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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Камелопардалиды и МКС](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/25/0001312643/ISSCamelopardalidsLMalcolmPark950.preview.jpg)
25.05.2014
From a camp on the northern shores of the Great Lake Erie, three short bright meteor streaks were captured in this composited night skyscape. Recorded over the early morning hours of May 24, the meteors are illusive Camelopardalids.
![Окологоризонтальная дуга над Огайо](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/25/0001312641/circumhorizontalarc_sladoje_960.preview.jpg)
24.05.2014
Why would clouds appear to be different colors? The reason here is that ice crystals in distant cirrus clouds are acting like little floating prisms. Sometimes known as a fire rainbow for its flame-like appearance, a circumhorizon arc lies parallel to the horizon.
![Комета - цель Розетты](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/23/0001312280/PIA18376c900.preview.gif)
23.05.2014
The Rosetta spacecraft captured this remarkable series of 9 frames between March 27 and May 4, as it closed from 5 million to 2 million kilometers of its target comet. Cruising along...
![Гало туманности NGC 6164](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/22/0001312202/NGC6164V2r950_PughStevenson.preview.jpg)
22.05.2014
Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the Sun. Seen at the center of the cosmic cloud, the star is a mere 3 to 4 million years old.
![Грозовое облако суперячейка формируется над Вайомингом](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/21/0001312074/supersell-wyoming.preview.png)
21.05.2014
How do supercell storm clouds form? Pictured above is a time-lapse video taken last Sunday detailing the formation of one such violent supercell in eastern Wyoming, USA. Starting as part of a large and dark thunderstorm complex, the supercell comes together along with a large rotating updraft of air known as a mesocyclone.
![В центре спиральной галактики M61](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/20/0001311891/m61_hubble_960.preview.jpg)
20.05.2014
M61 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. Visible in M61 are a host of features common to spiral galaxies: bright spiral arms, a central bar, dust lanes, and bright knots of stars. M61, also known as NGC 4303, in similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy.
![Метеоры, самолеты и Галактика над Брайс-каньоном](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/19/0001311785/meteorsbryce_lane_960.preview.jpg)
19.05.2014
Sometimes land and sky are both busy and beautiful. The landscape pictured in the foreground encompasses Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA, famous for its many interesting rock structures eroded over millions of years.
![Большое Красное Пятно на Юпитере от Вояджера-1](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/18/0001311682/redspot_voyager1_960.preview.jpg)
18.05.2014
What will become of Jupiter's Great Red Spot? Recorded as shrinking since the 1930s, the rate of the Great Red Spot's size appears to have accelerated just in the past few years. A hurricane larger than Earth, the Great Red Spot has been raging at least as long as telescopes could see it.
![Юпитер и уменьшающееся Большое Красное Пятно](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/17/0001311572/HubbleJGRS_900.preview.jpg)
17.05.2014
Gas giant Jupiter is the solar system's largest world with about 320 times the mass of planet Earth. It's also known for a giant swirling storm system, the Great Red Spot, featured in this sharp Hubble image from April 21.
![Марсианская аналемма от Оппортьюнити](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/16/0001311396/marsAnalemma_b_900.preview.jpg)
16.05.2014
Staring up into the martian sky, the Opportunity rover captured an image at 11:02 AM local mean time nearly every 3rd sol, or martian day, for 1 martian year. Of course, the result...
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