SEPTEMBER
1996Browse every NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day entry published in September 1996.
01VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope
02Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night
03The Pleiades Star Cluster
04IRTF: Scanning the Infrared Skies
05Watch Galaxies Form
06The Largest Impact Crater
07Two Billion Years After the Big Bang
08Volcano Euboea Fluctus On Io
09The High Energy Crab Nebula
10M77: Spiral with a Strange Glow
11In the Center of Spiral M77
12Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
13Southwest Mercury
14Aristarchus' Unbelievable Discoveries
15Tycho Brahe Measures the Sky
16The Sun Erupts
17Comet Hale-Bopp Fades
18Stars in the Infrared Sky
19The Moon and All the Crashes
20Hurricane Fran's Approach
21The Ecliptic Plane
22The Equal Night
23Venus: Earth's Cloudy Twin
24Beneath Venus' Clouds
25Bright Stars and Dark Clouds
26Tonight: A Total Lunar Eclipse
27Welcome Home Shannon Lucid
28A Soyuz at Mir
29The X-Ray Moon
30Exploring The Universe With IUE (1978-1996)
01BATSE's Biggest Gamma Ray Burst (Yet)
02Orion's Horsehead Nebula
03Three Views of Jupiter's Io
04Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
05A Close-Up of the Horsehead Nebula