Carl Sagan 1934-1996
December 31 1996: Io Rotating
December 30 1996: X-Ray Earth
December 29 1996: Dark Bok Globules in IC 2944
December 28 1996: CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule
December 27 1996: HET: The New Largest Optical Telescope
December 26 1996: Carl Sagan 1934-1996
December 25 1996: An Earth Ornament
December 24 1996: A Mirry Christmas
December 23 1996: The Hills of Ganymede
December 22 1996: 18 Miles From Deimos
December 21 1996: Sun and Winter Solstice 1996
December 20 1996: The UV SMC from UIT
December 19 1996: Comet Hale-Bopp Inbound
December 18 1996: A Sky Full Of Hydrogen
December 17 1996: Mariner's Mercury
December 16 1996: Nebula Nova Cygni Turns On
December 15 1996: Microlensing of the Einstein Cross
December 14 1996: Our Solar System from Voyager
December 13 1996: Disorder in Stephan's Quintet
December 12 1996: The Milky Way Through the Summer Triangle
December 11 1996: Starburst Ring in Galaxy NGC 1317
December 10 1996: Comet Halley's Nucleus
December 09 1996: Callisto Full Face
December 08 1996: Degas Ray Crater on Mercury
December 07 1996: Planetary Systems Now Forming in Orion
December 06 1996: Globular Cluster M3
December 05 1996: Io's Giant Volcano Pele
December 04 1996: Ice at the Lunar South Pole
December 03 1996: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
December 02 1996: Orion's Star Colours
December 01 1996: Star Trails in Northern Skies
November 30 1996: Aurora Astern
November 29 1996: Io: The Fissure King?
November 28 1996: Comet-like Clouds in the Cartwheel Galaxy
November 27 1996: Storm Clouds Over Jupiter
November 26 1996: The Radio Sky: Tuned to 408MHz
November 25 1996: A Quasar Portrait Gallery
November 24 1996: Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3
November 23 1996: Gamma Ray Bursts from the Unknown
November 22 1996: Fliers Around the Blue Snowball Nebula
November 21 1996: The Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula
November 20 1996: Europa Full Face
November 19 1996: Fractal Interstellar Dust Up-Close
November 18 1996: Unusual M82: The Cigar Galaxy
November 17 1996: A Quasar in the Gamma Ray Sky
November 16 1996: The Leonid Meteor Shower (Tonight)
November 15 1996: Searching For Solar Systems
November 14 1996: Supernova Remnant and Neutron Star
November 13 1996: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp
November 12 1996: Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14
November 11 1996: NGC 4755: A Jewel Box of Stars
November 10 1996: Columbia Launches
November 09 1996: Surveyor Hops
November 08 1996: A Solar Corona Ejection
November 07 1996: Fields of Minerals on Ganymede
November 06 1996: Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4881 in Coma
November 05 1996: The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
November 04 1996: The Martian Spring
November 03 1996: Surveyor Night Launch
November 02 1996: Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 Almost Sideways
November 01 1996: Spiral Galaxy NGC 3628 Edge On
October 31 1996: The Barren Moon
October 30 1996: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy NGC 2997
October 29 1996: Io Full Face
October 28 1996: The Weather on Neptune
October 27 1996: Io's Active Volcanoes
October 26 1996: Mir Over New Zealand
October 25 1996: A Flyby View of Ganymede
October 24 1996: Starbirth in the Lagoon Nebula
October 23 1996: The Large Cloud of Magellan (LMC)
October 22 1996: The Cracked Ice Plains of Europa
October 21 1996: Orionids Meteor Shower to Peak Tonight
October 20 1996: Surveyor Slides
October 19 1996: Lalande 21185: The Nearest Planetary System?
October 18 1996: Jupiter's Auroras
October 17 1996: Proplyds: Infant Solar Systems?
October 16 1996: SN 1006: Pieces of the Cosmic Ray Puzzle
October 15 1996: Phobos Over Mars
October 14 1996: Bright Stars, Dim Galaxy
October 13 1996: The Earth Also Rises
October 12 1996: The Water Vapor Channel
October 11 1996: The Double Nucleus of M31
October 10 1996: Triton: Neptune's Largest Moon
October 09 1996: M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
October 08 1996: ROSAT Explores the X-Ray Sky
October 07 1996: Io's Shadow
October 06 1996: A Crescent Earth At Midnight
October 05 1996: A Close-Up of the Horsehead Nebula
October 04 1996: Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
October 03 1996: Three Views of Jupiter's Io
October 02 1996: Orion's Horsehead Nebula
October 01 1996: BATSE's Biggest Gamma Ray Burst (Yet)
September 30 1996: Exploring The Universe With IUE 1978-1996
September 29 1996: The X-Ray Moon
September 28 1996: A Soyuz at Mir
September 27 1996: Welcome Home Shannon Lucid
September 26 1996: Tonight: A Total Lunar Eclipse
September 25 1996: Bright Stars and Dark Clouds
September 24 1996: Beneath Venus' Clouds
September 23 1996: Venus: Earth's Cloudy Twin
September 22 1996: The Equal Night
September 21 1996: The Ecliptic Plane
September 20 1996: Hurricane Fran's Approach
September 19 1996: The Moon and All the Crashes
September 18 1996: Stars in the Infrared Sky
September 17 1996: Comet Hale-Bopp Fades
September 16 1996: The Sun Erupts
September 15 1996: Tycho Brahe Measures the Sky
September 14 1996: Aristarchus' Unbelievable Discoveries
September 13 1996: Southwest Mercury
September 12 1996: Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
September 11 1996: In the Centre of Spiral M77
September 10 1996: M77: Spiral with a Strange Glow
September 09 1996: The High Energy Crab Nebula
September 08 1996: Volcano Euboea Fluctus On Io
September 07 1996: Two Billion Years After the Big Bang
September 06 1996: The Largest Impact Crater
September 05 1996: Watch Galaxies Form
September 04 1996: IRTF: Scanning the Infrared Skies
September 03 1996: The Pleiades Star Cluster
September 02 1996: Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night
September 01 1996: VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope
August 31 1996: Kepler Discovers How Planets Move
August 30 1996: Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope
August 29 1996: M17: The Majestic Swan Nebula
August 28 1996: NGC 5882: A Small Planetary Nebula
August 27 1996: Galileo Zooms in on Jupiter's Red Spot
August 26 1996: A Wolf-Rayet Star Bubble
August 25 1996: Luna 9: First Soft Lander
August 24 1996: Why Is QSO 1229+204 So Bright?
August 23 1996: NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster
August 22 1996: Arp 230: Two Spirals in One?
August 21 1996: A Close-Up of the Lagoon's Hourglass
August 20 1996: A Close-Up of the Lagoon Nebula
August 19 1996: Welcome to Planet Earth
August 18 1996: A Milestone Quasar
August 17 1996: A Meteorite From Mars
August 16 1996: NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery in M33
August 15 1996: Galileo Views Io Eruption
August 14 1996: Galileo Explores Europa
August 13 1996: Europa's Surface
August 12 1996: Leo Triplet Spiral Galaxy M65
August 11 1996: The Snake Nebula in Ophiuchus
August 10 1996: Unusual Spiral Galaxy M66
August 09 1996: The Perseid Meteor Shower
August 08 1996: Pictured: An Ancient Martian?
August 07 1996: Early Microscopic Life on Mars?
August 06 1996: Europa: Oceans of Life?
August 05 1996: Erupting Volcanoes on Io
August 04 1996: NGC 3393: A Super Spiral?
August 03 1996: Jupiter's Colourful Clouds
August 02 1996: Galileo, Cassini, and the Great Red Spot
August 01 1996: The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies
July 31 1996: A Violet Moon
July 30 1996: Tonight: A Blue Moon
July 29 1996: A Dust Jet From Hale-Bopp
July 28 1996: Huck Finn's New Sky View
July 27 1996: Driving to the Sun
July 26 1996: The Cygnus Loop
July 25 1996: Hale-Bopp on Schedule
July 24 1996: COMPTEL Explores The Radioactive Sky
July 23 1996: Hale-Bopp, Jupiter, and the Milky Way
July 22 1996: Utopia on Mars
July 21 1996: The Eagle Soars
July 20 1996: 20 Years Ago: Vikings on Mars
July 19 1996: Galileo's First Colour Image of Io
July 18 1996: Nebulosity in Sagittarius
July 17 1996: Looking Down on Saturn
July 16 1996: A Portrait of Saturn from Titan
July 15 1996: Keck: The Largest Optical Telescope
July 14 1996: M81 in True Colour
July 13 1996: M81: A Bulging Spiral Galaxy
July 12 1996: Ancient Cratered Plains on Ganymede
July 11 1996: Ganymede: A Really Groovy Moon
July 10 1996: Galileo Photographs Ganymede
July 09 1996: M74: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy
July 08 1996: M33: The Triangulum Galaxy
July 07 1996: Isaac Newton Explains the Solar System
July 06 1996: Edmund Halley's Greatest Discoveries
July 05 1996: The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987a
July 04 1996: The Cat's Eye Nebula (Revisited)
July 03 1996: Superbubbles in the LMC
July 02 1996: NASA's Latest Rockets: X-33
July 01 1996: Worlds of a Distant Sun: 47 Ursae Majoris b
June 30 1996: Greetings from the Pioneers
June 29 1996: The Voyagers' Message in a Bottle
June 28 1996: A Distant Galaxy in the Deep Field
June 27 1996: Voyager's Preview of Galileo at Ganymede
June 26 1996: Happy Birthday Charles Messier: M1
June 25 1996: A Star Forming Region in the LMC
June 24 1996: A View from Venus: Rift Valley
June 23 1996: Tycho's Supernova Remnant in X-ray
June 22 1996: North to the Moon's Pole
June 21 1996: A Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes
June 20 1996: Apollo Sunrise
June 19 1996: Aurora: Curtains in the Sky
June 18 1996: Seven Sisters Versus California
June 17 1996: The United States at Night
June 16 1996: APOD is One Year Old Today
June 15 1996: Walking in Space
June 14 1996: Floating Free in Space
June 13 1996: Vela Supernova Remnant in Optical
June 12 1996: Vela Supernova Remnant in X-ray
June 11 1996: Doomed Star Eta Carinae
June 10 1996: Ultraviolet Earth
June 09 1996: Blasting Off From the Moon
June 08 1996: The First Lunar Observatory
June 07 1996: Apollo 16: Exploring Plum Crater
June 06 1996: The North America Nebula
June 05 1996: Sagittarius and the Central Milky Way
June 04 1996: Impact! 65 Million Years Ago
June 03 1996: Mir Dreams
June 02 1996: 6 Up 5 Down
June 01 1996: The Iron Moon
May 31 1996: The Pulsar Powered Crab
May 30 1996: Sunshine, Earthshine at the Lunar Limb
May 29 1996: The COMPTEL Gamma-Ray Sky
May 28 1996: The Pipe Dark Nebula
May 27 1996: Aurora Crown the Earth
May 26 1996: Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System
May 25 1996: The Shuttle Launches an Inflatable Antenna
May 24 1996: In the Centre of 30 Doradus
May 23 1996: Stellar Violence in 30 Doradus
May 22 1996: Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula
May 21 1996: The Iron Sun
May 20 1996: Helios Helium
May 19 1996: Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Leo I
May 18 1996: The Sun Today
May 17 1996: Comet Hyakutake and a Solar Flare
May 16 1996: Comet Hyakutake Passes the Sun
May 15 1996: The Milky Way Near the Northern Cross
May 14 1996: Hubble's Constant And The Expanding Universe (II)
May 13 1996: Hubble's Constant And The Expanding Universe (I)
May 12 1996: Tracking Saturn's Moons
May 11 1996: Sunlight Through Saturn's Rings
May 10 1996: Henize 70: A SuperBubble In The LMC
May 09 1996: Supernova Remnant: Cooking Elements In The LMC
May 08 1996: Neptune's Great Dark Spot: Gone But Not Forgotten
May 07 1996: The Clouds of Neptune
May 06 1996: Southern Lights and Shuttle Glow
May 05 1996: Planet Near a Galaxy Core
May 04 1996: Astro-1 In Orbit
May 03 1996: The Milky Way Near the Southern Cross
May 02 1996: The Tails of Comet Hyakutake
May 01 1996: Comet Hyakutake and a Cactus
April 30 1996: Uranus' Ring System
April 29 1996: Saturn's Rings Seen Sideways
April 28 1996: The Sun Sets on Comet Hyakutake
April 27 1996: Apollo 14: Rickshaw Tracks Across the Moon
April 26 1996: A Giant Globular Cluster in M31
April 25 1996: In the Centre of the Whirlpool
April 24 1996: Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Galaxy Images
April 23 1996: Comet Hyakutake on a Starry Night
April 22 1996: At the Edge of the Helix
April 21 1996: A Supernova in the Whirpool
April 20 1996: Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation
April 19 1996: The Virgo Cluster: Hot Plasma and Dark Matter
April 18 1996: Hyakutake, Venus, Orion, and Pond
April 17 1996: NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
April 16 1996: Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula
April 15 1996: NASA Mission to MAP the Universe
April 14 1996: The Rotating Jets of Comet Hyakutake
April 13 1996: The Compton Observatory Turns Five
April 12 1996: Man Enters Space
April 11 1996: Unexpected X-rays from Comet Hyakutake
April 10 1996: Comet Hyakutake and a Tree
April 09 1996: A Spiral Galaxy Gallery
April 08 1996: Uranus's Moon Oberon: Impact World
April 07 1996: Uranus's Moon Umbriel: A Mysterious Dark World
April 06 1996: Andromeda Nebula: Var!
April 05 1996: The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies
April 04 1996: The Keyhole Nebula Near Eta Carinae
April 03 1996: A Lucky Lunar Eclipse
April 02 1996: Atlantis Approaches Mir
April 01 1996: Hyakutake, Big Dipper, and Observatory Dome
March 31 1996: Comet Hyakutake Finder Chart for Early April
March 30 1996: An Extreme UltraViolet View of the Comet
March 29 1996: The Colours of Comet Hyakutake
March 28 1996: Near the Nucleus of Hyakutake
March 27 1996: How Much is That Comet in the Window?
March 26 1996: What are Comet Tails Made Of?
March 25 1996: Comet Hyakutake Passes the Earth
March 24 1996: Comet Hyakutake's Closest Approach
March 23 1996: Comet Hyakutake's Past and Future
March 22 1996: Where to See Comet Hyakutake
March 21 1996: Near Comet Hyakutake's Nucleus
March 20 1996: NGC 1977: Blue Reflection Nebula in Orion
March 19 1996: The Ion Tail of Comet Hyakutake
March 18 1996: Saturn with Moons Tethys and Dione
March 17 1996: Saturn's Cloud Tops
March 16 1996: Spiral Galaxy M90
March 15 1996: The McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory
March 14 1996: Comet Hyakutake's Orbit
March 13 1996: Here Comes Comet Hyakutake
March 12 1996: The Colourful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi
March 11 1996: Hubble Telescope Maps Pluto
March 10 1996: Mir is 10
March 09 1996: Arecibo: The Largest Telescope
March 08 1996: The 76 Meter Lovell Radio Telescope
March 07 1996: Rampaging Fronts of the Veil Nebula
March 06 1996: Jets From SS433
March 05 1996: A Black Hole in M87's Centre?
March 04 1996: Uranus' Largest Moon: Titania
March 03 1996: Uranus' Moon Ariel: Valley World
March 02 1996: Von Braun's Wheel
March 01 1996: A Mysterious Cone Nebula
February 29 1996: Julius Caesar and Leap Days
February 28 1996: Explosions Discovered Near Galactic Centre
February 27 1996: X-ray Moon and X-ray Star
February 26 1996: Fireball!
February 25 1996: A High Energy Fleet
February 24 1996: Tanks for the Lift
February 23 1996: Apollo 15: Driving on the Moon
February 22 1996: Apollo 15's Home on the Moon
February 21 1996: Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
February 20 1996: ASCA X-Ray Observatory
February 19 1996: Periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle
February 18 1996: Abell 3627 in the Great Attractor
February 17 1996: Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe
February 16 1996: The Early Universe
February 15 1996: NEAR to an Asteroid
February 14 1996: NGC 2237: The Rosette Nebula
February 13 1996: 7,000 Stars And The Milky Way
February 12 1996: Pluto Not Yet Explored
February 11 1996: Sputnik: The Traveling Companion
February 10 1996: The First Explorer
February 09 1996: The Eye of an Hourglass Nebula
February 08 1996: Hyakutake: The Great Comet of 1996?
February 07 1996: If You Could Stand on Mars
February 06 1996: COBE Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known
February 05 1996: COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
February 04 1996: The Closest Galaxy: The Sagittarius Dwarf
February 03 1996: A Huge Impact Crater on Mars
February 02 1996: A MACHO View of Galactic Dark Matter
February 01 1996: Lensing through Baade's Window
January 31 1996: Planets Around Sun-Like Stars
January 30 1996: 70 Virginis b: A New Water Planet?
January 29 1996: Searchlight Beams from the Egg Nebula
January 28 1996: Orbiting Repairmen
January 27 1996: Open Cluster M8 in the Lagoon
January 26 1996: Quadrantids: Meteors in Perspective
January 25 1996: Catching Falling Stardust
January 24 1996: The Deep Field
January 23 1996: Beneath Jupiter's Clouds
January 22 1996: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
January 21 1996: Mercury's Faults
January 20 1996: Mercury's Caloris Basin
January 19 1996: The Dusty Disk of Beta Pic
January 18 1996: MyCn18: An Hourglass Nebula
January 17 1996: NGC 7027: A Dying Star's Nebula
January 16 1996: Wild Duck Open Cluster M11
January 15 1996: The Dawn of the Clusters
January 14 1996: A Distant Cluster of Galaxies
January 13 1996: Lunokhod 1: Moon Robot
January 12 1996: Mare Orientale
January 11 1996: Lasers in Eta Carinae
January 10 1996: The Cepheids of M100
January 09 1996: M100 and the Expanding Universe
January 08 1996: Local Group Galaxy NGC 205
January 07 1996: Mercury Astronauts and a Redstone
January 06 1996: Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy M32
January 05 1996: The Toby Jug Nebula
January 04 1996: Symbiotic Star System R Aquarii
January 03 1996: The X-ray Timing Explorer
January 02 1996: The X-Ray Sky
January 01 1996: Shuttle Engine Blast
December 31 1996: Io Rotating
December 30 1996: X-Ray Earth
December 29 1996: Dark Bok Globules in IC 2944
December 28 1996: CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule
December 27 1996: HET: The New Largest Optical Telescope
December 26 1996: Carl Sagan 1934-1996
December 25 1996: An Earth Ornament
December 24 1996: A Mirry Christmas
December 23 1996: The Hills of Ganymede
December 22 1996: 18 Miles From Deimos
December 21 1996: Sun and Winter Solstice 1996
December 20 1996: The UV SMC from UIT
December 19 1996: Comet Hale-Bopp Inbound
December 18 1996: A Sky Full Of Hydrogen
December 17 1996: Mariner's Mercury
December 16 1996: Nebula Nova Cygni Turns On
December 15 1996: Microlensing of the Einstein Cross
December 14 1996: Our Solar System from Voyager
December 13 1996: Disorder in Stephan's Quintet
December 12 1996: The Milky Way Through the Summer Triangle
December 11 1996: Starburst Ring in Galaxy NGC 1317
December 10 1996: Comet Halley's Nucleus
December 09 1996: Callisto Full Face
December 08 1996: Degas Ray Crater on Mercury
December 07 1996: Planetary Systems Now Forming in Orion
December 06 1996: Globular Cluster M3
December 05 1996: Io's Giant Volcano Pele
December 04 1996: Ice at the Lunar South Pole
December 03 1996: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
December 02 1996: Orion's Star Colours
December 01 1996: Star Trails in Northern Skies
November 30 1996: Aurora Astern
November 29 1996: Io: The Fissure King?
November 28 1996: Comet-like Clouds in the Cartwheel Galaxy
November 27 1996: Storm Clouds Over Jupiter
November 26 1996: The Radio Sky: Tuned to 408MHz
November 25 1996: A Quasar Portrait Gallery
November 24 1996: Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3
November 23 1996: Gamma Ray Bursts from the Unknown
November 22 1996: Fliers Around the Blue Snowball Nebula
November 21 1996: The Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula
November 20 1996: Europa Full Face
November 19 1996: Fractal Interstellar Dust Up-Close
November 18 1996: Unusual M82: The Cigar Galaxy
November 17 1996: A Quasar in the Gamma Ray Sky
November 16 1996: The Leonid Meteor Shower (Tonight)
November 15 1996: Searching For Solar Systems
November 14 1996: Supernova Remnant and Neutron Star
November 13 1996: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp
November 12 1996: Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14
November 11 1996: NGC 4755: A Jewel Box of Stars
November 10 1996: Columbia Launches
November 09 1996: Surveyor Hops
November 08 1996: A Solar Corona Ejection
November 07 1996: Fields of Minerals on Ganymede
November 06 1996: Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4881 in Coma
November 05 1996: The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
November 04 1996: The Martian Spring
November 03 1996: Surveyor Night Launch
November 02 1996: Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 Almost Sideways
November 01 1996: Spiral Galaxy NGC 3628 Edge On
October 31 1996: The Barren Moon
October 30 1996: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy NGC 2997
October 29 1996: Io Full Face
October 28 1996: The Weather on Neptune
October 27 1996: Io's Active Volcanoes
October 26 1996: Mir Over New Zealand
October 25 1996: A Flyby View of Ganymede
October 24 1996: Starbirth in the Lagoon Nebula
October 23 1996: The Large Cloud of Magellan (LMC)
October 22 1996: The Cracked Ice Plains of Europa
October 21 1996: Orionids Meteor Shower to Peak Tonight
October 20 1996: Surveyor Slides
October 19 1996: Lalande 21185: The Nearest Planetary System?
October 18 1996: Jupiter's Auroras
October 17 1996: Proplyds: Infant Solar Systems?
October 16 1996: SN 1006: Pieces of the Cosmic Ray Puzzle
October 15 1996: Phobos Over Mars
October 14 1996: Bright Stars, Dim Galaxy
October 13 1996: The Earth Also Rises
October 12 1996: The Water Vapor Channel
October 11 1996: The Double Nucleus of M31
October 10 1996: Triton: Neptune's Largest Moon
October 09 1996: M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
October 08 1996: ROSAT Explores the X-Ray Sky
October 07 1996: Io's Shadow
October 06 1996: A Crescent Earth At Midnight
October 05 1996: A Close-Up of the Horsehead Nebula
October 04 1996: Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
October 03 1996: Three Views of Jupiter's Io
October 02 1996: Orion's Horsehead Nebula
October 01 1996: BATSE's Biggest Gamma Ray Burst (Yet)
September 30 1996: Exploring The Universe With IUE 1978-1996
September 29 1996: The X-Ray Moon
September 28 1996: A Soyuz at Mir
September 27 1996: Welcome Home Shannon Lucid
September 26 1996: Tonight: A Total Lunar Eclipse
September 25 1996: Bright Stars and Dark Clouds
September 24 1996: Beneath Venus' Clouds
September 23 1996: Venus: Earth's Cloudy Twin
September 22 1996: The Equal Night
September 21 1996: The Ecliptic Plane
September 20 1996: Hurricane Fran's Approach
September 19 1996: The Moon and All the Crashes
September 18 1996: Stars in the Infrared Sky
September 17 1996: Comet Hale-Bopp Fades
September 16 1996: The Sun Erupts
September 15 1996: Tycho Brahe Measures the Sky
September 14 1996: Aristarchus' Unbelievable Discoveries
September 13 1996: Southwest Mercury
September 12 1996: Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
September 11 1996: In the Centre of Spiral M77
September 10 1996: M77: Spiral with a Strange Glow
September 09 1996: The High Energy Crab Nebula
September 08 1996: Volcano Euboea Fluctus On Io
September 07 1996: Two Billion Years After the Big Bang
September 06 1996: The Largest Impact Crater
September 05 1996: Watch Galaxies Form
September 04 1996: IRTF: Scanning the Infrared Skies
September 03 1996: The Pleiades Star Cluster
September 02 1996: Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night
September 01 1996: VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope
August 31 1996: Kepler Discovers How Planets Move
August 30 1996: Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope
August 29 1996: M17: The Majestic Swan Nebula
August 28 1996: NGC 5882: A Small Planetary Nebula
August 27 1996: Galileo Zooms in on Jupiter's Red Spot
August 26 1996: A Wolf-Rayet Star Bubble
August 25 1996: Luna 9: First Soft Lander
August 24 1996: Why Is QSO 1229+204 So Bright?
August 23 1996: NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster
August 22 1996: Arp 230: Two Spirals in One?
August 21 1996: A Close-Up of the Lagoon's Hourglass
August 20 1996: A Close-Up of the Lagoon Nebula
August 19 1996: Welcome to Planet Earth
August 18 1996: A Milestone Quasar
August 17 1996: A Meteorite From Mars
August 16 1996: NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery in M33
August 15 1996: Galileo Views Io Eruption
August 14 1996: Galileo Explores Europa
August 13 1996: Europa's Surface
August 12 1996: Leo Triplet Spiral Galaxy M65
August 11 1996: The Snake Nebula in Ophiuchus
August 10 1996: Unusual Spiral Galaxy M66
August 09 1996: The Perseid Meteor Shower
August 08 1996: Pictured: An Ancient Martian?
August 07 1996: Early Microscopic Life on Mars?
August 06 1996: Europa: Oceans of Life?
August 05 1996: Erupting Volcanoes on Io
August 04 1996: NGC 3393: A Super Spiral?
August 03 1996: Jupiter's Colourful Clouds
August 02 1996: Galileo, Cassini, and the Great Red Spot
August 01 1996: The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies
July 31 1996: A Violet Moon
July 30 1996: Tonight: A Blue Moon
July 29 1996: A Dust Jet From Hale-Bopp
July 28 1996: Huck Finn's New Sky View
July 27 1996: Driving to the Sun
July 26 1996: The Cygnus Loop
July 25 1996: Hale-Bopp on Schedule
July 24 1996: COMPTEL Explores The Radioactive Sky
July 23 1996: Hale-Bopp, Jupiter, and the Milky Way
July 22 1996: Utopia on Mars
July 21 1996: The Eagle Soars
July 20 1996: 20 Years Ago: Vikings on Mars
July 19 1996: Galileo's First Colour Image of Io
July 18 1996: Nebulosity in Sagittarius
July 17 1996: Looking Down on Saturn
July 16 1996: A Portrait of Saturn from Titan
July 15 1996: Keck: The Largest Optical Telescope
July 14 1996: M81 in True Colour
July 13 1996: M81: A Bulging Spiral Galaxy
July 12 1996: Ancient Cratered Plains on Ganymede
July 11 1996: Ganymede: A Really Groovy Moon
July 10 1996: Galileo Photographs Ganymede
July 09 1996: M74: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy
July 08 1996: M33: The Triangulum Galaxy
July 07 1996: Isaac Newton Explains the Solar System
July 06 1996: Edmund Halley's Greatest Discoveries
July 05 1996: The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987a
July 04 1996: The Cat's Eye Nebula (Revisited)
July 03 1996: Superbubbles in the LMC
July 02 1996: NASA's Latest Rockets: X-33
July 01 1996: Worlds of a Distant Sun: 47 Ursae Majoris b
June 30 1996: Greetings from the Pioneers
June 29 1996: The Voyagers' Message in a Bottle
June 28 1996: A Distant Galaxy in the Deep Field
June 27 1996: Voyager's Preview of Galileo at Ganymede
June 26 1996: Happy Birthday Charles Messier: M1
June 25 1996: A Star Forming Region in the LMC
June 24 1996: A View from Venus: Rift Valley
June 23 1996: Tycho's Supernova Remnant in X-ray
June 22 1996: North to the Moon's Pole
June 21 1996: A Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes
June 20 1996: Apollo Sunrise
June 19 1996: Aurora: Curtains in the Sky
June 18 1996: Seven Sisters Versus California
June 17 1996: The United States at Night
June 16 1996: APOD is One Year Old Today
June 15 1996: Walking in Space
June 14 1996: Floating Free in Space
June 13 1996: Vela Supernova Remnant in Optical
June 12 1996: Vela Supernova Remnant in X-ray
June 11 1996: Doomed Star Eta Carinae
June 10 1996: Ultraviolet Earth
June 09 1996: Blasting Off From the Moon
June 08 1996: The First Lunar Observatory
June 07 1996: Apollo 16: Exploring Plum Crater
June 06 1996: The North America Nebula
June 05 1996: Sagittarius and the Central Milky Way
June 04 1996: Impact! 65 Million Years Ago
June 03 1996: Mir Dreams
June 02 1996: 6 Up 5 Down
June 01 1996: The Iron Moon
May 31 1996: The Pulsar Powered Crab
May 30 1996: Sunshine, Earthshine at the Lunar Limb
May 29 1996: The COMPTEL Gamma-Ray Sky
May 28 1996: The Pipe Dark Nebula
May 27 1996: Aurora Crown the Earth
May 26 1996: Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System
May 25 1996: The Shuttle Launches an Inflatable Antenna
May 24 1996: In the Centre of 30 Doradus
May 23 1996: Stellar Violence in 30 Doradus
May 22 1996: Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula
May 21 1996: The Iron Sun
May 20 1996: Helios Helium
May 19 1996: Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Leo I
May 18 1996: The Sun Today
May 17 1996: Comet Hyakutake and a Solar Flare
May 16 1996: Comet Hyakutake Passes the Sun
May 15 1996: The Milky Way Near the Northern Cross
May 14 1996: Hubble's Constant And The Expanding Universe (II)
May 13 1996: Hubble's Constant And The Expanding Universe (I)
May 12 1996: Tracking Saturn's Moons
May 11 1996: Sunlight Through Saturn's Rings
May 10 1996: Henize 70: A SuperBubble In The LMC
May 09 1996: Supernova Remnant: Cooking Elements In The LMC
May 08 1996: Neptune's Great Dark Spot: Gone But Not Forgotten
May 07 1996: The Clouds of Neptune
May 06 1996: Southern Lights and Shuttle Glow
May 05 1996: Planet Near a Galaxy Core
May 04 1996: Astro-1 In Orbit
May 03 1996: The Milky Way Near the Southern Cross
May 02 1996: The Tails of Comet Hyakutake
May 01 1996: Comet Hyakutake and a Cactus
April 30 1996: Uranus' Ring System
April 29 1996: Saturn's Rings Seen Sideways
April 28 1996: The Sun Sets on Comet Hyakutake
April 27 1996: Apollo 14: Rickshaw Tracks Across the Moon
April 26 1996: A Giant Globular Cluster in M31
April 25 1996: In the Centre of the Whirlpool
April 24 1996: Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Galaxy Images
April 23 1996: Comet Hyakutake on a Starry Night
April 22 1996: At the Edge of the Helix
April 21 1996: A Supernova in the Whirpool
April 20 1996: Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation
April 19 1996: The Virgo Cluster: Hot Plasma and Dark Matter
April 18 1996: Hyakutake, Venus, Orion, and Pond
April 17 1996: NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
April 16 1996: Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula
April 15 1996: NASA Mission to MAP the Universe
April 14 1996: The Rotating Jets of Comet Hyakutake
April 13 1996: The Compton Observatory Turns Five
April 12 1996: Man Enters Space
April 11 1996: Unexpected X-rays from Comet Hyakutake
April 10 1996: Comet Hyakutake and a Tree
April 09 1996: A Spiral Galaxy Gallery
April 08 1996: Uranus's Moon Oberon: Impact World
April 07 1996: Uranus's Moon Umbriel: A Mysterious Dark World
April 06 1996: Andromeda Nebula: Var!
April 05 1996: The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies
April 04 1996: The Keyhole Nebula Near Eta Carinae
April 03 1996: A Lucky Lunar Eclipse
April 02 1996: Atlantis Approaches Mir
April 01 1996: Hyakutake, Big Dipper, and Observatory Dome
March 31 1996: Comet Hyakutake Finder Chart for Early April
March 30 1996: An Extreme UltraViolet View of the Comet
March 29 1996: The Colours of Comet Hyakutake
March 28 1996: Near the Nucleus of Hyakutake
March 27 1996: How Much is That Comet in the Window?
March 26 1996: What are Comet Tails Made Of?
March 25 1996: Comet Hyakutake Passes the Earth
March 24 1996: Comet Hyakutake's Closest Approach
March 23 1996: Comet Hyakutake's Past and Future
March 22 1996: Where to See Comet Hyakutake
March 21 1996: Near Comet Hyakutake's Nucleus
March 20 1996: NGC 1977: Blue Reflection Nebula in Orion
March 19 1996: The Ion Tail of Comet Hyakutake
March 18 1996: Saturn with Moons Tethys and Dione
March 17 1996: Saturn's Cloud Tops
March 16 1996: Spiral Galaxy M90
March 15 1996: The McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory
March 14 1996: Comet Hyakutake's Orbit
March 13 1996: Here Comes Comet Hyakutake
March 12 1996: The Colourful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi
March 11 1996: Hubble Telescope Maps Pluto
March 10 1996: Mir is 10
March 09 1996: Arecibo: The Largest Telescope
March 08 1996: The 76 Meter Lovell Radio Telescope
March 07 1996: Rampaging Fronts of the Veil Nebula
March 06 1996: Jets From SS433
March 05 1996: A Black Hole in M87's Centre?
March 04 1996: Uranus' Largest Moon: Titania
March 03 1996: Uranus' Moon Ariel: Valley World
March 02 1996: Von Braun's Wheel
March 01 1996: A Mysterious Cone Nebula
February 29 1996: Julius Caesar and Leap Days
February 28 1996: Explosions Discovered Near Galactic Centre
February 27 1996: X-ray Moon and X-ray Star
February 26 1996: Fireball!
February 25 1996: A High Energy Fleet
February 24 1996: Tanks for the Lift
February 23 1996: Apollo 15: Driving on the Moon
February 22 1996: Apollo 15's Home on the Moon
February 21 1996: Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
February 20 1996: ASCA X-Ray Observatory
February 19 1996: Periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle
February 18 1996: Abell 3627 in the Great Attractor
February 17 1996: Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe
February 16 1996: The Early Universe
February 15 1996: NEAR to an Asteroid
February 14 1996: NGC 2237: The Rosette Nebula
February 13 1996: 7,000 Stars And The Milky Way
February 12 1996: Pluto Not Yet Explored
February 11 1996: Sputnik: The Traveling Companion
February 10 1996: The First Explorer
February 09 1996: The Eye of an Hourglass Nebula
February 08 1996: Hyakutake: The Great Comet of 1996?
February 07 1996: If You Could Stand on Mars
February 06 1996: COBE Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known
February 05 1996: COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
February 04 1996: The Closest Galaxy: The Sagittarius Dwarf
February 03 1996: A Huge Impact Crater on Mars
February 02 1996: A MACHO View of Galactic Dark Matter
February 01 1996: Lensing through Baade's Window
January 31 1996: Planets Around Sun-Like Stars
January 30 1996: 70 Virginis b: A New Water Planet?
January 29 1996: Searchlight Beams from the Egg Nebula
January 28 1996: Orbiting Repairmen
January 27 1996: Open Cluster M8 in the Lagoon
January 26 1996: Quadrantids: Meteors in Perspective
January 25 1996: Catching Falling Stardust
January 24 1996: The Deep Field
January 23 1996: Beneath Jupiter's Clouds
January 22 1996: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
January 21 1996: Mercury's Faults
January 20 1996: Mercury's Caloris Basin
January 19 1996: The Dusty Disk of Beta Pic
January 18 1996: MyCn18: An Hourglass Nebula
January 17 1996: NGC 7027: A Dying Star's Nebula
January 16 1996: Wild Duck Open Cluster M11
January 15 1996: The Dawn of the Clusters
January 14 1996: A Distant Cluster of Galaxies
January 13 1996: Lunokhod 1: Moon Robot
January 12 1996: Mare Orientale
January 11 1996: Lasers in Eta Carinae
January 10 1996: The Cepheids of M100
January 09 1996: M100 and the Expanding Universe
January 08 1996: Local Group Galaxy NGC 205
January 07 1996: Mercury Astronauts and a Redstone
January 06 1996: Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy M32
January 05 1996: The Toby Jug Nebula
January 04 1996: Symbiotic Star System R Aquarii
January 03 1996: The X-ray Timing Explorer
January 02 1996: The X-Ray Sky
January 01 1996: Shuttle Engine Blast