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Every picture published on 2 January

31 pictures across the years.

2 January 2026
NanoSail D2
2 January 2025
Solar Analemma 2024
2 January 2024
Rocket Transits Rippling Moon
2 January 2023
After Sunset Planet Parade
2 January 2022
Quadruple Lunar Halo Over Winter Road
2 January 2021
21st Century Wet Collodion Moon
2 January 2020
The Fainting of Betelgeuse
2 January 2019
The Orion Nebula in Infrared from WISE
2 January 2018
Unexpected X-Rays from Perseus Galaxy Cluster
2 January 2017
Comet 45P Returns
2 January 2016
Sky Lights in the New Year
2 January 2015
At the Heart of Orion
2 January 2014
Reflections on Planet Earth
2 January 2013
The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens
2 January 2012
Spot the Moon
2 January 2011
Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth
2 January 2010
Blue Moon Eclipse
2 January 2009
Alpine Conjunction
2 January 2008
A Galaxy is not a Comet
2 January 2007
Light from the First Stars
2 January 2006
A Sun Pillar Over Maine
2 January 2005
Welcome to Planet Earth
2 January 2004
An Apollo 12 Panorama
2 January 2003
Mt. Etna Eruption Plume
2 January 2002
International Space Station Over Earth
2 January 2001
Jupiter, Europa, and Callisto
2 January 2000
The Largest Rock Known
2 January 1999
Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
2 January 1998
Europa’s Disconnected Surface
2 January 1997
Bubbles and Arcs in NGC 2359
2 January 1996
The X-Ray Sky

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