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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Облако Дискавери](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/08/0001244461/STS131_nguyen900.preview.jpg)
8.04.2010
The space shuttle orbiter Discovery is now docked with the International Space Station, some 350 kilometers above planet Earth. Last Monday, its launch to orbit was a beautiful one as it rose into clear, predawn skies at 6:21am EDT from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A.
![Венера и Меркурий на западном небе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/07/0001244456/VenusMercurioGallegos_Biziola900.preview.jpg)
7.04.2010
In this twilight skyview, a windmill stands in silent witness to a lovely pairing of planets in the west. The picture was recorded on April 5 from Gallegos del Campo, Zamora, Spain. Venus (left) and Mercury (right) are near their much anticpated conjunction in the early evening sky.
![Мех лисицы, Единорог, Рождественская елка](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/06/0001244433/foxfur_hepburn.preview.jpg)
6.04.2010
What do the following things have in common: a cone, the fur of a fox, and a Christmas tree? Answer: they all occur in the constellation of the unicorn (Monoceros). Pictured above...
![Обработанный Прометей](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/06/0001244432/prometheus2_cassini.preview.jpg)
5.04.2010
What does Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus really look like? The raw images from the robotic Cassini spacecraft's January flyby of the small moon showed tantalizing clues on grainy images, but now that the Cassini team has digitally remastered these images, many more details have come out.
![Пояс Венеры над Лунной долиной](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/04/0001244402/beltofvenus_churchill.preview.jpg)
4.04.2010
Although you've surely seen it, you might not have noticed it. During a cloudless twilight, just before sunrise or after sunset, part of the atmosphere above the horizon appears slightly off-color, slightly pink.
![NGC 602 и то, что за ним](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/03/0001244397/ngc602_hst_large900.preview.jpg)
3.04.2010
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602. Surrounded by natal gas and dust, NGC 602 is featured in this stunning Hubble image of the region.
![Ложная Луна](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/02/0001244343/paraselene_100301_ladanyi900.preview.jpg)
2.04.2010
Nestled in the Austrian Alps, frozen Lake Ossiach stretches across the foreground of this serene view. Recorded on March 1, the night sky includes a nearly full Moon and bright planet Saturn seen through thin clouds near picture center. It also includes a remarkably bright and colorful moondog or paraselene at the left.
1.04.2010
In 2009, space missions revealed tantalizing signs of water on or near the lunar surface, once thought of as a dry and desolate environment. But researchers are now offering this archival picture as further evidence that humans might one day be able to use the Moon's newly discovered resource to directly quench their thirst.
![Миллионы звезд в Омега Центавра](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/31/0001244332/ngc5139_100319lehman900.preview.jpg)
31.03.2010
Featured in the sharp telescopic image, globular star cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) is some 15,000 light-years away and 150 light-years in diameter. Packed with about 10 million stars much older than...
![NGC 1313: необычная галактика со вспышкой звездообразования](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/30/0001244317/ngc1313_gendler.preview.jpg)
30.03.2010
Why is this galaxy so discombobulated? Usually, galaxies this topsy-turvy result from a recent collision with a neighboring galaxy. Spiral galaxy NGC 1313, however, appears to be alone. Brightly lit with new and blue massive stars, star formation appears so rampant in NGC 1313 that it has been labeled a starburst galaxy.
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