Astronomy Picture Of The Day – Just Like An Apple A Day

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The study of space objects such as planets, galaxies and stars is Astronomy. Some people do it for a living, others just to pass the time. So people tend to flock to an astronomy picture of the day. 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. It also has a multimedia center with video and images. This could be an excellent source for images and videos for your own daily updated site. On November 5, 2008, NASA’s picture of the day was a close view of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. The space probe Cassini took this image. It gets down to details the size of the bus. the ice on this moon is pretty unique it reflects 99% of the light that strikes 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. That image was of Earth as if it had the density of a neutron star. The image is a computer

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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 distortion causes double images of some objects. NASA’s COBY satellite took a very interesting image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy on September 8, 1995. This image would normally not be visible because the dust in the galaxy obscures it in the visible spectrum. 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. In reality January 1, 2001 was the beginning of millennium #3. 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. NASA has a lot more days with their own astronomy picture of the day. Go to NASA’s website for more from the Nasa Picture of the Day Archive.

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