Astronomy Picture Of The Day
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Examining objects and phenomena in space such as nebulae, galaxies and comets is Astronomy. It’s important science, but for many people an enjoyable hobby. That’s why when a web site or magazine offers an astronomy picture of the day it’s likely to garner a great deal of attention. There are so many things to see, that browsing such images will never become boring.
The first place to look for and astronomy picture of the day is NASA’s website. There’s a new image there every day. The multimedia section shows both images and videos. This could be used to create your own image site. Saturn’s moon Enceladus was featured on November 5, 2008. The photo was taken by a passing spacecraft. It gets down to details the size of the bus. The ice on this moon reflects nearly 100% of all the light that hits it. Talk about bright. The plan is that Cassini will take more images of this moon later in its mission.
NASA’s images of the day go all the way back to June 16, 1995. It was a what if image of the Earth posing as a neutron star. The image is a computer generation. The most interesting feature is that the constellation Orion is visible twice. Even light from behind a neutron star is visible because the dense star bends the light all the way around it. This causes some double vision.
NASA’s COBY satellite took a very interesting image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy on September 8, 1995. This area is normally invisible because of the dust obscuring it. But COBE’s infrared imaging captured this amazing image.
The astronomy picture of the day was the same on January 1, 2000 and January 1, 2001. It’s due to the fact that many people think of the year 2000 as the first day of the third millennium. However the third millennium actually began on January 1, 2001. Instead of arguing NASA used both dates. the picture now online at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010101.html is an indication of the universe as it is progressed in the mind of man.
There are countless days each with their own astronomy picture of the day. Go to NASA’s website for more.
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