Cool Astronomy Picture Of The Day

Astronomy is a study of outer space.  It’s important science, but for many people an enjoyable hobby.  So people tend to flock to an astronomy picture of the day.  They’re all over the place.

The first place to look for and astronomy picture of the day is NASA’s website.  Their web site, nasa.gov, presents a new photo every day.  There’s also another section that shows videos and images.  This could be used to create your own image site.  November 5, 2008 showed a close view of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.  It was taken by the Cassini space craft as it passed about 1,700 kilometers from the surface.  The image is so detailed that features about the size of a bus are viewable.  the ice on this moon is pretty unique it reflects 99% of the light that strikes it.  Wear sunglasses.  Cassini is scheduled for more flybys during its mission.

June 16, 1995 the first astronomy photo of the day NASA has online.  It was a representation of the earth as if it were as dense as a neutron star. The image is a computer generation.  It shows Orion visible twice.  That’s because a neutron star is dense enough to bend light from behind it to the front of 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.  Due to space dust this would normally not be visible to the naked eye or to a telescope.  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.  That’s because most people believe the year 2000 was the first year of the new millennium.  But in reality the new millennium started on January 1, 2001.  NASA decided to just go with both.  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. 

It would be very hard to see each and every astronomy picture of the day.  Go to NASA’s website for more.

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