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This initiative has received support from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and MTU. The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, unlike many other NASA image galleries. [4] When the APOD website was created, it received a total of 14 page views on its first day.
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]
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]
ESA/Hubble images of Centaurus A; NASA's APOD: X-Rays from an Active Galaxy (July 5, 2003) NASA's APOD: The Galaxy Within Centaurus A (March 4, 2006) NASA's APOD: Centaurus A (July 12, 2018) NASA's APOD: Centaurus A: A Peculiar Island of Stars (May 3. 2023) High-resolution image of Centaurus A showing the discrete elements of galactic core
The comet was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey on 5 April 2024, in images obtained with a 0.5-m reflector telescope located in Río Hurtado, Chile. The comet at the time was a magnitude 19 object about 4.38 AU (655 million km) from Earth. Further observations indicated it had a diffuse coma about 4. ...
His work is widely published in the media. [2] [3]On 10 April 2009, NASA featured one of his images as its "Astronomy Picture of the Day". [4] An October 2011 image he took of the 2.6-short-ton (2.4 t) defunct German telescope ROSAT was published by various media outlets, including the Washington Post, The New York Times, and Fox News. [5]
Past images are stored in the APOD Archive, with the first image appearing on June 16, 1995. [282] This initiative has received support from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and MTU. The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, unlike many other NASA image ...