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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
!["Луна"-9: первый аппарат мягкой посадки](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/20/0001180514/luna_9_unk.preview.gif)
25.08.1996
The Luna 9 spacecraft above performed the first soft landing on another planetary body. Following a series of failures, the Soviet probe touched down in the Moon's Oceanus Procellarum region February 3, 1966.
![Почему квазар 1229+204 такой яркий?](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/20/0001180513/qso1229_hst_big.preview.gif)
24.08.1996
What causes the center of this barred spiral galaxy to light up brighter than almost anything in the universe? The quasar there is a good fraction of the way across our observable universe...
![NGC 3293: яркое молодое рассеянное звездное скопление](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/19/0001180500/ngc3293_aat.preview.gif)
23.08.1996
Hot Blue stars shine brightly in this beautiful, recently formed galactic or "open" star cluster. Open cluster NGC 3293 is located in the constellation Carina, lies at a distance of about 8000 light years, and has a particularly high abundance of these young bright stars.
![Arp 230: две спиральные галактики в одной?](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/19/0001180499/arp230_hst_big.preview.jpg)
22.08.1996
Is this one galaxy or two? Analysis of Arp 230 has shown evidence that this seemingly single spiral galaxy is actually the result of the recent collision of two spiral galaxies. The slow motion collision took place over about 100 million years and induced a burst of star formation that has begun to subside.
![Песочные часы туманности Лагуна крупным планом](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/19/0001180498/hourglass_hst.preview.gif)
21.08.1996
In the central part of the Lagoon Nebula lies the above pictured Hourglass Nebula. In this region of recent star formation, obscuring dark lanes of dust permeate the red-glowing hydrogen gas. Blocking some...
![Туманность Лагуна крупным планом](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/19/0001180496/lagoon_hst_big.preview.jpg)
20.08.1996
Ribbons of red-glowing gas and dark dust surround massive young stars in this close-up of the Lagoon Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Lagoon Nebula is relatively close and bright - it appears larger than the Full Moon and is visible even without a telescope.
![Добро пожаловать на Землю](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/19/0001180494/earth_1_apollo17.preview.gif)
19.08.1996
Welcome to Planet Earth, the third planet from a star named the Sun. The Earth is shaped like a sphere and composed mostly of rock. Over 70 percent of the Earth's surface is water. The planet has a relatively thin atmosphere composed mostly of nitrogen and oxygen.
![Квазар для измерения расстояний](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/19/0001180493/qsomile_hst_big.preview.jpg)
18.08.1996
Here is a rather typical quasar. But since quasars are so unusual it is quite atypical of most familiar objects. Of the two bright objects in the center of this photo, the quasar is on the left.
![Метеорит с Марса](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/19/0001180488/meteorite_mars_big.preview.jpg)
17.08.1996
The famous Martian meteorite pictured above houses microscopic structures interpreted by many as fossils of ancient Martian life. How do you find a meteorite from Mars here on Earth? On a typical day, several large rocks fall to Earth from space, usually winding up in the oceans.
![NGC 604: гигантский звездный инкубатор в M33](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/19/0001180487/ngc604_hst_big.preview.jpg)
16.08.1996
The nebula cataloged as NGC 604 is a giant star forming region, 1500 light years across, in the nearby spiral galaxy, M33. Seen here in a snapshot by the Hubble Space Telescope, over 200 newly formed, hot, massive, stars are scattered within a cavern-like, gaseous, interstellar cloud.
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