DECEMBER
1996Browse every NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day entry published in December 1996.
01Star Trails in Northern Skies
02Orion's Star Colors
03Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
04Ice at the Lunar South Pole
05Io's Giant Volcano Pele
06Globular Cluster M3
07Planetary Systems Now Forming in Orion
08Degas Ray Crater on Mercury
09Callisto Full Face
10Comet Halley's Nucleus
11Starburst Ring in Galaxy NGC 1317
12The Milky Way Through the Summer Triangle
13Disorder in Stephan's Quintet
14Our Solar System from Voyager
15Microlensing of the Einstein Cross
16Nebula Nova Cygni Turns On
17Mariner's Mercury
18A Sky Full Of Hydrogen
19Comet Hale-Bopp Inbound
20The UV SMC from UIT
21Sun and Winter Solstice 1996
2218 Miles From Deimos
23The Hills of Ganymede
24A Mirry Christmas
25An Earth Ornament
26Carl Sagan 1934-1996
27HET: The New Largest Optical Telescope
28CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule
29Dark Bok Globules in IC 2944
30X-Ray Earth
31Io Rotating
01Aurora Over Circle, Alaska
02Bubbles and Arcs in NGC 2359
03A Wolf-Rayet Star Blows Bubbles
04A Star Where Photons Orbit