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The Best Astronomy Pictures of 2004* 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 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: – – – – – 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 • • • • • • • • 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 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!