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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Два хвоста кометы Веста](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178965/comet_west.preview.gif)
26.08.1995
Here Comet West is seen showing two enormous tails that wrap around the sky. The ion tale of a comet usually appears more blue and always points away from the Sun. The dust tail trailing the comet's nucleus is the most prominent.
![Мировой исследователь](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178947/magellan_sc.preview.gif)
25.08.1995
Ferdinand Magellan was a world explorer. Many consider him the greatest navigator of Europe's 16th century age of sea going exploration and credit his expedition with the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. NASA...
![Радарные наблюдения планеты Земля](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/22/0001193095/rainier.preview.gif)
24.08.1995
This image of Mt. Rainier, Washington USA, planet Earth, was produced by the Spaceborne Radar Laboratory which flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994. Radar, short for RAdio Detection And Ranging...
![Венерианский клещ](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/12/10/0001218455/venus_tick.preview.gif)
23.08.1995
Data from the Magellan spacecraft has shown the Face of Venus to contain a host of volcanic features. This image shows an example of a fairly common type of venusian volcanic feature. Known...
![Венера предстает в истинном свете](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178944/magellan_venus1.preview.gif)
22.08.1995
The surface of Venus is perpetually covered by a veil of thick clouds and remains hidden from even the powerful telescopic eyes of earth-based astronomers. However, using an imaging radar technique, the Magellan spacecraft...
![Летающий айсберг](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178962/comet_halleynuc1.preview.gif)
21.08.1995
A comet nucleus, formed from the primordial stuff of the solar system, resembles a very dirty iceberg. Orbiting far from our Sun, it can remain frozen, preserved for billions of years. Occasionally, a chance gravitational encounter will alter this distant orbit and send the nucleus plummeting towards the inner solar system.
![Появление кометы Хейла-Боппа](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178943/comet_hb1.preview.gif)
20.08.1995
The pictured fuzzy patch may become one of the most spectacular comets this century. Although it is very hard to predict how bright a comet will become, Comet Hale-Bopp, named for its discoverers...
![Солнечная система, увиденная "Вояджером"](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178942/solsys_vg1.preview.gif)
19.08.1995
After taking its spectacular pictures of the outer solar system planets, Voyager 1 looked back at six planets from the inner solar system. Here Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, were all visible across the sky.
![Плутон - замороженная планета](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178941/pluto_hst.preview.gif)
18.08.1995
The Hubble Space Telescope imaged Pluto and its moon Charon in 1994. Pluto is usually the most distant planet from the Sun but because of its elliptic orbit Pluto crossed inside of Neptune's orbit in 1979 and will cross back out again in 1999.
![Нептун - большой голубой гигант](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178940/neptune_vg2.preview.gif)
17.08.1995
This picture was taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 - the only spacecraft ever to visit Neptune. Neptune will be the farthest planet from the Sun until 1999, when the elliptical orbit of Pluto will cause it to once again resume this status.
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