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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![ROSAT исследует небо в рентгеновских лучах](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166706/xallsky_rosat110.preview.jpg)
19.08.2000
Launched in 1990, the orbiting ROSAT observatory explored the Universe by viewing the entire sky in x-rays -- photons with about 1,000 times more energy than visible light. This ROSAT survey produced the sharpest, most sensitive image of the x-ray sky to date.
![Рентгеновское излучение галактик Антенны](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/06/30/0001214707/antennagal_cxo_big.preview.jpg)
18.08.2000
A bevy of black holes and neutron stars shine as bright, point-like sources against bubbles of million degree gas in this false-color x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory. The striking picture shows...
![Магнитная буря на Mount Megantic](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166704/aurora2_gauthier.preview.jpg)
17.08.2000
Plasma from the Sun and debris from a comet both collided with planet Earth last Saturday morning triggering magnetic storms and a meteor shower in a dazzling atmospheric spectacle. The debris stream from comet...
![Необычная гигантская галактика NGC 1316](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166725/ngc1316_vlt_big.preview.jpg)
16.08.2000
Can unusual giant galaxy NGC 1316 help calibrate the universe? Quite possibly -- if it turns out this atypical galaxy is composed of typical stars. NGC 1316, pictured above, is most obviously strange because...
![Солнечный спектр](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166724/solarspectrum_noao.preview.jpg)
15.08.2000
It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Shown above are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device.
![Каскад Кембла](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166701/kemblescascade_macdonald_big.preview.jpg)
14.08.2000
A picturesque chain of unrelated stars is visible with strong binoculars towards the constellation of Camelopardalis. Known as Kemble's Cascade, the asterism contains about 20 stars nearly in a row stretching over five times the width of a full moon.
![Обреченная звезда Eta Carinae](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/17/0001168983/etacarinae2_hst.preview.jpg)
13.08.2000
Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when - it may be next year, it may be one million years from now. Eta Carinae's mass - about 100 times greater than our Sun - makes it an excellent candidate for a full blown su
![Один из метеоров потока Персеид](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166699/perseid3_sk_big.preview.jpg)
12.08.2000
This weekend, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its maximum. Grains of cosmic sand and gravel shed from Comet Swift-Tuttle will streak across the sky as they vaporize during entry into Earth's atmosphere. The Perseids result from the yearly
![Фрагменты кометы LINEAR](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166698/cometlinear_eso_big.preview.jpg)
11.08.2000
What do you call a bunch of comet fragments anyway ... a flock, a covey, a swarm? The question is definitely relevant to comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4 LINEAR) whose nucleus apparently fragmented late last month during its first trip through the inner solar system.
![Другие миры и HD 38529](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166697/hd38529art_cook.preview.jpg)
10.08.2000
After the latest round of discovery announcements, the list of known worlds of distant suns has grown to 50. While extrasolar planet discoveries are sure to continue, none - so far - points clearly to another planetary system like our own. Take, for example, the newly discovered parent star HD38529.
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