The sky on
your birthday.
“7,000 Stars And The Milky Way” is copyrighted by Lund Observatory,. NASA has permission to show it and we don't, so it isn't on this card.
See it on NASA's siteThis panorama of the sky is a 1940s drawing from Lund Observatory in Sweden. Draftsmen used a mathematical distortion to map the entire sky onto an oval image. The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy runs along the center, with the north galactic pole at the top. Seven thousand individual stars are shown as white dots, their size indicating brightness.
Comparison View of Mars Cloud Cover
ESA/Hubble released this picture on 20 May 1997. That is the day it was published, not the day it was taken.
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Released on your day
Space pictures released on your month and day in other years, or a few days either side. Each one is sharp enough to print as a poster.
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Released on 17 May 2018 The glowing spiral arms of NGC 6744 See it as a poster -
Released on 17 May 2018 Messier 66: member of the Leo Triplet See it as a poster -
Released on 17 May 2018 Wave of star formation in Messier 96 See it as a poster -
Released on 17 May 2010 A clump of galaxy misfits See it as a poster -
Released on 17 May 2022 The sun's glint beams off the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Angola as the International Space Station orbited 264 See it as a poster
In tropical astrology, 17 MAY 1997 falls under Taurus (♉). The sign's window runs from 04-20 through 05-20. Taurus holds the Pleiades star cluster and Aldebaran, the red giant that marks the eye of the Bull. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 17 MAY 1997.
Questions about May 17, 1997
What space photo was released on May 17, 1997?
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for May 17, 1997 was "7,000 Stars And The Milky Way". It's a photographer's copyrighted image, so we link to it on NASA's site and show the Sun or the Earth that day instead.
What was the Moon's phase on May 17, 1997?
A waxing gibbous moon, about 79% lit.
What day of the week was May 17, 1997?
May 17, 1997 was a Saturday, day 137 of the 365 days in 1997.
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