ASTRONOMY PICTURE

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Sun

APR 18, 2003

Double Eruptive Prominences

MAY 13, 2003

Mercury Transits the Sun

MAY 27, 2003

A Mercury Transit Sequence

JUN 23, 2003

KamLAND Verifies the Sun

JUN 24, 2003

The Sun’s Surface in 3D

JUN 26, 2003

Martian Analemma

JUN 29, 2003

The Solar Spectrum

JUL 7, 2003

At the Edge of the Sun

JUL 29, 2003

Orange Sun Simmering

OCT 25, 2003

Islands in the Photosphere

OCT 29, 2003

A Powerful Solar Flare

MAR 20, 2004

Equinox + 1

MAR 21, 2004

A Green Flash from the Sun

MAR 30, 2004

A Prominent Solar Prominence from SOHO

APR 19, 2004

Comet Bradfield Passes the Sun

JUN 6, 2004

Mercury Spotting

JUN 8, 2004

A Planet Transits the Sun

JUN 9, 2004

Venus Transit at Sunrise

JUN 10, 2004

Venus at the Edge

JUN 11, 2004

Venus and the Chromosphere

JUN 20, 2004

Solstice Celebration

JUN 21, 2004

Analemma over Ancient Nemea

JUN 23, 2004

A Picturesque Venus Transit

JUN 27, 2004

Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 Warps Space

JUL 20, 2004

Space Station, Venus, Sun

JUL 25, 2004

A Solar Filament Lifts Off

JUL 26, 2004

A Large Active Region Crosses the Sun

AUG 2, 2004

Spicules: Jets on the Sun

AUG 4, 2004

Solar Arcs and Halos

SEP 14, 2004

Genesis Mission’s Hard Impact

SEP 25, 2004

The Iron Sun

OCT 10, 2004

Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet

OCT 27, 2004

Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight

NOV 3, 2004

A Time-Lapse Lunar Eclipse

DEC 6, 2004

Filaments Across the Sun

FEB 16, 2005

Sunspot Metamorphosis: From Bottom to Top

FEB 27, 2005

The Solar Spectrum

MAR 9, 2005

A Sun Halo Over Tennessee

APR 11, 2005

Clouds, Plane, Sun, Eclipse

JUL 29, 2005

ISS and Discovery Transit the Sun

AUG 14, 2005

Heating Coronal Loops

NOV 1, 2005

A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station

NOV 6, 2005

A Sunspot Up Close

NOV 9, 2005

A Solar Prominence from SOHO

NOV 26, 2005

A Stereo Sun

DEC 1, 2005

SOHO’s Uninterrupted View of the Sun

JAN 2, 2006

A Sun Pillar Over Maine

APR 16, 2006

A Solar Prominence from SOHO

APR 23, 2006

The Solar Spectrum

JUL 10, 2006

Dark Sun Sizzling

AUG 7, 2006

An Erupting Solar Prominence from SOHO

SEP 21, 2006

Sharp Silhouette

OCT 16, 2006

In the Shadow of Saturn

OCT 29, 2006

The Sun Puffs

NOV 8, 2006

Simulated Transit of Mercury

NOV 10, 2006

Mercury and the Chromosphere

DEC 4, 2006

Movie: The Active Sun

DEC 13, 2006

A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun

DEC 22, 2006

The View from Stereo Ahead

DEC 23, 2006

The Analemma and the Temple of Olympian Zeus

DEC 26, 2006

The Gegenschein

DEC 30, 2006

Martian Analemma

JAN 29, 2007

Movie: A Green Flash Over Italy

FEB 6, 2007

Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection

MAR 3, 2007

Lunar Transit from STEREO

MAR 22, 2007

Goa Silhouettes

MAR 23, 2007

Touran Sunrise

APR 20, 2007

Pantheon Earth and Moon

APR 24, 2007

The Sun in Three Dimensions

MAY 22, 2007

Orange Sun Oozing

JUN 10, 2007

Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth

JUN 21, 2007

Stars and the Solstice Sun

JUN 24, 2007

All the Colors of the Sun

JUL 9, 2007

The Most Distant Sun

SEP 27, 2007

Hole in the Sun

OCT 2, 2007

Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma

NOV 6, 2007

An X Class Flare Region on the Sun

DEC 4, 2007

Movie: Analemma Over New Jersey

DEC 10, 2007

A Jet from the Sun

DEC 22, 2007

Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky

MAY 16, 2008

Circles in the Sky

JUN 1, 2008

A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence

JUL 30, 2008

The International Space Station Transits the Sun

AUG 1, 2008

Moon Games

AUG 7, 2008

At the Sun’s Edge

AUG 8, 2008

The Crown of the Sun

SEP 22, 2008

Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice

OCT 4, 2008

A Solar Prominence Unfurls

NOV 2, 2008

Spicules: Jets on the Sun

NOV 22, 2008

From Moonrise to Sunset

DEC 20, 2008

Solstice at Newgrange

JAN 15, 2009

Suspension Bridge Solargraph

MAR 15, 2009

A Prominent Solar Prominence from SOHO

MAR 20, 2009

Sunset at the Portara

APR 5, 2009

Orange Sun Oozing

MAY 31, 2009

A Solar Prominence from SOHO

JUN 26, 2009

Solstice to Solstice Solargraph

JUL 3, 2009

Perihelion and Aphelion

JUL 5, 2009

Genesis Mission’s Hard Impact

JUL 26, 2009

The Big Corona

OCT 20, 2009

A Solar Prominence Erupts in STEREO

NOV 4, 2009

Blue Sun Bristling

NOV 14, 2009

DIA Sunrise

NOV 30, 2009

Bright Sun and Crescent Earth from the Space Station

JAN 16, 2010

New Year Sungrazer

MAR 23, 2010

Reinvigorated Sun and Prominence

APR 16, 2010

Bright Points on the Quiet Sun

APR 18, 2010

Large Eruptive Prominence Imaged by STEREO

APR 23, 2010

SDO: The Extreme Ultraviolet Sun

MAY 10, 2010

Large Eruptive Prominence Movie from SDO

MAY 22, 2010

Dark Filament of the Sun

MAY 23, 2010

Station and Shuttle Transit the Sun

JUN 9, 2010

Orange Sun Simmering

JUN 27, 2010

All the Colors of the Sun

JUN 28, 2010

A Partial Lunar Eclipse

JUL 21, 2010

The Crown of the Sun

JUL 24, 2010

Diamond Ring and Shadow Bands

AUG 6, 2010

The Not So Quiet Sun

AUG 7, 2010

Rainbow at Sunset

AUG 28, 2010

Hole in the Sun

SEP 20, 2010

Aurora Over Norway

SEP 23, 2010

Equinox and the Iron Sun

OCT 18, 2010

It Came from the Sun

NOV 2, 2010

Spicules: Jets on the Sun

DEC 15, 2010

A Huge Solar Filament Erupts

DEC 21, 2010

Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky

DEC 31, 2010

Analemma 2010

JAN 4, 2011

A Green Flash from the Sun

FEB 7, 2011

Sun 360: STEREO Captures Views of the Entire Sun

FEB 17, 2011

X-Class Flare

MAR 7, 2011

A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO

APR 10, 2011

Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet

SEP 18, 2011

A Sharp View of the Sun

SEP 25, 2011

A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun

SEP 28, 2011

Violent Sunspot Group AR 1302 Unleashes a Flare

OCT 5, 2011

Comet and CME on the Sun

OCT 16, 2011

A Picturesque Venus Transit

NOV 6, 2011

Orange Sun Oozing

NOV 12, 2011

Sunspot Castle

NOV 15, 2011

Orange Sun Scintillating

NOV 25, 2011

A Glimpse of CLIMSO

JAN 21, 2012

Days in the Sun

MAR 14, 2012

Angry Sun Erupting

MAR 15, 2012

Solar Flare in the Gamma-ray Sky

MAR 19, 2012

Sunspot Group 1429 and the Distant Sun

MAY 11, 2012

Sun vs. Super Moon

MAY 28, 2012

Contemplating the Sun

JUN 3, 2012

A Picturesque Venus Transit

JUN 5, 2012

Live: Watching for Venus to Cross the Sun

JUN 7, 2012

Venus Transit 2012

JUN 8, 2012

When Venus Rises with the Sun

JUN 9, 2012

Venus at the Edge

JUN 13, 2012

A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea

JUN 20, 2012

Venus Transits the Midnight Sun

JUN 23, 2012

Northern Green Flash

JUL 14, 2012

AR1520: Islands in the Photosphere

JUL 25, 2012

Pink Aurora Over Crater Lake

AUG 20, 2012

A Filament Across the Sun

SEP 17, 2012

A Solar Filament Erupts

SEP 23, 2012

Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice

OCT 15, 2012

Black Sun and Inverted Starfield

OCT 16, 2012

A Spiral Nebula Surrounding Star R Sculptoris

DEC 2, 2012

The Gegenschein Over Chile

JAN 15, 2013

A Solar Ballet

FEB 26, 2013

Coronal Rain on the Sun

APR 13, 2013

Sun with Solar Flare

APR 26, 2013

A Year on the Sun

MAY 16, 2013

Four X-class Flares

MAY 20, 2013

Blue Sun Bursting

JUL 13, 2013

Sunspot at Sunset

AUG 2, 2013

Tropic of Cancer

AUG 20, 2013

Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun

AUG 29, 2013

Strawberry Sun

OCT 2, 2013

All the Colors of the Sun

OCT 14, 2013

High Noon Analemma Over Azerbaijan

OCT 27, 2013

Sungrazer

OCT 28, 2013

The Great Comet of 1680 Over Rotterdam

NOV 3, 2013

A Rare Hybrid Solar Eclipse

NOV 4, 2013

Eclipse Over New York

NOV 11, 2013

An Active Sun During a Total Eclipse

NOV 27, 2013

Comet ISON Rising

DEC 21, 2013

SDO’s Multiwavelength Sun

DEC 22, 2013

Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma

JAN 8, 2014

Sunspot at Sunset

JAN 26, 2014

Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet

MAR 4, 2014

Sun and Prominence

MAR 12, 2014

The Sun Rotating

MAY 6, 2014

Orange Sun Sparking

JUN 4, 2014

A Green Flash from the Sun

JUL 11, 2014

Spotty Sunrise over Brisbane

JUL 20, 2014

A Solar Filament Erupts

AUG 24, 2014

Mercury’s Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun

OCT 7, 2014

From the Temple of the Sun to the Temple of the Moon

NOV 22, 2014

Solar Flare from a Sharper Sun

DEC 21, 2014

Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky

DEC 29, 2014

The Sun in X-rays from NuSTAR

JAN 25, 2015

A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence

FEB 10, 2015

An Extremely Long Filament on the Sun

FEB 17, 2015

Fibrils Flower on the Sun

FEB 21, 2015

45 Days in the Sun

MAR 18, 2015

Earth During a Total Eclipse of the Sun

APR 3, 2015

Sun and Moon Halo

APR 30, 2015

Across the Sun

JUN 28, 2015

All the Colors of the Sun

JUN 29, 2015

Sunspot Group AR 2339 Crosses the Sun

SEP 12, 2015

ISS Double Transit

SEP 19, 2015

A Prominence on the Sun

NOV 2, 2015

Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun

JAN 10, 2016

Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection

JAN 11, 2016

A Colorful Solar Corona over the Himalayas

MAR 6, 2016

A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO

MAR 18, 2016

The W in Cassiopeia

APR 29, 2016

Fermi’s Gamma-ray Moon

MAY 1, 2016

Contemplating the Sun

MAY 4, 2016

A Mercury Transit Sequence

MAY 8, 2016

Mercury’s Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun

MAY 11, 2016

A Mercury Transit Music Video from SDO

JUL 29, 2016

Blue Danube Analemma

JUL 31, 2016

A Huge Solar Filament Erupts

AUG 22, 2016

Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma

SEP 19, 2016

50,000 Kilometers over the Sun

SEP 26, 2016

Gaia: Here Comes the Sun

DEC 21, 2016

Traces of the Sun

FEB 19, 2017

Black Sun and Inverted Starfield

APR 11, 2017

Man, Dog, Sun

JUN 21, 2017

A Sundial that Shows Solstice

JUL 5, 2017

Aphelion Sunrise

AUG 13, 2017

Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona

AUG 20, 2017

Time-Lapse: A Total Solar Eclipse

SEP 14, 2017

Flare Well AR2673

NOV 13, 2017

Comet Machholz Approaches the Sun

JAN 1, 2018

Sun Halo over Sweden

FEB 4, 2018

Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun

APR 9, 2018

The Sun Unleashed: Monster Filament in Ultraviolet

MAY 27, 2018

Coronal Rain on the Sun

JUN 18, 2018

An Active Prominence on the Sun

AUG 15, 2018

Launch of the Parker Solar Probe

AUG 20, 2018

Active Prominences on a Quiet Sun

SEP 2, 2018

A Powerful Solar Flare

SEP 16, 2018

A Solar Filament Erupts

SEP 23, 2018

Equinox: Analemma over the Callanish Stones

SEP 26, 2018

The Sun’s Spectrum with its Missing Colors

OCT 10, 2018

Sun Dance

MAR 6, 2019

A February without Sunspots

MAY 26, 2019

A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO

JUN 24, 2019

Anticrepuscular Rays Converge Opposite the Sun

JUL 1, 2019

The Big Corona

JUL 9, 2019

Birds During a Total Solar Eclipse

JUL 15, 2019

The Space Station Crosses a Spotless Sun

AUG 5, 2019

A Total Solar Eclipse Reflected

SEP 23, 2019

Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice

OCT 21, 2019

A Mercury Transit Music Video from SDO

OCT 28, 2019

The Space Station Crosses a Spotless Sun

NOV 10, 2019

A Mercury Transit Sequence

DEC 2, 2019

Mercury Crosses a Quiet Sun

DEC 9, 2019

Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe

FEB 3, 2020

Solar Granules at Record High Resolution

FEB 11, 2020

Launch of the Solar Orbiter

AUG 2, 2020

Two Worlds, One Sun

AUG 18, 2020

TYC 8998-760-1: Multiple Planets around a Sun Like Star

NOV 2, 2020

Half Sun with Prominence

MAY 4, 2021

Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun

SEP 21, 2021

Sun Spot Hill

NOV 8, 2021

A Filament Leaps from the Sun

DEC 21, 2021

Solstice Sun and Milky Way

JAN 5, 2022

A Year of Sunrises

JAN 30, 2022

A Solar Prominence from SOHO

MAR 2, 2022

Record Prominence Imaged by Solar Orbiter

MAR 6, 2022

Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun

MAR 27, 2022

Titan Seas Reflect Sunlight

APR 11, 2022

A Space Station Crosses a Busy Sun

MAY 22, 2022

A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun

SEP 13, 2022

A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun

OCT 9, 2022

Auroras over Northern Canada

NOV 2, 2022

A Partial Eclipse of an Active Sun

NOV 6, 2022

Dark Ball in Inverted Starfield

DEC 21, 2022

Sun Halo at Sixty-three Degrees North

JAN 14, 2023

Perihelion Sun 2023

FEB 22, 2023

Our Increasingly Active Sun

MAY 16, 2023

Total Eclipse: The Big Corona

MAY 17, 2023

Sunspot with Light Bridge

JUN 11, 2023

The Sun and Its Missing Colors

JUL 11, 2023

Sunspots on an Active Sun

AUG 1, 2023

Monster Solar Prominence

OCT 25, 2023

Gone in 60 Seconds: A Green Flash Sunset

OCT 29, 2023

A Partial Lunar Eclipse

JAN 13, 2024

Circling the Sun

FEB 19, 2024

Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe

MAR 10, 2024

A Total Eclipse at the End of the World

APR 5, 2024

The Solar Corona Unwrapped

APR 7, 2024

A Total Solar Eclipse over Wyoming