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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!
Image Credits
• Mars: All NASA
• Top NASA: All NASA (no joke!)
• Top APOD: – Earth at Night: DMSP Satellites– Microwave Background: WMAP, NASA– Sun: SOHO, NASA– Andromeda Galaxy: © Robert Gendler– Eagle Nebula: © AURA, NOAO, NSF
Image Credits and Copyrights• Abell 1689 Warps Space
– ACS Team, ESA, NASA
• Comet NEAT Approaches the Sun
– Anton Spenko (Rezmon Observatory)
• A New Constellation Takes Hold
– Hugo E. Schwarz (CTIO), NOAO
• V838 Light Echo: The Movie
– H. Bond (STScI), A. Henden (USNO Flagstaff), Z. Levay (STScI), et al., ESA, NASA
• The 2MASS Galaxy Sky
– 2MASS, T. H. Jarrett, J. Carpenter, & R. Hurt
• Dumbbell Nebula Close-Up from Hubble
– C. R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt) et al., Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA), NASA
• Rollout of a Soyuz TMA-2 Aboard an R7 Rocket
– Scott Andrews, NASA
• SIRTF Streak
– Ben Cooper
• A Chicago Meteorite Fall– Ivan and Colby Navarro
• Zooming in on the First Stars– Visualization: Ralf Kaehler (ZIB) & Tom Abel (Penn.
State); Simulation: Tom Abel (Penn. State), Greg Bryan (Oxford) & Mike Norman (UCSD)
• Launch of the Spirit Rover Toward Mars – Dan Maas (Maas Digital), Ecliptic Enterprises
Corporation, Boeing, NASA • The Colorful Horsehead Nebula
– Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, J.-C. Cuillandre (CFHT), Coelum
• Big Mars from Hubble– J. Bell (Cornell U.), M. Wolff (SSI) et al., STScI,
NASA • The Andromeda Deep Field
– T. M. Brown (STScI) et al., ESA, NASA • Large Sunspot Groups 10484 and 10486
– Juan Carlos Casado • WMAP Resolves the Universe
– WMAP Science Team, NASA