The Astronomy Picture of the Day is my home page. It is always fascinating, I usually learn something, and the pictures are marvelous. Today they celebrate their 20th Birthday, so I thought I’d celebrate and show you a few of my favorite APOD pictures I’ve saved over the years. The telescope pictures of the galaxy are fascinating, but most of my 'keepers' are earthbound photos.
Of course, even “rocket scientists” can goof up. On May 8th this year they tried to show what the rotating stars would look like in the year 14000 when Vega will have replaced Polaris as our North Star. The rotating stars will look no different to us because north is north here on planet Earth.
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| 2009 June 23 Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Mars |
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| Aurora in the Lofotens |
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| Big Blue Earth |
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| Devil's Tower and the Milky Way |
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| Eclipse over Rapa Nui |
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| The Horsehead Nebula in Orion |
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| Iceland Volcano Erupts |
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| New York Hot Spot |
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| An Unusual View of London |
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| Saturn's New Rings |
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| Perth, Australia - January 2007 |
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| Pileus Iridescent Clouds |
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| The Shuttle Comes to New York |
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| Stonehenge, where else? |
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| Thunder Cell Over Montana |
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| Venus and the Moon |
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| Titan, Dione, Pandora, and Little Pan |
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| Winter in Yosemite |
The APOD link above will change from day to day, this is their anniversary
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