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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Эта и Замочная скважина в туманности Киля](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/16/0001212346/KeyholeMapped_moore_c2.preview.jpg)
16.03.2006
South is toward the top in this colorful close-up view of the Great Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), famous star-forming region of the southern sky. Covering an area surrounding the dusty Keyhole Nebula (NGC 3324)...
![Холм МакКул на Марсе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/15/0001212304/paigepan_spirit.preview.jpg)
15.03.2006
You can make it. Winter is rapidly advancing on the southern hemisphere on Mars, and the lack of sunlight could be dangerous unless you find a good place to hibernate. There it is ahead: McCool Hill.
![CG4: разрушенная кометарная глобула](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/14/0001212257/cg4_noao.preview.jpg)
14.03.2006
Can a gas cloud eat a galaxy? It's not even close. The odd looking "creature" in the center of 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.
!["Z-машина" устанавливает неожиданный рекорд температуры на Земле](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/13/0001212241/zmachine_sandia.preview.jpg)
13.03.2006
Why is this plasma so hot? Physicists aren't sure. What is known for sure is that the Z Machine running at Sandia National Laboratories created a plasma that was unexpectedly hot. The plasma...
![Шаровое скопление M3 в телескоп WIYN](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/13/0001212240/m3_noao.preview.jpg)
12.03.2006
This huge ball of stars predates our Sun. Long before humankind evolved, before dinosaurs roamed, and even before our Earth existed, ancient globs of stars condensed and orbited a young Milky Way Galaxy.
![Цвета кометы Поймански](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/13/0001212239/c2006a1_blockGabany_c53.preview.jpg)
11.03.2006
Comet Pojmanski flew by planet Earth last weekend on a surprise trip through the inner solar system. Then an easy binocular target for morning skygazers, Pojmanski ultimately showed off a long tail, but it also presented some lovely green-blue hues as gas molecules in its tenuous coma and tail fluoresced in the sunlight.
![Энцелад и поиск воды](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/10/0001212186/enceladus_cassini_PIA07800c16.preview.jpg)
10.03.2006
Based on data from Cassini spacecraft instruments, researchers are now arguing that liquid water reservoirs exist only tens of meters below the surface of Saturn's small (500 kilometer diameter) but active moon Enceladus. The exciting new results center around towering jets and plumes of material erupting from the moon's surface.
![Триплет Льва](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/13/0001212245/TrioLeo_verschatseNRGBc52.preview.jpg)
9.03.2006
This popular group is famous as the Leo Triplet - a gathering of three magnificent galaxies in one field of view. Crowd pleasers when imaged with even modest telescopes, these galaxies can be introduced individually as NGC 3628 (top), M66 (bottom left), and M65 (bottom right). All three are large spiral galaxies.
![Уменьшение Антарктической ледяной шапки](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/08/0001212137/iceberg_nasa.preview.jpg)
8.03.2006
Is the continent at the end of the Earth slowly melting? For millions of years, Antarctica, the frozen continent at the southern end of planet Earth, has been encased in a gigantic sheet of ice. Recently, the orbiting robotic GRACE satellite has been taking sensitive measurements of the gravity for the entire Earth, including Antarctica.
![Близкая сверхновая в спиральной галактике M100](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/07/0001212095/m100_vlt.preview.jpg)
7.03.2006
One of the nearer supernovas of recent years was discovered last month in the bright nearby galaxy M100. The supernova, dubbed SN 2006X, is still near its maximum brightness and visible with a telescope...
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