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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Планета вне Солнечной системы?](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192857/tmr1planet_hst_big.preview.jpg)
29.05.1998
This infrared Hubble Space Telescope view may contain the first ever direct image of a planet outside our own solar system. The picture shows a very young double star located about 450 light-years away toward the constellation of Taurus.
![Послесвечение](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192856/after971214_sax_big.preview.gif)
28.05.1998
This sequence of three false color X-ray pictures from the Italian/Dutch BeppoSAX satellite follows the fading glow from a gamma-ray burster. This burster triggered orbiting gamma-ray observatories on December 14, 1997 and within 6.5 hours the sensitive X-ray cameras onboard BeppoSAX had been turned to record the first image (left) of the afterglow.
![Магнетар](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192855/magnetar_mallozzi_big.preview.jpg)
27.05.1998
What do you call a neutron star with a super-strong magnetic field? You guessed it ... a Magnetar. Imagine a star with more mass than the sun, the density of a neutron, and a magnetic field about a thousand trillion (a one followed by 15 zeroes) times stronger than Earth's.
![Квадратное Солнце](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192854/squaresun_tp_big.preview.jpg)
26.05.1998
Isn't the Sun round? Yes, but in the above picture, the Earth's atmosphere makes it appear almost square. Here a layer of air near the Earth was so warm it acted like a giant lens, creating increasingly distorted paths for sunlight to reach the camera.
![M83: спиральная галактика с перемычкой](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192853/m83_wk_big.preview.gif)
25.05.1998
M83 is a bright spiral galaxy that can be found with a small telescope in the constellation of Hydra. M83 is a member of the Centaurus group of galaxies, a nearby group dominated by the massive galaxy Centaurus A. It takes light about 15 million years to reach us from M83.
![Флот высоких энергий](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192852/heao_fleet_big.preview.gif)
24.05.1998
Looking like a fleet of futuristic starcruisers, NASA's highly successful series of High Energy Astrophysical Observatory (HEAO) spacecraft appear poised over planet Earth. Labeled A, B, and C in this vintage illustration, the spacebased telescopes were known as HEAO-1, HEAO-2, and HEAO-3 respectively.
![7 тысяч звезд и Млечный Путь](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192851/milkyway_lund_big.preview.gif)
23.05.1998
This panorama view of the sky is really a drawing. It was made in the 1950s under the supervision of astronomer Knut Lundmark at the Lund Observatory in Sweden. To create the picture, draftsmen...
![Центр галактики Кентавр A](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192850/cena_wfpc2.preview.jpg)
22.05.1998
A fantastic jumble of young blue star clusters, gigantic glowing gas clouds, and imposing dark dust lanes surrounds the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A. This mosaic of Hubble Space Telescope images taken in blue, green, and red light has been processed to present a natural color picture of this cosmic maelstrom.
![Яркая комета СОХО](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192849/soho98j1_horn_big.preview.jpg)
21.05.1998
Discovered this month with an orbiting solar observatory, bright Comet SOHO has now emerged from the Sun's glare. This telephoto picture of the new naked-eye comet was taken by astrophotographer Michael Horn after sunset in the western twilight above Lake Samsonvale, Brisbane, Australia on May 18. The comet is seen in the constellation Orion.
![Открытие кометы СОХО (1998 J1)](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192848/comet1998_soho_big.preview.jpg)
20.05.1998
Staring at the Sun from a vantage point in space (Kids, don't try this at home!), the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has enabled the discovery of much about our closest star. It has also been used to discover about 50 comets.
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