The sky on
your birthday.
“Kepler's House in Linz” is copyrighted by Astronomical Society of Linz. NASA has permission to show it and we don't, so it isn't on this card.
See it on NASA's siteFour hundred years ago, Johannes Kepler discovered his Third Law of planetary motion. He made this discovery while living in this house on The Hofgasse in Linz, Austria. Kepler's law describes the simple mathematical rule governing the orbits of the solar system's planets. The identification of this specific residence as the discovery site is a recent finding.
The Sun on 15 May 2018
NASA SDO took this picture on 15 May 2018, the day itself, not a release date.
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The Sun on your day The Sun on 15 May 2018 See it as a poster -
The Earth on your day The Earth on 15 May 2018 · Persian Gulf See it as a poster -
Released on 15 May 2017 Crab on LCD See it as a poster -
Released on 15 May 2017 Very Large Array (radio) Image of the Crab Nebula See it as a poster -
Released on 15 May 2017 Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared) Image of the Crab Nebula See it as a poster -
Released on 15 May 2017 Hubble Space Telescope (visible) Image of the Crab Nebula See it as a poster -
Released on 15 May 2017 XMM-Newton (ultraviolet) Image of the Crab Nebula See it as a poster
In tropical astrology, 15 MAY 2018 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 15 MAY 2018.
Questions about May 15, 2018
What space photo was released on May 15, 2018?
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for May 15, 2018 was "Kepler's House in Linz". 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 15, 2018?
A new moon, about 0% lit.
What day of the week was May 15, 2018?
May 15, 2018 was a Tuesday, day 135 of the 365 days in 2018.
What did the Sun and the Earth look like on May 15, 2018?
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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