1. The Best Astronomy Pictures of 2005-2006* 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 2005 and Yes, it’s subjective!

4. STS-1: First Shuttle Launch

5. A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence

6. Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation

7. M16: Stars from Eagle's EGGs

8. Earth Rise

9. Top Five APOD Images of all Time* *Before 2005 and Yes, it’s again subjective!

10. Inside the Eagle Nebula

11. The Big Corona

12. M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

13. Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth

14. Earth at Night

15. Image Credits Top NASA: All NASA (no joke!) Top APOD: –Eagle Nebula: © AURA, NOAO, NSF –Andromeda Galaxy: © Robert Gendler –Big Corona: Fred Espenak –Eclipsed Earth: Mir 27 Crew, CNES –Earth at Night: DMSP Satellites

16. Just Wow Images

17. V838 Mon: Echoes from the Edge

18. WMAP Resolves the Universe

19. Top APOD Images of 2005-2006*

20. Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300

21. Titan Landscape

22. Eight Kilometers Above Titan

23. Saturn's Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface

24. Persistent Saturnian Auroras

25. The Fox Fur Nebula

26. To Fly Free in Space

27. NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide

28. Solar Eclipse in View

29. The Fairy of Eagle Nebula

30. M51: Cosmic Whirlpool

31. Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane

32. The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared

33. Particle Sizes in Saturn's Rings

34. Sculpting the South Pillar

35. Titan's Cryovolcano

36. Tornado and Rainbow Over Kansas

37. Sunset Over Gusev Crater

38. The Giant Radio Lobes of Fornax A

39. Ring Around Fomalhaut

40. Thirteen Seconds After Impact

41. A Nearby Supernova in M51

42. Water Ice in a Martian Crater

43. Solar System Object Larger than Pluto Discovered

44. A Shuttle Back Flip at the Space Station

45. The International Space Station from Orbit

46. Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae from SALT

47. Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus

48. A Quadruple Sky Over Great Salt Lake

50. Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters

51. Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Localized

52. A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station

53. Possible Pluto Moons

54. The Missing Craters of Asteroid Itokawa

55. SN 1006: Supernova Remnant in X-Rays

56. Infrared Helix

57. Stardust Capsule Returns to Earth

58. New Horizons Launches to Pluto

59. The N44 Superbubble

60. Wisps Surrounding the Horsehead Nebula

61. An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturn's Telesto

62. Unexpected Comet Pojmanski Now Visible

63. Earth's Shrinking Antarctic Ice Sheet

64. Super-Earths May Circle Other Stars

65. Inflating the Universe

66. Image Credits and Copyrights available on the APOD website

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

68. 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.