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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Мессье 76](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/06/0001217359/Messier76_seip_smallcc.preview.jpg)
1.11.2006
"Nebula at the right foot of Andromeda ... " begins the description for the 76th object in Charles Messier's 18th century Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters. In fact, M76 is one of the fainter objects on the Messier list and is also known by the popular name of the "Little Dumbbell Nebula".
![Панорама Макмурдо на Марсе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/02/0001217292/mcmurdopan_spirit.preview.jpg)
31.10.2006
This was Spirit's view on Martian-day 1,000 of its 90-Martian-day mission. The robotic Spirit rover has stayed alive so long on Mars that it needed a place to wait out the cold and dim Martian winter.
![SH2 136: Ужасающая туманность](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/10/31/0001217257/sh2136_kpno.preview.jpg)
30.10.2006
The dark nebula SH2-136 appears to be celebrating Halloween all of the time. The complex process of star formation create dust clouds of many shapes and sizes -- it is human perception that might identify a ghoulish creature, on the right of the above image, chasing humans.
![Месяц Венеры и месяц Луны](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/10/31/0001217256/venusmoon_eder.preview.jpg)
29.10.2006
There's something behind these clouds. Those faint graceful arcs, upon inspection, are actually far, far in the distance. They are the Earth's Moon and the planet Venus. Both the Moon and Venus are bright enough to be seen during the day, and both are quite capable of showing a crescent phase.
![Дуновение Солнца](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/01/0001217278/suncme_soho.preview.jpg)
29.10.2006
Our Earth endures bursts of particles from the Sun. On 1997 April 7, at 10 am (EDT), ground monitors of the SOHO spacecraft, which continually monitors the Sun, noticed a weak spot in the solar corona was buckling again, this time letting loose a large, explosive Coronal Mass Ejection (CME).
![Выброс на комете SWAN](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/02/0001217293/swan_candy_c69.preview.jpg)
28.10.2006
Near its closest approach to planet Earth, comet SWAN (C/2006 M4) brightened unexpectedly earlier this week, becoming visible to naked-eye observers under dark night skies. Telescopic observers also noticed dramatic changes in the comet's colorful coma and tail, seen in this view recorded on October 25th.
![Паук и муха](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/10/27/0001217172/ngc1931ic417_cannistra_c50.preview.jpg)
27.10.2006
Star clusters and nebulae abound in the ancient northern constellation Auriga - a region that includes the interesting pair NGC 1931 (lower left) and IC 417. In this gorgeous color image, an imaginative eye toward the expansive IC 417 and diminutive NGC 1931 suggests a cosmic spider and fly.
![Крабовидная туманность](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/10/26/0001217143/crab_composite_cx.preview.jpg)
26.10.2006
The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, expanding debris from the death explosion of a massive star.
![Помогите найти межзвездную пыль](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/10/25/0001217109/isgrain_stardust_big.preview.jpg)
25.10.2006
What caused that hole? The hole in question appears as a small dark circle on the far right. If the above image of aerogel seems dull and uninteresting, then welcome to one aspect of real world science.
![Столкновение галактик Антенны](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/10/24/0001217093/antennae_hst.preview.jpg)
24.10.2006
Two galaxies are squaring off in Corvus and here are the latest pictures. When two galaxies collide, however, the stars that compose them usually do not. This is because galaxies are mostly empty space and, however bright, stars only take up only a small amount of that space.
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