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Fantastic Job. What a relief and a sense of wonder for someone my age and curiosity level.
KEEP IT UP.

I have been a fan of APOD for probably at least 15 of those twenty years, and I am daily amazed at the beauty and wonder of our universe. Thank you so much for posting such gorgeous and inspiring pictures for all of us to broaden our minds and open our eyes a little more to the fantastic creation that is our home.

Congratulations, and thank you so very much for years of enjoyment and enlightenment!

I check APOD daily for the last umpteen years, except when I am out of internet range as I was this week (diving on a live-aboard). I got back late last night and while reviewing the APOD's that i missed came upon both "Starry Night" and your 15th Anniversary images. I have bookmarked both for future pleasure. Keep up the good work.

Happy Birthday all you guys. Thanks for a fantastic web site, I have been a fan since soon after you started, and have recmmended the site to all of my friends.
Keep up the wonderful work you do. Many many thanks.

Hello.
Hearty congratulations on your birthday! I am a daily visitor of your site since last 10 years. You have done a wonderful job in popularising astronomy. It is always said that a single picture is more effective than 1000 words. You have proved it conclusively.
I am an associate professor of physics (from India) and a populariser of astronomy. So... best wishes from India. Keep it up.
--Gireesh Pimpale, India.

Merci, merci, merci... et bon anniversaire
From Myriam, your French fan living in Brussels

Felicidades desde Cd. Mante, Tamaulipas, México.
Cada día disfruto enormemente del trabajo que ustedes realizan.
Es una obra instructiva y edificante.
Con mis saludos más cordiales.
David.

I view APOD at work during lunch. You have brightened many Monday-morning commutes with the thought of "Three APODS to view today!" Thank you for what you do.

Thanks Rob. Silly me for not clicking on everything. Instead of the Vigintennial, I'd rather be able to be like Methusalah and see the Nonacentennial.
Or better yet, I'd just opt for the Bimillenial. Pehaps by then the technology would be such that we could also see things from the inside out??

There's a link in the text of this APOD which gets you to a Wiki page where Vigintennial is defined.

Rob

Thanks and congratulations Robert and Jerry. APOD has been a part of my morning ritual for many years. At least ten... I wish you another 15 years of success and happiness.

-Tom

You have enriched my life with all the extraordinary pictures you've made accessable. From my point of consciousness in the universe - THANK YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, APOD, AND MANY, MANY MORE OF 'EM!

WOW!!!! Apod celebrates 15 years of bringing Space down to Earth. 7 pages of everybody saying the same thing differently and only a few with double posts!! That just has to be some kind of record.
I have to admit, though, that Joan Girones referrence to Apod's "Vigintennial" being just around the corner eludes my little Webster's college dictionary, so i do not know what it means. Perhaps she will explain it before the event happens?

Thanks so very much for the many years of great photos. Keep up the good work!!!

Happy birthday and many many thanks!

#1 site on any "Best of the Internet" list that I could imagine . . .

I am glad that I wasn't able to get the chance to come to the BB until this late in the evening - I have had a marvelous time reading all the comments! Like most of these folks, APOD is the first thing that I look at every morning when I connect to the internet. Your dedicated work has given us a wonderful website that appeals not only to our minds but also to our souls.

Thanks to you both for all your work in building this website and thanks also to all the folks in the background - can't forget all the photographers and digital artists that contribute also!!

Here's to many more years - Happy 15th!!!!!

Thanks so much for your daily contributions to the awe in my life. I count on you for a sense of wonder and humility.

Happy birthday APOD. 15 is a maturing age for any human endeavour, on the internet an amazing achievement. We as a species are unique in many ways, and being able to step out from our daily activities and wonder at the world at large is perhaps the most remarkable of all. We have the arts of literature, music & performances, and the sciences abstract & practical, but the awe of being able to look up and marvel is both the simplest of acts, and yet the most challenging. Our place in the universe is incomprehensibly small, yet that it is comprehensible is deeply satisfying. Astronomy is perhaps the only science where the keen amateur can have knowledge, or at least more than passing familiarity, with the professional and academic level of the subject. As such, APOD is a stunning testament to us and to the universe. So my very humble thank you to all involved.

Happy birthday, APOD, and thank you to all of you who bring it to us every day. I'm not sure when I started, sometime in the first year, first a link, then another link, then bookmarked ... you were my browser's homepage before the first anniversary. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I've been a fan for years now. Astronomy fascinates me even though I don't own a telescope. The skies continue to remind me of my place in the pantheistic universe. Thank you.

Congratulations on your persistence for sharing your knowledge and the knowledge of so many people for 15 years. I hope I'm still around to celebrate your 30th anniversary!

Norm

Rather than try to create my own superlatives to describe the great work you've done, and continue to do, with APOD over the years, I'd just like to concur with everyone else's words of awesomeness!
Congratulations on a wonderful achievement.
APOD is one of only a handful of sites that I visit EVERY day (the other few relate to my work, so they don't really count!).

Happy Anniversary and Millions of thanks, Rob and Jerry, for this extraordinary work of 15 years!
APOD is my Homepage for almost 13 years now. My daughter (now 18) never used another Homepage since she has a computer for herself.
Please, keep making our days! A myriad of fans will follow you.