![]() |
Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![SIRTF: дайте имя этому спутнику](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199935/sirtf_lmms_big.preview.jpg)
19.09.2001
NASA is preparing to launch its next Great Observatory in 2002, but it does not yet have a proper name. Can you help? Currently referred to only as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), NASA seeks to add something more significant.
![В плену у Марса](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199936/marspan_ud.preview.jpg)
18.09.2001
Just after landing on Mars in 1997, the robotic Mars Pathfinder main station took a quick first look around. This insurance panorama was taken even before the Sagan Memorial Station camera was raised to its two-meter-high perch. The full view is best seen by slowly scrolling to the right.
![Юго-западная Андромеда](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199937/m31_subaru.preview.jpg)
17.09.2001
This new image composite of the southwest region of M31 from the Subaru Telescope shows many stars, nebulae, and star clusters never before resolved. An older population of stars near Andromeda's center causes the yellow hue visible on the upper right. Young blue stars stand out in the spiral arms on the lower left.
![Плавленная поверхность Венеры](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199938/venus4_mag.preview.jpg)
16.09.2001
If you could look at Venus with radar eyes - this is what you might see. This computer reconstruction of the surface of Venus was created from data from the Magellan spacecraft. Magellan orbited Venus and used radar to map our neighboring planet's surface between 1990 and 1994.
![Затмившаяся Луна в инфракрасном свете](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199939/lunarecl_msx_c1.preview.jpg)
15.09.2001
The total lunar eclipse of September 1996 disappointed many observers in North America who were cursed with cloudy skies. However, the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) satellite had a spectacular view from Earth orbit and SPIRIT III, an onboard infrared telescope, was used to repeatedly image the moon during the eclipse.
![Холодная пыль в туманности Орла](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199940/eagleneb_iso_c1.preview.jpg)
14.09.2001
Stars are born in M16's Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery 7,000 light-years from Earth toward the constellation Serpens. The striking nebula's star forming pillars of gas and dust are familiar to astronomers from images at visible wavelengths, but this false-color picture shows off the nebula in infrared light.
![Рентгеновское изображение пульсара в Циркуле](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199941/cirpulsar_cxo.preview.jpg)
13.09.2001
A bizarre stellar corpse 19,000 light-years from Earth, pulsar PSR B1509-58 beckons from the small southern constellation of Circinus. Like its cousin at the heart of the Crab nebula, the Circinus pulsar is a rapidly spinning, magnetized neutron star.
![Зодиакальный свет и ложный рассвет](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199942/zodimk_concam.preview.jpg)
12.09.2001
An unusual triangle of light will be particularly bright near the eastern horizon before sunrise during the next two months for observers in Earth's northern hemisphere. Once considered a false dawn, this triangle of light is actually Zodiacal Light, light reflected from interplanetary dust particles.
![Панорама спиральной галактики NGC 3310](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199943/ngc3310b_hst.preview.jpg)
11.09.2001
The party is still going on in spiral galaxy NGC 3310. Roughly 100 million years ago, NGC 3310 likely collided with a smaller galaxy causing the large spiral galaxy to light up with a tremendous burst of star formation.
![Мерцание в центре Галактики — признак черной дыры](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199944/sgraflare_chandra_big.preview.jpg)
10.09.2001
Why would the center of our Galaxy flicker? Many astronomers believe the only credible answer involves a black hole. During observations of Sagittarius A* with the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, the bright X-ray source at the very center of our Milky Way brightened dramatically for a few minutes.
|
January February March April May June July August September October November December |