Transcript Mars vs. The Universe

The Best Astronomy Pictures of
2004*
Robert Nemiroff
What is APOD?
Astronomy Picture of the Day
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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 2004 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*
Earth at Night
M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth
The Big Corona
Inside the Eagle Nebula
Image Credits
• Mars: All NASA
• Top NASA: All NASA (no joke!)
• Top APOD:
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Earth at Night: DMSP Satellites
Microwave Background: WMAP, NASA
Sun: SOHO, NASA
Andromeda Galaxy: © Robert Gendler
Eagle Nebula: © AURA, NOAO, NSF
Top 42 APOD
Images of
2004*
Comet Wild 2's Nucleus from Stardust
Sol 5 Postcard from Mar
An Orion Deep Field
Galaxy Cluster Lenses Farthest Known Galaxy
Rumors of a Strange Universe
Moon and Venus over Corona Del Mar Beach
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Sedna of the Outer Solar System
A Prominent Solar Prominence from SOHO
A Berry Bowl of Martian Spherules
Massive Star Forming Region DR21 in Infrared
The Smooth Spheres of Gravity Probe B
Eyeful of Saturn
Comets Bradfield and LINEAR Rising
The Tails of Comet NEAT (Q4)
A Manhattan Sunset
The Supergalactic Wind from Starburst Galaxy M82
The Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi
Mammatus Clouds Over Mexico
Venus and the Chromosphere
Unusual Layers on Saturn's Moon Phoebe
Cassini Images Saturn's A Ring
Saturn's Rings in Natural Color
Spicules: Jets on the Sun
The Dark River to Antares
The Double Haze above Titan
Raining Perseids
Looking Out Over Mars
Supply Ship Approaches the Space Station
A Supernova in Nearby Galaxy NGC 2403
Cat's Eye
Genesis Mission's Hard Impact
Aurora Over a Communications Tower
SpaceShipOne Wins the X-Prize
Tantalizing Titan
Storm Alley on Saturn
Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy
Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars
Debris Disks Surround Distant Suns
Titan Surmised
Announcing Comet Machholz
Image Credits and Copyrights
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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
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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
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.
• See the Sky: Join the Amateur Astronomers
Association of New York!