" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Building Galaxies in the Early Universe<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070910.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKvpvFj0tI/AAAAAAAAERQ/UzNgzpQPo58/s400/2007-09-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116845258195587794" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Pirzkal (STScI/ESA) et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Scorpius Sky Spectacular<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070911.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKwHfFj0uI/AAAAAAAAERY/--W_Cyyng4A/s400/2007-09-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116845769296696034" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Six Rainbows Across Norway<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070912.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKwHfFj0vI/AAAAAAAAERg/Oxsun-3Zz94/s400/2007-09-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116845769296696050" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Terje O. Nordvik<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 7129 and NGC 7142<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070913.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKwHvFj0wI/AAAAAAAAERo/ilBQ-HXyqKo/s400/2007-09-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116845773591663362" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Iapetus in Black and White<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070914.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKwIPFj0xI/AAAAAAAAERw/pfRuqEnI5VQ/s400/2007-09-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116845782181597970" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Iapetus: 3D Equatorial Ridge<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070915.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKwIPFj0yI/AAAAAAAAER4/dB23vooSy5Y/s400/2007-09-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116845782181597986" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA; Stereo Anaglyph: Patrick Vantuyne<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">To Fly Free in Space<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070916.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKwhfFj0zI/AAAAAAAAESA/KKH_Vhs5OJM/s400/2007-09-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116846215973294898" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: STS-41B, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Inside Victoria Crater on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070917.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKwhfFj00I/AAAAAAAAESI/EiILZcIAUXI/s400/2007-09-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116846215973294914" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Tungurahua Erupts<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070918.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKwhvFj01I/AAAAAAAAESQ/9JJBC_2crxo/s400/2007-09-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116846220268262226" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Patrick Taschler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">4,000 Kilometers Above Saturn's Iapetus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070919.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKwhvFj02I/AAAAAAAAESY/yw6w6fWgKBo/s400/2007-09-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116846220268262242" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Northern Cygnus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070920.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKwh_Fj03I/AAAAAAAAESg/coN6Nyu-R6o/s400/2007-09-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116846224563229554" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Coronet in the Southern Crown<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070921.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKw8fFj04I/AAAAAAAAESo/Ng2kdTslaHo/s400/2007-09-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116846679829762946" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: X-ray: NASA/ CXC/CfA/ J.Forbrich et al.; Infrared: NASA/ SSC/CfA/IRAC GTO Team<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years?<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070922.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKw8vFj05I/AAAAAAAAESw/2ZC8eG4QG8c/s400/2007-09-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116846684124730258" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: C. R. Scotese (U. Texas at Arlington), PALEOMAP<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Equal Night<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070923.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKw8_Fj06I/AAAAAAAAES4/mxVZTl48Tb4/s400/2007-09-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116846688419697570" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: STS-68 Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Galactic Star Forming Region in Infrared<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070924.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKw9PFj07I/AAAAAAAAETA/NNOapJc32PY/s400/2007-09-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116846692714664882" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: S. Carey (SSC/Caltech), JPL-Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Zodiacal Light and the False Dawn<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070925.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKw9fFj08I/AAAAAAAAETI/EIubf466DUA/s400/2007-09-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116846697009632194" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Saguaro Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070926.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKxgPFj09I/AAAAAAAAETQ/MKejkMLydHo/s400/2007-09-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116847294010086354" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip (Astro Meeting)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Hole in the Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070927.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKxgfFj0-I/AAAAAAAAETY/MYufpmhEyQQ/s400/2007-09-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116847298305053666" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Hole in Mars Close Up<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070928.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKxgfFj0_I/AAAAAAAAETg/_1ZKrzGWmh0/s400/2007-09-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116847298305053682" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Dawn Launch Mosaic<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070929.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKxgvFj1AI/AAAAAAAAETo/EQDKOPg4-X4/s400/2007-09-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116847302600020994" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Randy Pollock<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Milky Way Band<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070930.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwKxg_Fj1BI/AAAAAAAAETw/3QlBwYaAPRs/s400/2007-09-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116847306894988306" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: John P. Gleason, Celestial Images<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2007/09/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-8937619254194706276?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-22789286009911731072009-01-05T08:40:00.003-07:002009-03-31T00:57:18.488-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>AUGUST 2007 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Unusual Cratering on Saturn's Dione<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070801.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcsIfFj1CI/AAAAAAAAET4/oHtOP_w2qG4/s400/2007-08-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118108025825252386" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">M64: The Black Eye Galaxy<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070802.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcsIvFj1DI/AAAAAAAAEUA/E1Gt0x4HtV4/s400/2007-08-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118108030120219698" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Andrea Tamanti<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070803.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcsI_Fj1EI/AAAAAAAAEUI/hw-3kWlqN3s/s400/2007-08-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118108034415187010" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Imaging - Josch Hambsch, Processing - Karel Teuwen<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Sagittarius Triplet<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070804.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcsI_Fj1FI/AAAAAAAAEUQ/yDLXNFcEMBM/s400/2007-08-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118108034415187026" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Steve Mazlin, Jim Misti<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Dotted Dunes of Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070805.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcsJPFj1GI/AAAAAAAAEUY/FUrwjFToDuU/s400/2007-08-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118108038710154338" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Malin Space Science Systems, MOC, MGS, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070806.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwctA_Fj1HI/AAAAAAAAEUg/13lv0y-cyZU/s400/2007-08-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118108996487861362" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Josch Hambsch<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Old Faithful Below a Yellowstone Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070807.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwctBPFj1II/AAAAAAAAEUo/UcF4jLM6Vgs/s400/2007-08-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118109000782828674" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Phoenix Rises Toward Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070808.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwctBPFj1JI/AAAAAAAAEUw/PqHpF3oAinA/s400/2007-08-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118109000782828690" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit: NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Star Cluster Messier 67<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070809.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwctBfFj1KI/AAAAAAAAEU4/Io7pawFPidw/s400/2007-08-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118109005077796002" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Processing - Noel Carboni, Imaging - Greg Parker<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Star Factory Messier 17<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070810.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwctBvFj1LI/AAAAAAAAEVA/ZEFYmYgsV4I/s400/2007-08-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118109009372763314" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;"> Credit & Copyright: Ignacio de la Cueva Torregrosa<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Cosmic Tornado HH49/50<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070811.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwctgvFj1MI/AAAAAAAAEVI/R8i6-UZIoK4/s400/2007-08-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118109541948708034" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: J. Bally (Univ. of Colorado) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Raining Perseids<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070812.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rwctg_Fj1NI/AAAAAAAAEVQ/zB22soKZPDQ/s400/2007-08-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118109546243675346" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Fred Bruenjes<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Trifid Nebula in Stars and Dust<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070813.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcthPFj1OI/AAAAAAAAEVY/YOq6o4BziR0/s400/2007-08-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118109550538642658" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: R. Jay GaBany (Cosmotography.com)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Spectacular Sky Over the Grand Tetons<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070814.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcthPFj1PI/AAAAAAAAEVg/Gi-8ckDzauo/s400/2007-08-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118109550538642674" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com); Image Processing: Tony Hallas<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Mysterious Streaks Over Turkey<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070815.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcthfFj1QI/AAAAAAAAEVo/Yh9DyS10gOs/s400/2007-08-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118109554833609986" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Moonless Perseid Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070816.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rwct8vFj1RI/AAAAAAAAEVw/1JDRyAz0Q0A/s400/2007-08-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118110022985045266" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: John Chumack<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Tail of a Wonderful Star<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070817.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rwct8_Fj1SI/AAAAAAAAEV4/P3LmABtFz94/s400/2007-08-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118110027280012578" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, GALEX, C. Martin (Caltech), M. Seibert(OCIW)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">ISS Over Mont-Megantic Observatory<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070818.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rwct9fFj1TI/AAAAAAAAEWA/C9k2vL9Y1J4/s400/2007-08-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118110035869947186" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Guillaume Poulin (Astrolab du Parc du Mont-Megantic)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Sonic Boom<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070819.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rwct9fFj1UI/AAAAAAAAEWI/uKpcBrxgogA/s400/2007-08-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118110035869947202" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Ensign John Gay, USS Constellation, US Navy<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Cluster Crash Illuminates Dark Matter Conundrum<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070820.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rwct9_Fj1VI/AAAAAAAAEWQ/hrs_0DdoGbI/s400/2007-08-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118110044459881810" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: X-ray: NASA / CXC/ U. Victoria/ A. Mahdavi et al.<br />Optical/Lensing: CFHT/ U. Victoria/ A. Mahdavi et al.<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Red Dome Under the Big Dipper<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070821.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rwcuv_Fj1WI/AAAAAAAAEWY/P_XJ9e9uy_U/s400/2007-08-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118110903453341026" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: M. Colleen Gino<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Tentacles of the Tarantula Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070822.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcuwfFj1XI/AAAAAAAAEWg/rW3NAplsUWg/s400/2007-08-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118110912043275634" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: WFI, MPG/ESO 2.2-m Telescope, La Silla, ESO<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Southern Moonscape<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070823.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcuwvFj1YI/AAAAAAAAEWo/QqTzbaQUm4Q/s400/2007-08-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118110916338242946" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Wes Higgins<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Astronomer's Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070824.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rwcuw_Fj1ZI/AAAAAAAAEWw/p7WEIlNNJho/s400/2007-08-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118110920633210258" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Mikhail Abgarian, Konstantin Morozov, Yuri Goryachko (Minsk, Belarus)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Just Passing Through<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070825.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rwcuw_Fj1aI/AAAAAAAAEW4/BI-6Ho8s7Cc/s400/2007-08-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118110920633210274" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Robert Stephan<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Total Lunar Eclipse Over North Carolina<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070826.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcvLPFj1bI/AAAAAAAAEXA/IL3yKuZ7BsY/s400/2007-08-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118111371604776370" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: David Cortner<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Huge Void Implicated in Distant Universe<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070827.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcvLPFj1cI/AAAAAAAAEXI/wwPMJGXK9gU/s400/2007-08-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118111371604776386" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Drawing Credit: Bill Saxton, U. Minnesota, NRAO, AUI, NSF NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Could Hydrogen Peroxide Life Survive on Mars?<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070828.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcvLfFj1dI/AAAAAAAAEXQ/aeqLe4OlJrI/s400/2007-08-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118111375899743698" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Viking Project, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Gigantic Jets Over Oklahoma<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070829.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcvLvFj1eI/AAAAAAAAEXY/avFV-r_F3EU/s400/2007-08-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118111380194711010" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Richard Smedley<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Dark Lunar Eclipse<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070830.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcvL_Fj1fI/AAAAAAAAEXg/KvMpRfG4kec/s400/2007-08-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118111384489678322" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Stars Forming in Serpens<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070831.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RwcvePFj1gI/AAAAAAAAEXo/qsODX5YmITc/s400/2007-08-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118111698022290946" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: ESO, HAWK-1 Instrument Team<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2007/08/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-2278928600991173107?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-7450094721833112272009-01-05T08:35:00.003-07:002009-03-31T00:51:52.337-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>JULY 2007 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Steep Cliffs on Mars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070701.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDpBe5NkOI/AAAAAAAAEeg/aDYAIpBt8Sw/s400/2007-07-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125352587629793506" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: G. Neukum (FU Berlin) et al., Mars Express, DLR, ESA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Zooming in to the Pelican Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070702.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDpCO5NkPI/AAAAAAAAEeo/cnv0P2VXGcg/s400/2007-07-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125352600514695410" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Filipe Alves<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">At the Edge of Victoria Crater<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070703.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDpCe5NkQI/AAAAAAAAEew/yV7jd_auQiw/s400/2007-07-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125352604809662722" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Red, White, and Blue Sky<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070704.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDpCu5NkRI/AAAAAAAAEe4/KeLAzdpuGpg/s400/2007-07-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125352609104630034" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Chris Schur<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Night-Shining Clouds<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070705.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDpDO5NkSI/AAAAAAAAEfA/2hkWd21m7D8/s400/2007-07-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125352617694564642" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Cloud Imaging Team (LASP, Univ. Colorado), AIM project, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Bright Galaxy NGC 2903<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070706.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDph-5NkTI/AAAAAAAAEfI/mUj4kN0IBsg/s400/2007-07-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353145975542066" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: R. Jay GaBany (Cosmotography.com)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Infrared Trifid<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070707.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDpiO5NkUI/AAAAAAAAEfQ/4vAHs4qqN0Q/s400/2007-07-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353150270509378" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: J. Rho (SSC/Caltech), JPL-Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Shuttle Ferry<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070708.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDpiu5NkVI/AAAAAAAAEfY/TEzhBuiuPt0/s400/2007-07-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353158860443986" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Carla Thomas, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Most Distant Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070709.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDpi-5NkWI/AAAAAAAAEfg/S6p_omS47Ag/s400/2007-07-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353163155411298" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Enrique Luque Cervigón (The Superspace)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 4449: Close-Up of a Small Galaxy<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070710.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDpjO5NkXI/AAAAAAAAEfo/3EHrtEPE4t0/s400/2007-07-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353167450378610" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Aloisi (STScI / ESA), Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Constellations and Cloudy Skies<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070711.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDp0e5NkYI/AAAAAAAAEfw/jfMBDUq48TI/s400/2007-07-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353463803122050" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">NGC 6384: Beyond the Stars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070712.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDp0u5NkZI/AAAAAAAAEf4/yMtaZKnoluM/s400/2007-07-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353468098089362" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Manhattanhenge: A New York Sunset<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070713.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDp1e5NkaI/AAAAAAAAEgA/kHInwVfd-hA/s400/2007-07-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353480982991266" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Neil deGrasse Tyson (AMNH)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">RCW 79: Stars in a Bubble<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070714.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDp1u5NkbI/AAAAAAAAEgI/x4MR_kSpOPw/s400/2007-07-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353485277958578" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: E. Churchwell (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Aurora from Space<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070715.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDp1-5NkcI/AAAAAAAAEgQ/aLGC9E1y0gM/s400/2007-07-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353489572925890" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Don Pettit, ISS Expedition 6, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Lagoon Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070716.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqIO5NkdI/AAAAAAAAEgY/TzumVcitfro/s400/2007-07-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353803105538514" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Antonio Fernandez<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Same Color Illusion<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070717.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqIO5NkeI/AAAAAAAAEgg/h7nKszacWhM/s400/2007-07-17a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353803105538530" /> <img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqIe5NkfI/AAAAAAAAEgo/bd3bRiC1e8U/s400/2007-07-17b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353807400505842" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Edward H. Adelson, Wikipedia<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Planets over Pony Express Lake<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070718.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqIu5NkgI/AAAAAAAAEgw/bhnBn8n7ND8/s400/2007-07-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353811695473154" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Dan Bush (Missouri Skies)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070719.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqI-5NkhI/AAAAAAAAEg4/N36R5aUFI1E/s400/2007-07-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125353815990440466" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Apollo 11: East Crater Panorama<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070720.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqf-5NkiI/AAAAAAAAEhA/09Mi1ILCQmU/s400/2007-07-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354211127431714" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Apollo 11 Crew, NASA; Mosaic Assembly: Mike Constantine<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Infrared Andromeda<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070721.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqge5NkjI/AAAAAAAAEhI/qvn8rx2icYM/s400/2007-07-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354219717366322" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Pauline Barmby (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) et al., JPL, Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Flight of Helios<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070722.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqhO5NkkI/AAAAAAAAEhQ/bDJtf-GayS4/s400/2007-07-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354232602268226" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Carla Thomas, courtesy DFRC, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Verona Rupes: Tallest Known Cliff in the Solar System<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070723.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqhe5NklI/AAAAAAAAEhY/8HRHutWopo0/s400/2007-07-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354236897235538" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Voyager 2, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Spiral Galaxy M83: The Southern Pinwheel<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070724.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqh-5NkmI/AAAAAAAAEhg/aIorgYEFfsI/s400/2007-07-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354245487170146" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler and Stephane Guisard<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Global Dust Storms Threaten Mars Rovers<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070725.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqy-5NknI/AAAAAAAAEho/13FeMUL-B5o/s400/2007-07-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354537544946290" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Hot Stars in the Rosette Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070726.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqzO5NkoI/AAAAAAAAEhw/yJJf-B5PzWQ/s400/2007-07-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354541839913602" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Zoltan Balog (Univ. of Arizona / Univ. of Szeged) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Tidal Tail of NGC 3628<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070727.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqze5NkpI/AAAAAAAAEh4/BO5vp-xcZDc/s400/2007-07-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354546134880914" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Steve Mandel (Galaxy Images)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Full Moondark<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070728.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDqzu5NkqI/AAAAAAAAEiA/6W4Z-0y7ClQ/s400/2007-07-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354550429848226" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Frank Barrett<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Center of Centaurus A<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070729.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDq0O5NkrI/AAAAAAAAEiI/UlLc8QcS8vI/s400/2007-07-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354559019782834" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: E.J. Schreier (AUI) et al., HST, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Four Suns of HD 98800<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070730.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDrDu5NksI/AAAAAAAAEiQ/DbMTXm7OVEs/s400/2007-07-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354825307755202" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Illustration Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Laser Strike at the Galactic Center<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070731.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/RyDrDu5NktI/AAAAAAAAEiY/UfwjycWmvSM/s400/2007-07-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125354825307755218" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2007/07/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-745009472183311227?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378734553972366780.post-25787313060775983102009-01-05T08:30:00.003-07:002009-03-31T00:46:37.263-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>JUNE 2007 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERY</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Messier 65<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070601.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-vkOUXesI/AAAAAAAAEaw/7N-W8gDDaJY/s400/2007-06-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125007937824586434" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Volker Wendel<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">3D Full Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070602.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-vleUXetI/AAAAAAAAEa4/jA8Y0BeIkRE/s400/2007-06-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125007959299422930" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070603.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-vleUXeuI/AAAAAAAAEbA/3nrnyQG5jYg/s400/2007-06-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125007959299422946" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Pat McCracken, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">IC 4603: Reflection Nebula in Ophiuchius<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070604.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-vl-UXevI/AAAAAAAAEbI/_dTAbUSq518/s400/2007-06-04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125007967889357554" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Takayuki Yoshida<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Jet Approaching a Crescent Moon<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070605.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-vmOUXewI/AAAAAAAAEbQ/QWAhmFIyass/s400/2007-06-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125007972184324866" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Vincent Jacques<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Dust Sculptures in the Rosette Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070606.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-wXOUXexI/AAAAAAAAEbY/rO1T2Iz3els/s400/2007-06-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125008813997914898" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Ignacio de la Cueva Torregrosa<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Great Mountain Moonrise<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070607.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-wXeUXeyI/AAAAAAAAEbg/EcO3oMy5nUs/s400/2007-06-07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125008818292882210" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Markarian's Eyes<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070608.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-wXuUXezI/AAAAAAAAEbo/adk_MLQMLQc/s400/2007-06-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125008822587849522" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Globular Star Cluster M3<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070609.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-wX-UXe0I/AAAAAAAAEbw/pLGRV21CwAg/s400/2007-06-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125008826882816834" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Karel Teuwen<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070610.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-wYOUXe1I/AAAAAAAAEb4/Ju1s7rugqdA/s400/2007-06-10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125008831177784146" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: Mir 27 Crew; Copyright: CNES<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The Merope Reflection Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070611.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-w9uUXe2I/AAAAAAAAEcA/xs0ELxWzzBg/s400/2007-06-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125009475422878562" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Shuttle Plume<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070612.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-w-OUXe3I/AAAAAAAAEcI/ZUJEuLklgSo/s400/2007-06-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125009484012813170" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, Ken Thornsley<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Warped Sky: Star Trails Panorama<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070613.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-w-eUXe4I/AAAAAAAAEcQ/leZBircY0Jc/s400/2007-06-13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125009488307780482" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Peter Ward<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">vdB 152: Reflection Nebula in Cepheus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070614.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-w--UXe5I/AAAAAAAAEcY/M3Mm_Whmygs/s400/2007-06-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125009496897715090" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Giovanni Benintende<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Messier 96<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070615.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-w_OUXe6I/AAAAAAAAEcg/RhT7OaJETeY/s400/2007-06-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125009501192682402" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Adam Block (Caelum Observatory), Acknowledgement: R. Jay GaBany<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Lunar Orbiter Views Crater Copernicus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070616.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-xjOUXe7I/AAAAAAAAEco/dPgnTeGpRYE/s400/2007-06-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125010119667973042" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: NASA, U.S. Geological Survey<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Analemma over Ukraine<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070617.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-xjeUXe8I/AAAAAAAAEcw/1pSpcTtSdPI/s400/2007-06-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125010123962940354" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Vasilij Rumyantsev ( Crimean Astrophysical Obsevatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Monitoring M2-9<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070618.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-xjuUXe9I/AAAAAAAAEc4/wKMbLkDjAj4/s400/2007-06-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125010128257907666" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: R. Corradi, M. Santander-Garcia (Isaac Newton Group, IAC), Bruce Balick (U. Washington)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Eris: More Massive than Pluto<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070619.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-xj-UXe-I/AAAAAAAAEdA/R--bDH8qmbU/s400/2007-06-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125010132552874978" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Thierry Lombry<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Daylight Eclipse of Venus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070620.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-xkOUXe_I/AAAAAAAAEdI/pdN2Wf6dEHU/s400/2007-06-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125010136847842290" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Peter Heinzen<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Stars and the Solstice Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070621.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-x_OUXfAI/AAAAAAAAEdQ/IGgwcndfcGc/s400/2007-06-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125010600704310274" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Composite Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Small Worlds Ceres and Vesta<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070622.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-x_OUXfBI/AAAAAAAAEdY/v4BuH0U_M2M/s400/2007-06-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125010600704310290" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit : NASA, ESA, L.McFadden, J.Y.Li (UMCP), M.Mutchler, Z.Levay (STScI), P.Thomas (Cornell), J.Parker, E.Young (SwRI), C.Russell, B.Schmidt (UCLA)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">3D Barringer Meteorite Crater<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070623.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-x_eUXfCI/AAAAAAAAEdg/MT5YhEogaew/s400/2007-06-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125010604999277602" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip (Astro Meeting)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">All the Colors of the Sun<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070624.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-x_-UXfDI/AAAAAAAAEdo/ynj62ZOBf0Y/s400/2007-06-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125010613589212210" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Nigel Sharp (NSF), FTS, NSO, KPNO, AURA, NSF<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">The International Space Station Expands Again<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070625.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-x_-UXfEI/AAAAAAAAEdw/t9aicAr53PI/s400/2007-06-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125010613589212226" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: STS-117 Shuttle Crew, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Wisps of the Iris Nebula<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070626.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-yfeUXfFI/AAAAAAAAEd4/ow_nPN0Cfto/s400/2007-06-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125011154755091538" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Thomas V. Davis (tvdavisastropix.com)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Neon Saturn<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070627.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-yfuUXfGI/AAAAAAAAEeA/7V9czjx4Te0/s400/2007-06-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125011159050058850" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit: VIMS Team, U. Arizona, ESA, NASA<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A Visit from Atlantis<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070628.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-ygOUXfHI/AAAAAAAAEeI/zrbitd3bhRw/s400/2007-06-28.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125011167639993458" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Ron Dantowitz, Marek Kozubal, Clay Center Observatory, Dexter and Southfield Schools<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Cat's Eye Wide and Deep<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070629.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-yiOUXfII/AAAAAAAAEeQ/DFMYzA10AIU/s400/2007-06-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125011201999731842" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory)<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Jumbled Galaxy Centaurus A<br /></span><br /><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070630.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_0ddck7YLcZ0/Rx-yieUXfJI/AAAAAAAAEeY/u6Lmle0TdV4/s400/2007-06-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125011206294699154" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:140%;">Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler and Stephane Guisard<br />Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://day-in-history.blogspot.com/2007/06/nasa-apod-monthly-gallery.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Permanent Backlink to Post</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4378734553972366780-2578731306077598310?l=day-in-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Proud Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03184843313132771874noreply@blogger.com0