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AUGUST 2008 NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY GALLERYMoon Games
 Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net / TWAN)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationEclipse Shirt
 Credit & Copyright: Philippe Haake
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationOpen Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box
 Credit: ESA & NASA; Acknowledgement: E. Olszewski (U. Arizona)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationX-Rays from the Cat's Eye Nebula
 Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationA Total Solar Eclipse Over China
 Credit & Copyright: Bill Buckingham
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationNGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster
 Credit: Diedre Hunter (Lowell Obs.) et al., HST, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationAt the Sun's Edge
 Credit & Copyright: Catalin Beldea (Descopera Magazine)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationThe Crown of the Sun
 Credit & Copyright: Hartwig Luethen
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationAurora Persei
 Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College) The Crown of the Sun Credit & Copyright: Hartwig Luethen
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationThe Eagle Rises
 Credit: Apollo 11, NASA - Stereo Image Copyright: John Kaufmann (ALSJ)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationBlack Hole Candidate Cygnus X-1
 Credit: ESA, Hubble
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationMars Panorama from the Phoenix Lander
 Credit: Phoenix Mission Team, NASA, JPL-Caltech, U. Arizona
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationNGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
 Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationPerseid Trail
 Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com / TWAN)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationFacing NGC 6946
 Credit & Copyright: Volker Wendel (Spiegelteam)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationPerseid over Vancouver
 Credit & Copyright: Yuichi Takasaka (www.blue-moon.ca / TWAN)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationIo's Surface: Under Construction
 Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationBaily's Beads near Solar Eclipse Totality
 Credit & Copyright: Leonid Durman
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationNGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula
 Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mount Lemmon SkyCenter, Univ. Arizona
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationEarth's Shadow
 Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis (TWAN)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationAugust Moons
 Credit & Copyright: Dennis Mammana (left), Laurent Laveder, TWAN
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationActive Galaxy NGC 1275
 Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA); A. Fabian (IoA, Cambridge U.), L. Frattare (STScI), CXC, G. Taylor, NRAO,VLA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationThe Matter of the Bullet Cluster
 Composite Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/ M.Markevitch et al.; Lensing Map: NASA/STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan/U.Arizona/ D.Clowe et al. Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationGrand Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232
 Credit: FORS1, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationNGC 7008: The Fetus Nebula
 Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Don Goldman, Paul Mortfield
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation47 Tuc: A Great Globular Cluster of Stars
 Credit & Copyright: Thomas V. Davis (tvdavisastropix.com)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationIC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula
 Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationFermi's First Light
 Credit: NASA, DOE, International LAT Team
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationGenerations of Stars in W5
 Credit Lori Allen, Xavier Koenig (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationThe View from Everest
 Credit & Copyright: Roddy Mackenzie
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanationEclipse over the Great Wall
 Credit & Copyright: Mike Simmons (Astronomers Without Borders, TWAN)
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