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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Стая звезд](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/09/08/0001229440/whitebirds640_rhopkins.preview.jpg)
6.09.2008
Only a few stars can be found within ten light-years of our lonely Sun, situated near an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. But if the Sun were found within one of our galaxy's star clusters, thousands of stars might occupy a similar space.
![Дорога к Млечному Пути](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/09/05/0001229405/uludag_tezel_c800.preview.jpg)
5.09.2008
In search of planets and the summer Milky Way, astronomer Tunç Tezel took an evening road trip. Last Saturday, after driving the winding road up Uludag, a mountain near Bursa, Turkey, he was rewarded by this beautiful skyview to the south.
![Спицы в туманности Улитка](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/09/04/0001229399/HelixNB3RWeb2_goldmanc800.preview.jpg)
4.09.2008
At first glance, the Helix Nebula (aka NGC 7293), looks simple and round. But this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, produced near the end of the life of a sun-like star, is now understood to have a surprisingly complex geometry. Its extended loops and comet-shaped features have been explored in Hubble Space Telescope images.
![31 миллион миль от планеты Земля](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/09/03/0001229393/epoxi4panel800.preview.jpg)
3.09.2008
On July 4th, 2005, the Deep Impact spacecraft directed a probe to impact the nucleus of Comet Tempel 1. Still cruising through the solar system, earlier this year the robotic spacecraft looked back to record a series of images of its home world 31 million miles (50 million kilometers) away.
![NGC 1316: после столкновения галактик](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/09/02/0001229379/ngc1316_pugh.preview.jpg)
2.09.2008
Astronomers turn detectives when trying to figure out the cause of startling sights like NGC 1316. Their investigation indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started, about 100 million years ago, to devour a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor, NGC 1317, just above it.
![CG4: разрушенная кометарная глобула](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/09/01/0001229367/cg4_sidonio.preview.jpg)
1.09.2008
Can a gas cloud grab a galaxy? It's not even close. The "claw" of this odd looking "creature" in the above photo is a gas cloud known as a cometary globule. This globule, however, has ruptured. Cometary globules are typically characterized by dusty heads and elongated tails.
![Затмение над Великой Китайской Стеной](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/09/01/0001229364/tseJiayuguan_simmons_small800.preview.jpg)
31.08.2008
Contrary to the famous myth, you can't see the Great Wall of China from the Moon ... even during a total solar eclipse. But on August 1 you could see the Moon eclipsing the Sun from the Great Wall.
![Вид с Эвереста](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/09/01/0001229368/everest_mackenzie.preview.jpg)
30.08.2008
What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth? To see a full panoramic vista from there, scroll right. Visible are snow peaked mountains near and far, tremendous cliffs, distant plateaus, the tops of clouds, and a dark blue sky. Mt.
![Поколения звезд в W5](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/08/29/0001229328/w5_spitzer_crot800.preview.jpg)
29.08.2008
Giant star forming region W5 is over 200 light-years across and about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. W5's sculpted clouds of cold gas and dust seem to form fantastic shapes in this impressive mosaic of infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
![Первый свет "Ферми"](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/08/28/0001229313/allsky_Fermi_800.preview.jpg)
28.08.2008
Launched on June 11 to explore the universe at extreme energies, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope has been officially renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, in honor of Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), pioneer in high-energy physics.
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