1. APOD, The Universe, & NASA’s Best Images Robert Nemiroff

2. 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!

3. Top 16 APOD Images of 2003*

4. Abell 1689 Warps Space

5. Comet NEAT Approaches the Sun

6. A New Constellation Takes Hold

7. V838 Light Echo: The Movie

8. The 2MASS Galaxy Sky

9. Dumbbell Nebula Close-Up from Hubble

10. Rollout of a Soyuz TMA-2 Aboard an R7 Rocket

11. SIRTF Streak

12. A Chicago Meteorite Fall

13. Zooming in on the First Stars

14. Launch of the Spirit Rover Toward Mars

15. The Colorful Horsehead Nebula

16. Big Mars from Hubble

17. The Andromeda Deep Field

18. Large Sunspot Groups 10484 and 10486

19. WMAP Resolves the Universe

20. 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

21. Intermission Just a few cool images from Mars

22. A Face On Mars

23. Close-up of the Face on Mars

24. Slightly Above Mars Pathfinder

25. Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars

26. Top Five NASA Images of all Time* *Yes, it’s subjective!

27. STS-1: First Shuttle Launch

28. Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation

29. A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence

30. M16: Stars from Eagle's EGGs

31. Earth Rise

32. Top Five APOD Images of all Time*

33. Earth at Night

34. M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

35. Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth

36. The Big Corona

37. Inside the Eagle Nebula

38. 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

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40. 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!