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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Портреты Марса](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/05/05/0001244928/Planche-Mars-2010_900.preview.jpg)
5.05.2010
Enthusiastic astro-artists ranging from expert to beginner, the youngest age 10, all contributed their work to this entertaining panel featuring different faces of Mars. Their sketches are all based on telescopic views of the Red Planet from earlier this year, near its 2010 opposition.
![Коридор горного ореола](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/05/04/0001244914/glories_tudorica.preview.jpg)
4.05.2010
If you tried to enter this hall of fog, you would find it dissipates around you. The hall is actually an the mountain from which this picture was taken. Known as "the glory", the phenomenon is frequently seen from airplanes.
![Спиральная галактика NGC 3190 с ребра](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/05/03/0001244907/ngc3190_hstlegacy.preview.jpg)
3.05.2010
Some spiral galaxies are seen almost sideways. NGC 3190, one such galaxy, is the largest member of the Hickson 44 Group, one of the nearer groups of galaxies to our own Local Group of galaxies. Pictured above, finely textured dust lanes surround the brightly glowing center of this picturesque spiral.
![Скопление галактик в Волосах Вероники](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/05/03/0001244906/comacluster_rowe.preview.jpg)
2.05.2010
Almost every object in the above photograph is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured above is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies. Each of these galaxies houses...
![Рука пульсара](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/05/04/0001244915/b1509_cxc_c.preview.jpg)
1.05.2010
As far as pulsars go, PSR B1509-58 appears young. Light from the supernova explosion that gave birth to it would have first reached Earth some 1,700 years ago. The magnetized, 20 kilometer-diameter neutron star spins 7 times per second, a cosmic dynamo that powers a wind of charged particles.
![Марс в колыбели](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/30/0001244866/MarsandM44ambrose-60S-900.preview.jpg)
30.04.2010
At opposition in late January, Mars shone very brightly in planet Earth's night sky, among the stars of the constellation Cancer the Crab. Since then the Red Planet has been fading, but still lingers in Cancer during April and May.
![Галактика NGC 4731 из скопления Вирго](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/29/0001244852/NGC4731_leshin900.preview.jpg)
29.04.2010
Barred spiral galaxy NGC 4731 lies some 65 million light-years away. The lovely island universe resides in the large Virgo cluster of galaxies. Colors in this well-composed, cosmic portrait, highlight plentiful, young, bluish star clusters along the galaxy's sweeping spiral arms.
![Заход Солнца над золотым морем](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/28/0001244842/2010-04-17_C_IMG_0949_w900.preview.jpg)
28.04.2010
On April 17, the sky was clear and the Sun's colour was spectacular as night approached. This striking telescopic view even captures the Sun's swollen and distorted shape from the southern coast of the UK.
![Завывание — таинственный звук из глубин океана](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/27/0001244787/bloop_noaa_big.preview.jpg)
27.04.2010
What created this strange sound in Earth's Pacific Ocean? Pictured above is a visual representation of a loud and unusual sound, dubbed a Bloop, captured by deep sea microphones in 1997. In the above graph, time is shown on the horizontal axis, deep pitch is shown on the vertical axis, and brightness designates loudness.
![Пылевые столбы туманности Киля](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/26/0001244771/carina08_hst.preview.jpg)
26.04.2010
Inside the head of this interstellar monster is a star that is slowly destroying it. The monster, on the right, is actually an inanimate pillar of gas and dust that measures over a light year in length.
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