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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Рентгеновский вид Лебедя-A](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/30/0001166974/cyga_cxo_big.preview.jpg)
10.11.2000
Amazingly detailed, this false-color x-ray image is centered on the galaxy Cygnus A. Recorded by the orbiting Chandra Observatory, Cygnus A is seen here as a spectacular high energy x-ray source. But it is actually more famous at the low energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum as one of the brightest celestial radio sources.
![Космический рентгеновский фон](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/01/06/0001164912/lockman_xmm.preview.jpg)
9.11.2000
Early on, x-ray satellites revealed a surprising cosmic background glow of x-rays and astronomers have struggled to understand its origin. Now, peering through a hole in the obscuring gas and dust...
![Ночное небо октября](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163947/auroct_wadeclark_big.preview.jpg)
8.11.2000
With brilliant Venus above the western horizon at sunset and Jupiter and Saturn high in the east by early evening, November's night sky is filled with bright planets. October's sky featured bright planets as well and, triggered by the active Sun, some lovely auroral displays.
![Остаток сверхновой в Туманности в Парусах](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162400/gum_gleason_big.preview.jpg)
7.11.2000
Because the Gum Nebula is the closest supernova remnant, it is actually hard to see. Spanning 40 degrees across the sky, the nebula is so large and faint it is easily lost in the din of a bright and complex background.
![Небеса на земле](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162395/mwhorizon_kurita_big.preview.jpg)
6.11.2000
If sometimes it appears that the entire Milky Way Galaxy is raining down on your head, do not despair. It happens twice a day. As the Sun rises in the East, wonders of the night sky become less bright than the sunlight scattered by our own Earth's atmosphere, and so fade from view.
![Поглощение Юпитером кометы Шумейкер-Леви 9](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163946/sl9gevol_hst_big.preview.jpg)
5.11.2000
What happens when a comet encounters a planet? If the planet has a rocky surface, a huge impact feature will form. A giant planet like Jupiter, however, is mostly gas. When Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck Jupiter in 1994, each piece was swallowed into the vast Jovian atmosphere.
![Аполлон-12: автопортрет](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162262/bean_conrad_big.preview.jpg)
4.11.2000
Is it art? In November of 1969, Apollo 12 astronaut-photographer Charles "Pete" Conrad recorded this masterpiece while documenting colleague Alan Bean's lunar soil collection activities on the Oceanus Procellarum. The image is dramatic and stark. Bean is faceless.
![Новые спутники для Сатурна](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162403/saturnnewmoon_eso_big.preview.jpg)
3.11.2000
Which planet has the most moons? For now, it's Saturn. Four newly discovered satellites bring the ringed planet's total to twenty-two, just edging out Uranus' twenty-one for the most known moons in the solar system. Of course, the newfound Saturnian satellites are not large and photogenic.
![Столкновение галактик в NGC 6745](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162076/ngc6745_hst_big.preview.jpg)
2.11.2000
Galaxies don't normally look like this. NGC 6745 actually shows the results of two galaxies that have been colliding for only hundreds of millions of years. Just off the above photograph to the lower right is the smaller galaxy, moving away.
![Двойной астероид 90 Антиопа](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162410/antiope_merline.preview.gif)
1.11.2000
This eight-frame animation is based on the first ever images of a double asteroid! Formerly thought to be a single enormous chunk of rock, asteroid 90 Antiope resides in the solar system's main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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