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Every picture published on 16 January

31 pictures across the years.

16 January 2026
NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
16 January 2025
M83: The Southern Pinwheel
16 January 2024
The Orion You Can Almost See
16 January 2023
Moon Enhanced
16 January 2022
A Retreating Thunderstorm at Sunset
16 January 2021
The Mountains of NGC 2174
16 January 2020
NGC 247 and Friends
16 January 2019
IC 342: The Hidden Galaxy
16 January 2018
An Elephant’s Trunk in Cepheus
Video

16 January 2017
Geostationary Highway through Orion
16 January 2016
The View Toward M106
16 January 2015
Huygens Lands on Titan
16 January 2014
Despina, Moon of Neptune
16 January 2013
NGC 1309: Spiral Galaxy and Friends
Video

16 January 2012
Zodiacal Light and the False Dawn
16 January 2011
Globular Star Cluster 47 Tuc
16 January 2010
New Year Sun Grazer
16 January 2009
ISS: Reflections of Earth
16 January 2008
MESSENGER Passes Mercury
16 January 2007
Keplers Supernova Remnant in X Rays
16 January 2006
Stardust Capsule Returns to Earth
16 January 2005
Nebula Nova Cygni Turns On
16 January 2004
Martian Surface in Perspective
16 January 2003
NGC 1700: Elliptical Galaxy and Rotating Disk
16 January 2002
Abell 2597 s Cosmic Cavities
16 January 2001
Europa Rotating
16 January 2000
The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
16 January 1999
Spiral Eddies On Planet Earth
16 January 1998
Dusting Spiral Galaxies
16 January 1997
Trapezium: Teardrops in My Skies
16 January 1996
Wild Duck Open Cluster M11

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