1. The Best Astronomy Pictures of 2004* Robert Nemiroff

2. 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!

3. Top Five NASA Images of All Time* *Before 2004 and Yes, it’s subjective!

4. STS-1: First Shuttle Launch

5. Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation

6. A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence

7. M16: Stars from Eagle's EGGs

8. Earth Rise

9. Top Five APOD Images of all Time*

10. Earth at Night

11. M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

12. Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth

13. The Big Corona

14. Inside the Eagle Nebula

15. Image Credits Mars: All NASA Top NASA: All NASA (no joke!) Top APOD: –Earth at Night: DMSP Satellites –Microwave Background: WMAP, NASA –Sun: SOHO, NASA –Andromeda Galaxy: © Robert Gendler –Eagle Nebula: © AURA, NOAO, NSF

16. Top 42 APOD Images of 2004*

17. Comet Wild 2's Nucleus from Stardust

18. Sol 5 Postcard from Mar

19. An Orion Deep Field

20. Galaxy Cluster Lenses Farthest Known Galaxy

21. Rumors of a Strange Universe

22. Moon and Venus over Corona Del Mar Beach

23. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field

24. Sedna of the Outer Solar System

25. A Prominent Solar Prominence from SOHO

26. A Berry Bowl of Martian Spherules

27. Massive Star Forming Region DR21 in Infrared

28. The Smooth Spheres of Gravity Probe B

29. Eyeful of Saturn

30. Comets Bradfield and LINEAR Rising

31. The Tails of Comet NEAT (Q4)

32. A Manhattan Sunset

33. The Supergalactic Wind from Starburst Galaxy M82

34. The Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi

35. Mammatus Clouds Over Mexico

36. Venus and the Chromosphere

37. Unusual Layers on Saturn's Moon Phoebe

38. Cassini Images Saturn's A Ring

39. Saturn's Rings in Natural Color

40. Spicules: Jets on the Sun

41. The Dark River to Antares

42. The Double Haze above Titan

43. Raining Perseids

44. Looking Out Over Mars

45. Supply Ship Approaches the Space Station

46. A Supernova in Nearby Galaxy NGC 2403

47. Cat's Eye

48. Genesis Mission's Hard Impact

49. Aurora Over a Communications Tower

50. SpaceShipOne Wins the X-Prize

51. Tantalizing Titan

52. Storm Alley on Saturn

53. Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy

54. Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars

55. Debris Disks Surround Distant Suns

56. Titan Surmised

57. Announcing Comet Machholz

58. Image Credits and Copyrights Abell 1689 Warps Space –ACS Team, ESA, NASA Comet NEAT Approaches the Sun –Anton Spenko (Rezmon Observatory) A New Constellation Takes Hold –Hugo E. Schwarz (CTIO), NOAO V838 Light Echo: The Movie – H. Bond (STScI), A. Henden (USNO Flagstaff), Z. Levay (STScI), et al., ESA, NASA The 2MASS Galaxy Sky – 2MASS, T. H. Jarrett, J. Carpenter, & R. Hurt Dumbbell Nebula Close-Up from Hubble – C. R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt) et al., Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA), NASA Rollout of a Soyuz TMA-2 Aboard an R7 Rocket – Scott Andrews, NASA SIRTF Streak –Ben Cooper A Chicago Meteorite Fall – Ivan and Colby Navarro 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) Launch of the Spirit Rover Toward Mars –Dan Maas (Maas Digital), Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation, Boeing, NASA The Colorful Horsehead Nebula –Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, J.-C. Cuillandre (CFHT), Coelum Big Mars from Hubble – J. Bell (Cornell U.), M. Wolff (SSI) et al., STScI, 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

59. The best images from the first six years of APOD can be found here:

60. Postscripts The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is available online at http://apod.nasa.gov/. The Universe: 365 Days book is available at most bookstores including the AMNH museum bookstore. See the Sky: Join the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York!