JANUARY
2016Browse every NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day entry published in January 2016.
27Doomed Star Eta Carinae
28Falcon 9 First Stage Landing
29Dust of the Orion Nebula
30The Fox Fur Nebula
31Solstice Sun at Lulworth Cove
01Comet Catalina Tails
02Sky Lights in the New Year
03A Starry Night of Iceland
04Earthset from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
05The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen, Sulfur, and Oxygen
06Comets and Bright Star
07High Energy Andromeda
08Prometheus and the F Ring
09Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
10Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection
11A Colorful Solar Corona over the Himalayas
12The California Nebula
13Reflections on the 1970s
14Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud
15Wright Mons in Color
16The View Toward M106
17The Galactic Center in Infrared
18Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star
19A Dark Sand Dune on Mars
20Stars and Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula
21The View Toward M101
2221st Century M101
23Big Dipper, Deep Sky
24Star Cluster R136 Bursts Out
25Where Your Elements Came From
26A Candidate for the Biggest Boom Yet Seen
27An Airglow Fan from Lake to Sky
28Elliptical M60, Spiral NGC 4647
29Hidden Galaxy IC 342
30A Five Planet Dawn
31MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula
01Find the Man in the Moon
02Comet 67P from Spacecraft Rosetta
03Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82
04Dwarf Planet Ceres
05Massive Stars in NGC 6357
06Five Planets at Castell de Burriac