The sky on
your birthday.
“Red Aurora over Poland” is copyrighted by Mariusz Durlej. NASA has permission to show it and we don't, so it isn't on this card.
See it on NASA's siteNorthern lights usually do not reach this far south, but magnetic chaos on the Sun's AR 3664 changed that. A surface explosion sent a burst of charged particles into the solar system. A few days later, this coronal mass ejection impacted Earth, triggering auroras unusually far from the poles. This image shows the red aurora over Poland.
The Sun on 12 May 2024
NASA SDO took this picture on 12 May 2024, the day itself, not a release date.
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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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The Sun on your day The Sun on 12 May 2024 See it as a poster -
The Earth on your day The Earth on 12 May 2024 · Colorado Plateau See it as a poster -
Released on 12 May 2010 M72: A Globular Cluster of Stars See it as a poster -
Released on 12 May 2004 Spirit Keeps on Trekking polar eye See it as a poster -
Released on 12 May 2004 Spirit Keeps on Trekking vertical eye See it as a poster -
Released on 12 May 2022 First image of our black hole See it as a poster -
Released on 12 May 2025 Capturing candyfloss clouds See it as a poster
In tropical astrology, 12 MAY 2024 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 12 MAY 2024.
Questions about May 12, 2024
What space photo was released on May 12, 2024?
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for May 12, 2024 was "Red Aurora over Poland". 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 12, 2024?
A waxing crescent moon, about 17% lit.
What day of the week was May 12, 2024?
May 12, 2024 was a Sunday, day 133 of the 366 days in 2024.
What did the Sun and the Earth look like on May 12, 2024?
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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