The Best Astronomy Pictures of the Year
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The Best Astronomy Pictures of 2005-2006*
Robert Nemiroff
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What is APOD? Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Web site started at NASA in 1995• Written & edited w/ Jerry Bonnell (USRA/NASA)• Features a different astronomy image every day • Mirror sites now translate APOD into most major
languages daily• Hypertext is “best link”, leverages the full web• Archive is encyclopedic and searchable
– Need an astronomy image? Good chance APOD’s got it!
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Top Five NASA Imagesof All Time*
*Before 2005 and Yes, it’s subjective!
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STS-1: First Shuttle Launch
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A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence
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Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation
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M16: Stars from Eagle's EGGs
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Earth Rise
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Top Five APOD Imagesof all Time*
*Before 2005 andYes, it’s again subjective!
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Inside the Eagle Nebula
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The Big Corona
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M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
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Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth
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Earth at Night
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Image Credits
• Top NASA: All NASA (no joke!)
• Top APOD: – Eagle Nebula: © AURA, NOAO, NSF– Andromeda Galaxy: © Robert Gendler– Big Corona: Fred Espenak– Eclipsed Earth: Mir 27 Crew, CNES– Earth at Night: DMSP Satellites
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Just Wow Images
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V838 Mon: Echoes from the Edge
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WMAP Resolves the Universe
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Top APOD Images of
2005-2006*
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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
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Titan Landscape
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Eight Kilometers Above Titan
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Saturn's Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface
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Persistent Saturnian Auroras
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The Fox Fur Nebula
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To Fly Free in Space
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NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
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Solar Eclipse in View
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The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
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M51: Cosmic Whirlpool
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Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane
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The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared
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Particle Sizes in Saturn's Rings
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Sculpting the South Pillar
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Titan's Cryovolcano
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Tornado and Rainbow Over Kansas
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Sunset Over Gusev Crater
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The Giant Radio Lobes of Fornax A
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Ring Around Fomalhaut
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Thirteen Seconds After Impact
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A Nearby Supernova in M51
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Water Ice in a Martian Crater
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Solar System Object Larger than Pluto Discovered
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A Shuttle Back Flip at the Space Station
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The International Space Station from Orbit
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Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae from SALT
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Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus
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A Quadruple Sky Over Great Salt Lake
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Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters
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Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Localized
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A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station
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Possible Pluto Moons
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The Missing Craters of Asteroid Itokawa
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SN 1006: Supernova Remnant in X-Rays
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Infrared Helix
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Stardust Capsule Returns to Earth
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New Horizons Launches to Pluto
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The N44 Superbubble
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Wisps Surrounding the Horsehead Nebula
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An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturn's Telesto
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Unexpected Comet Pojmanski Now Visible
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Earth's Shrinking Antarctic Ice Sheet
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Super-Earths May Circle Other Stars
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Inflating the Universe
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Image Credits and Copyrightsavailable on the APOD website
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The best images from the first six years of APOD can be found here:
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Postscripts
• The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is available online at http://apod.nasa.gov/.
• The Universe: 365 Days book is available at most bookstores including the AMNH museum bookstore.