ASTRONOMY PICTURE

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Shadow

NOV 27, 2003

The Long Shadow of the Moon

AUG 3, 2004

Shadow of a Martian Robot

FEB 4, 2007

Shadow of a Martian Robot

MAR 6, 2007

Saturn from Above

JUN 3, 2007

Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to Moon

AUG 26, 2007

A Total Lunar Eclipse Over North Carolina

FEB 28, 2008

ISS: Sunlight to Shadow

MAR 1, 2008

Mauna Kea Shadow Play

JUN 29, 2008

Shadow of a Martian Robot

JAN 22, 2010

Millennium Annular Solar Eclipse

MAR 27, 2010

Hesiodus Sunrise Ray

AUG 23, 2010

A Milky Way Shadow at Loch Ard Gorge

SEP 22, 2010

Discovery Rollout Shadow

DEC 4, 2010

Sunset at the Spiral Jetty

DEC 5, 2010

Moonrise Through Mauna Kea’s Shadow

JAN 2, 2011

Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth

APR 23, 2011

Shadows at the Lunar South Pole

MAY 8, 2011

Shadow of a Martian Robot

JUL 6, 2011

Sunrise at Tycho

NOV 27, 2011

Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to the Moon

DEC 15, 2011

The Umbra of Earth

DEC 16, 2011

Red Moon Rising

MAY 19, 2012

Annular Solar Eclipse

MAY 30, 2012

Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth

DEC 4, 2012

In the Center of Saturn’s North Polar Vortex

DEC 5, 2012

Plasma Jets from Radio Galaxy Hercules A

DEC 10, 2012

Time-Lapse: A Total Solar Eclipse

JAN 4, 2013

Sunrise at Tycho

FEB 15, 2013

Shadows Across Jupiter

APR 25, 2013

Lunar Eclipses

OCT 21, 2013

Saturn from Above

NOV 13, 2013

In the Shadow of Saturn

AUG 4, 2014

Shadows and Plumes Across Enceladus

APR 14, 2015

Through the Shadow of the Moon

FEB 20, 2016

Where Your Shadow Has Company

MAR 11, 2016

Lunar Shadow Transit

SEP 25, 2016

Saturn from Above

OCT 21, 2016

Full Moon in Mountain Shadow

DEC 22, 2016

An Airplane Glory

APR 4, 2017

Plane Contrail and Sun Halo

APR 15, 2018

Space Shuttle Rising

AUG 27, 2018

Total Solar Eclipse Shadow from a Balloon

JAN 26, 2019

The Umbra of Earth

APR 11, 2019

First Horizon-Scale Image of a Black Hole

JUL 7, 2019

Crescent Saturn

DEC 29, 2020

Earth During a Total Solar Eclipse

FEB 11, 2024

Rocket Plume Shadow Points to the Moon

MAR 24, 2024

Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth

APR 23, 2024

Contrail Shadow X