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Every picture published on 16 February

31 pictures across the years.

16 February 2026
Unexplained Shocks Around a White Dwarf Star
Video

16 February 2025
Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter
16 February 2024
Structure in the Tail of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
16 February 2023
The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies
Video

16 February 2022
Eiffel Tower Prominence on the Sun
Video

16 February 2021
Perseverance: Seven Minutes to Mars
16 February 2020
NGC 2392: Double Shelled Planetary Nebula
16 February 2019
NGC 2359: Thor’s Helmet
16 February 2018
Comet PanSTARRS is near the Edge
16 February 2017
The Tulip and Cygnus X-1
16 February 2016
Star Forming Region S106
16 February 2015
M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center
16 February 2014
Inside the Eagle Nebula
16 February 2013
Sweeping Through Southern Skies
16 February 2012
NGC 5965 and NGC 5963 in Draco
16 February 2011
Comet Tempel 1 from Stardust NeXT Spacecraft
16 February 2010
Dark Shuttle Approaching
16 February 2009
The Great Carina Nebula
16 February 2008
Large Binocular Telescope
16 February 2007
Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 2685
16 February 2006
The Color of the Moon
16 February 2005
Sunspot Metamorphosis: From Bottom to Top
16 February 2004
A Patch of Spherules on Mars
16 February 2003
Southwest Mercury
16 February 2002
Miranda, Chevron, and Alonso
16 February 2001
Star Forming Region Hubble X
16 February 2000
Eros From Orbit
16 February 1999
The Large and Small of M87
16 February 1998
Sagittarius Dwarf to Collide with Milky Way
16 February 1997
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
16 February 1996
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