APOD is Five Years Old Today
Explanation:
Welcome to the sixth year
of Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)!
Above are the industrious Robert Nemiroff (left)
and persistent Jerry Bonnell (right),
still engaged in creating the
APOD web pages.
As suggested by
imagery
in this recently released
Vermeer,
APOD's origins derive from many dramatic, intellectual
deliberations
over the ultimate value of the World Wide Web.
In our view, the WWW has evolved into a significant and still growing
collective human resource and we think it's
important
to contribute.
We are extremely grateful for the continued large volume of
gracious e-mail and APOD submissions.
Today
we would like to offer a very sincere
thank you to all.
We are certainly proud that each day over the
last five years
APOD has consistently coupled an expanding
universe of hypertext with inspiring
images of the cosmos.
In fact, tomorrow's picture might actually be ...
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
Specific
rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
