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Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). It reads: "Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer ."
Rogelio Bernal Andreo (born 9 January 1969) is a Spanish-American astrophotographer.He is known for his photographs of deep sky objects.His work has been recognized by NASA as a regular contributor to their Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) [1] 80 times.
He is an active researcher with interests that include gamma-ray bursts, gravitational lensing, and cosmology, and is the cofounder and coeditor of Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), [2] the home page of which receives over a million hits a day, approximately 20% of nasa.gov traffic. [3] He is married and has one daughter. [4]
IC 5146 (also Caldwell 19, Sh 2-125, Barnard 168, and the Cocoon Nebula) is a reflection [2] /emission [3] nebula and Caldwell object in the constellation Cygnus.The NGC description refers to IC 5146 as a cluster of 9.5 mag stars involved in a bright and dark nebula.
O'Donnell has been awarded with the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) by NASA twice. The first was published on the APOD website on March 20, 2015, entitled "Sunshine, Earthshine". [11] "Earth Shine" depicts the moon 14 hours after perigee, the point where the moon is closest to the earth. [12]
London: The National Gallery, 1996. Puckett Comet Images. NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Moon over Andromeda (1 August 2013) NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Rosette Nebula (14 February 2008) NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Cone Nebula (12 April 2007) NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Moon over Andromeda (28 December 2006)
Picture of the day "The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of Earth. NASA officially credits the image to the entire Apollo 17 crew — Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Jack Schmitt — all of whom took photographic images during the mission. Apollo 17 passed over Africa during daylight hours and Antarctica is also illuminated.
Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies. It provides the kinematics and physical origin of the Solar System and this galaxy , the Milky Way .