MAY
1997Browse every NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day entry published in May 1997.
27Sputnik: Traveling Companion Courtesy:
28Io's Sodium Cloud
29Hale-Bopp and Orion
30Milky Way Molecule Map
01A Galactic Cloud of Antimatter
02X-Rays From IC 443
03Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Galaxy Images
04The Last Moon Shot
05Sunset with Hale-Bopp at Keck
06NGC4039: Starbirth and Galaxy Death
07Ultraviolet Venus
08Detailing Hale-Bopp
09Apollo 12: Self-Portrait
10Apollo 15's Home on the Moon
11M42: A Mosaic of Orion's Great Nebula
12Lightning on Jupiter
13Optical Transient Near GRB970508 Shows Distant Redshift
14Hale-Bopp's Fickle Ion Tail
15Hale-Bopp: Climbing Into Southern Skies
16Signed, “A Black Hole”
177,000 Stars And The Milky Way
18The First Explorer
19Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365
20Shells in the Egg Nebula
21GRB970508 Delivers Predicted Radio Emission
22Bound For Mars
23The Heart Of Orion
24Saturn's Rings Seen Sideways
25A High Energy Fleet
26Old Faithful Meets Hale-Bopp
27Moonrise, Planet Earth
28Mars: Just The Fiction
29Southern Neptune
30A Cosmic Snowball
31Saturn with Moons Tethys and Dione