The sky on
your birthday.
“Shell Game in the LMC” is copyrighted by John Gleason. NASA has permission to show it and we don't, so it isn't on this card.
See it on NASA's siteThe Large Magellanic Cloud, our Milky Way's largest satellite galaxy, glows in the southern sky. This image uses narrow-band filters to show the light from ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms. These elements, energized by young, massive stars, form shell-shaped clouds of gas. The colors are assigned to specific elements: red for sulfur, green for hydrogen, and blue for oxygen.
The Sun on 29 December 2016
NASA SDO took this picture on 29 December 2016, the day itself, not a release date.
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The Sun on your day The Sun on 29 December 2016 See it as a poster -
The Earth on your day The Earth on 29 December 2016 · Eye of the Sahara, Mauritania See it as a poster -
Released on 29 December 2006 Enceladus: Trailing Hemisphere See it as a poster -
Released on 29 December 2014 An ancient globule See it as a poster -
Released on 29 December 2012 Zeta Oph: Runaway Star See it as a poster -
Released on 29 December 2019 Stars glitter in the night sky above an atmospheric glow that blankets the city lights as the International Space See it as a poster -
Released on 29 December 2020 The waxing gibbous Moon, the phase before it becomes a Full Moon, is pictured from the International Space Station See it as a poster
In tropical astrology, 29 DEC 2016 falls under Capricorn (♑). The sign's window runs from 12-22 through 01-19. Capricorn is the dimmest zodiac constellation, but rich in deep-sky objects south of the celestial equator. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 29 DEC 2016.
Questions about December 29, 2016
What space photo was released on December 29, 2016?
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for December 29, 2016 was "Shell Game in the LMC". 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 December 29, 2016?
A new moon, about 0% lit.
What day of the week was December 29, 2016?
December 29, 2016 was a Thursday, day 364 of the 366 days in 2016.
What did the Sun and the Earth look like on December 29, 2016?
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the Sun that day, and NASA's Terra satellite photographed the whole Earth. Both are on this page, next to the card.
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