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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Более четкий вид на окутанного дымкой гиганта](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/06/0001231709/jupiter_eso_c720.preview.jpg)
6.11.2008
This dramatic image of Jupiter is touted as the sharpest picture of the entire gas giant ever taken from the ground. The picture was made using a prototype instrument known as MAD (Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator) mounted on one of the European Southern Observatory's 8-meter diameter Very Large Telescope units in Chile.
![На высоте в тысячу семьсот километров над Энцеладом](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/05/0001231689/enceladusupclose_cassini.preview.jpg)
5.11.2008
Above is one of the closest pictures yet obtained of Saturn's ice-spewing moon Enceladus. The image was taken from about 1,700 kilometers up as the robotic Cassini spacecraft zoomed by the fractured ice ball last week.
![Двойная кольцевая галактика Арп 147: вид в телескоп Хаббла](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/05/0001231690/arp147_hst.preview.jpg)
4.11.2008
How could a galaxy become shaped like a ring? Even more strange: how could two? The rim of the blue galaxy pictured on the right shows an immense ring-like structure 30,000 light years in diameter composed of newly formed, extremely bright, massive stars.
![Замечательный кратер с лучами на Меркурии](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/05/0001231691/mercuryrays_messenger.preview.jpg)
3.11.2008
Why does Mercury have so many rayed craters? No one is sure. The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft that is taking unprecedented images as it swoops past the innermost planet has provided dramatic confirmation that Mercury has more rayed craters than Earth's Moon.
![Спикулы: потоки на Солнце](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/02/0001231621/spicules_sst.preview.jpg)
2.11.2008
Imagine a pipe as wide as a state and as long as half the Earth. Now imagine that this pipe is filled with hot gas moving 50,000 kilometers per hour. Further imagine that this pipe is not made of metal but a transparent magnetic field.
![Призрак в восточной части Вуали](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/10/30/0001324607/Veileast-Mortfield-Cancelli_c800.preview.jpg)
1.11.2008
Menacing flying forms and garish colors are a mark of the Halloween season. They also stand out in this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star.
![Ведьма в свете звезд](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/31/0001231557/ic2118_ssro800.preview.jpg)
31.10.2008
By starlight this eerie visage shines in the dark, a crooked profile evoking its popular name, the Witch Head Nebula. In fact, this entrancing telescopic portrait gives the impression the witch has fixed her gaze on Orion's bright supergiant star Rigel.
![Явление Ореола Цефея](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/30/0001231542/s136crop_benintende800.preview.jpg)
30.10.2008
Spooky shapes seem to haunt this starry expanse, drifting through the night in the royal constellation Cepheus. Of course, the shapes are cosmic dust clouds faintly visible in dimly reflected starlight. Far from your...
![Призрак Мираха](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/29/0001231535/mirachs_ayiomamitis_c800.preview.jpg)
29.10.2008
As far as ghosts go, Mirach's Ghost isn't really that scary. In fact, Mirach's Ghost is just a faint, fuzzy galaxy, well known to astronomers, that happens to be seen nearly along the line-of-sight to Mirach, a bright star. Centered in this star field, Mirach is also called Beta Andromedae.
![Туманность Северная Америка](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/28/0001231525/northamerica_gualda.preview.jpg)
28.10.2008
The North America Nebula in the sky can do what most North Americans on Earth cannot -- form stars. Specifically, in analogy to the Earth-confined continent, the bright part that appears as Central America and Mexico is actually a hot bed of gas, dust, and newly formed stars known as the Cygnus Wall.
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