The Best Astronomy Pictures of the Year

The Best Astronomy Pictures of 2005-2006* Robert Nemiroff 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! Top Five NASA Images of All Time* *Before 2005 and Yes, it’s subjective! STS-1: First Shuttle Launch A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence M16: Stars from Eagle's EGGs Earth Rise Top Five APOD Images of all Time* *Before 2005 and Yes, it’s again subjective! Inside the Eagle Nebula The Big Corona M31: The Andromeda Galaxy Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth Earth at Night 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 Just Wow Images V838 Mon: Echoes from the Edge WMAP Resolves the Universe Top APOD Images of 2005-2006* Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 Titan Landscape Eight Kilometers Above Titan Saturn's Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface Persistent Saturnian Auroras The Fox Fur Nebula To Fly Free in Space NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide Solar Eclipse in View The Fairy of Eagle Nebula M51: Cosmic Whirlpool Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared Particle Sizes in Saturn's Rings Sculpting the South Pillar Titan's Cryovolcano Tornado and Rainbow Over Kansas Sunset Over Gusev Crater The Giant Radio Lobes of Fornax A Ring Around Fomalhaut Thirteen Seconds After Impact A Nearby Supernova in M51 Water Ice in a Martian Crater Solar System Object Larger than Pluto Discovered A Shuttle Back Flip at the Space Station The International Space Station from Orbit Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae from SALT Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus A Quadruple Sky Over Great Salt Lake Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Localized A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station Possible Pluto Moons The Missing Craters of Asteroid Itokawa SN 1006: Supernova Remnant in X-Rays Infrared Helix Stardust Capsule Returns to Earth New Horizons Launches to Pluto The N44 Superbubble Wisps Surrounding the Horsehead Nebula An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturn's Telesto Unexpected Comet Pojmanski Now Visible Earth's Shrinking Antarctic Ice Sheet Super-Earths May Circle Other Stars Inflating the Universe Image Credits and Copyrights available on the APOD website The best images from the first six years of APOD can be found here: 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.