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Astronomy Pictures of the Year: 2003:
News and Views for your Classroom
Robert J. Nemiroff
Top Five NASA Imagesof all Time*
*Yes, it’s subjective!
STS-1: First Shuttle Launch
Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation
A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence
M16: Stars from Eagle's EGGs
Earth Rise
Top Five APOD Imagesof all Time*
Earth at Night
M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth
The Big Corona
Inside the Eagle Nebula
Image Credits
• Top NASA: All NASA (no joke!)
• Top APOD: – Earth at Night: DMSP Satellites– M31: © Robert Gendler– Eclipsed Earth: © CNES– Big Corona: © Fred Espenak, NASA– Eagle Nebula: © AURA, NOAO, NSF
Astronomy Pictures of the Year: 2003:
News and Views for your Classroom
Robert J. Nemiroff
Why great new astronomy images are particularly useful in the classroom
• Great new astronomy images are – a hook to interest potential students in science
and/or Astro 101• Astronomy leads all sciences in cool images
– incite the curiosity of current students• Show a great synergy between beauty and discovery
– show how scientific knowledge evolves– can give overview of topics not covered in class
Sources for Great New Astronomy Images on the Web
• News pages of major telescopes
– Example: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/
• Image galleries of major telescopes
– Example: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/
– Example: http://heritage.stsci.edu/
• space.com
• Sky & Telescope: http://skyandtelescope.com/news/
• Astronomy Magazine: http://astronomy.com/home.asp
• CNN Space: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/
• APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/
How the images were chosen
• By APOD Editors from the 2003 APODs – RJN nearly awake, almost coherent– Yes, it’s VERY subjective
• Most likely to be included in a future astronomy textbook
• Most likely to interest students in Astro 101
• Images from this meeting most likely too new
What is APOD? Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Web site started at NASA in 1995• Written & edited w/ Jerry Bonnell (USRA/NASA)• Features a different astronomy image every day • Mirror sites now translate APOD into most major
languages daily• Hypertext is “best link”, leverages the full web• Archive is encyclopedic and searchable
– Need an astronomy image? Good chance APOD’s got it!
NOT in the Top 10
(But appeared on APOD in 2003 anyway)
A New Constellation Takes Hold
A Chicago Meteorite Fall
Egging On the Autumnal Equinox
Cool Amateur Pictures
(But still not in the top 10)
An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse
Mars Rising Behind Elephant Rock
(One of Time Magazines Pictures of the Year 2003)
Comet NEAT Approaches the Sun
Sunrise Analemma
A Mercury Transit Sequence
Really Cool(But still not in the top 10)
The Long Shadow of the Moon
Will the Universe End in a Big Rip?
Big Mars from Hubble
Space Rock SQ222 Noticed After Pass
The Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream
Canis Major Dwarf: A New Closest Galaxy
The Sun's Surface in 3D
Composite Crab
X-Rays from the Galactic Core
Light Can Twist as Well as Spin
Top 10 Astronomy
Pictures of the Year 2003*
The Andromeda Galaxy from GALEX
Inside the Elephant's Trunk (from the Spitzer Space Telescope)
The 2MASS Galaxy Sky
Zooming in on the First Stars
KamLAND Verifies the Sun
Abell 1689 Warps Space
The Andromeda Deep Field
Large Sunspot Groups 10484 and 10486
V838 Light Echo: The Movie
WMAP Resolves the Universe
2003 was another great year for astronomy!
Image Credits and CopyrightsNot in the Top 10• A New Constellation Takes Hold
– Hugo E. Schwarz (CTIO), NOAO
• A Chicago Meteorite Fall– Ivan and Colby Navarro
• Egging on the Autumnal Equinox– Phil Plait aka “The Bad Astronomer”
Cool Amateur Pictures• An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse
– Fred Bruenjes
• Mars Rising Behind Elephant Rock– Wally Pacholka
• Sunrise Analemma– Anthony Ayiomamitis
• A Mercury Transit Sequence– Dominique Dierick
Really Cool• The Long Shadow of the Moon
– J. Descloitres, MOTIS, NASA
• Will the Universe End in a Big Rip?– Illustration: Lynette Cook
• Big Mars from Hubble– J. Bell (Cornell) et al., STScI, NASA
• Space Rock SQ222 Notices After Pass– LONEOS Team, Lowell Observatory
• The Sagittarius Dwarf Tital Stream– Drawing: D. Martinez-Delgado (MPIA) etal.
• Canis Major: A New Closest Galaxy– R. Ibata (Strasbourg) et al. 2MASS, NASA
• The Sun’s Surface in 3D– G. Scharmer (ISP, RSAS), Lockheed-Martin
• Composite Crab– J. Hester (ASU) et al., Chandra, HST, NASA
• X-rays from the Galactic Core– F. Baganoff (MIT) et al., Chandra, NASA
• Light Can Twist as Well as Spin– M. J. Padgett et al. (Glasgow), Royal Society
Image Credits and CopyrightsTop 10
• The Andromeda Galaxy from GALEX– GALEX Team, Caltech, NASA
• Inside the Elephant's Trunk– Spitzer Space Telescope Team, W. Reach (Caltech), JPL, Caltech, NASA
• The 2MASS Galaxy Sky– T. H. Jarrett et al., 2MASS
• Zooming in on the First Stars– Visualization: Ralf Kaehler (ZIB) & Tom Abel (Penn. State); – Simulation: Tom Abel (Penn. State), Greg Bryan (Oxford) & Mike Norman (UCSD)
• KamLAND Verifies the Sun– KamLAND Collaboration
• Abell 1689 Warps Space– N. Benitez (JHU), et al., ACS Science Team, HST, NASA
• The Andromeda Deep Field
– T. M. Brown (STScI) et al., ESA, NASA
• Large Sunspot Groups 10484 and 10486
– Juan Carlos Casado
• WMAP Resolves the Universe– WMAP Science Team, NASA
Postscripts
• The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is available online at http://apod.nasa.gov/
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