ASTRONOMY PICTURE

OF THE DAY

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Transit

MAY 8, 2003

Mercury Spotting

MAY 9, 2003

International Space Station in Transit

MAY 13, 2003

Mercury Transits the Sun

MAY 27, 2003

A Mercury Transit Sequence

APR 29, 2004

Titan’s X-Ray

MAY 21, 2004

Phases of Venus

JUN 6, 2004

Mercury Spotting

JUN 15, 2004

A Rare Annular Venusian Solar Eclipse

JUN 23, 2004

A Picturesque Venus Transit

JUN 27, 2004

Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 Warps Space

JUL 17, 2004

Transit of Venus Stereogram

OCT 13, 2006

The Hubble SWEEPS Field

NOV 8, 2006

Simulated Transit of Mercury

NOV 10, 2006

Mercury and the Chromosphere

NOV 14, 2006

Mercury’s Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun

NOV 17, 2006

Hand Drawn Transit

NOV 25, 2006

3D Mercury Transit

MAR 3, 2007

Lunar Transit from STEREO

SEP 3, 2008

31 Million Miles from Planet Earth

FEB 6, 2009

Space Station in the Moon

MAR 19, 2009

Saturn: Moons in Transit

SEP 3, 2009

Despina, Moon of Neptune

JAN 5, 2011

Eclipsing the Sun

OCT 16, 2011

A Picturesque Venus Transit

MAY 27, 2012

Mercury Spotting

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 11, 2012

A Venus Transit Music Video from SDO

JUN 13, 2012

A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea

JUN 20, 2012

Venus Transits the Midnight Sun

NOV 28, 2012

Jupiter and Io

FEB 15, 2013

Shadows Across Jupiter

AUG 20, 2013

Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun

JAN 16, 2014

Despina, Moon of Neptune

AUG 24, 2014

Mercury’s Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun

SEP 12, 2015

ISS Double Transit

DEC 5, 2015

Kepler Orrery IV

MAR 11, 2016

Lunar Shadow Transit

APR 15, 2016

Mercury and Crescent Moon Set

APR 16, 2016

Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System

MAY 4, 2016

A Mercury Transit Sequence

MAY 7, 2016

Three Worlds for TRAPPIST-1

MAY 8, 2016

Mercury’s Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun

MAY 11, 2016

A Mercury Transit Music Video from SDO

MAY 12, 2016

A Transit of Mercury

MAY 13, 2016

ISS and Mercury Too

MAY 20, 2016

3D Mercury Transit

FEB 23, 2017

Seven Worlds for TRAPPIST-1

MAR 25, 2017

Ganymede’s Shadow

SEP 14, 2019

Little Planet to Exoplanets

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

NOV 13, 2019

Mercury in Silhouette

NOV 14, 2019

Mercury and the Quiet Sun

DEC 2, 2019

Mercury Crosses a Quiet Sun

SEP 23, 2020

ISS Transits Mars

OCT 7, 2022

In Ganymede’s Shadow