APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

[SusanR]

Happy Birthday to you.

I know very little about astronomy (but thanks to you I'm learning a little bit). Your site is my home page, and mostly supplies me with my daily dose of awe. Keep it up! Thanks.

[cwsapphire]

APOD is and has been my home page for years. Every time I log on to the internet up pops APOD. I send the link to many friends frequently, when I see a photo someone might like.
Thanks for bringing the beauty of the cosmos down to earth for so many years!
Cheers, and here's to the future of APOD.

[ta152h0]

I remember discussions tears ago that CCD devices are going to destroy astronomy.. Well, looks like it didn't

[crockettpd]

Thanks for the APOD - downloading it to my screensaver files is part of my daily routine.
Great work and images.

pc

[Jeana777]

Happy Birthday!!! I love APOD!!!

[Roni]

Thank you so much for your website. It is my homepage and we made it the homepage at the environmental non-profit I founded and ran for 6 years. It is such a valuable service in these times to help us all remember the stunning beauty we are part of. Congrats!

[Joan Girones]

Well done fellows! The APOD's vigintennial year is just arround the corner.

[lightway1]

I have been checking out this site almost from its the beginning...you have brought many a wow factor to my days and given me much to share in my classrooms. Many Thanks for showing off His handy work..many awesome beautiful things created to be seen and explored!

[Moyoak]

Congratulations,

APOD was one of my first discoveries on the net in 1997 and is still one of my daily favorites.

big thank you, moyoak

[Charles]

Thanks - your site is often the high point of my working day!
Charles in San Francisco

[v13]

Thank you very very much for APOD!

All these year it is exciting our minds!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[Pink Eagle]

Thank you for taking me beyond my human eye to gaze upon the realm I live in, overwhelmed with its' beauty and awe! Your hard work is much appreciated by me and my family. Happy 15th and light-years to come

[Yarp]

Congrats.
I visit APOD every day. Thank you for all those beautiful pictures and information.
Yarp from Nantes, France

[iamarobot]

Thank you APOD for bringing me these visions of creation every morning. I always knew they were out there and just waiting for us to join the party. I spread the word and have convinced people to log on daily. Long may you continue to bring these 'gaspers' into view!

i agree! APOD is a daily ritual for me, and i too love to see the mystery and magic of creation every morning - really puts things in perspective!
thank you and happy birthday!!!

[ATrin]

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.

[Guest]

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!).

[Norm]

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

[SusanJane]

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.

[htom]

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.

[Guest]

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.

[Brent]

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

[biddie67]

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!!!!!

[whawk3]

Happy birthday and many many thanks!

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

[apodee]

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

[Beyond]

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?