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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Рассеянное скопление NGC 6520: вид в телескоп CFHT](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/22/0001178494/GCbulge_cfht.preview.jpg)
22.07.2002
Did you ever have a day when it felt like a dark cloud was following you around? For the open cluster of stars NGC 6520, every day is like this. On the left of the above picture are many of NGC 6520's bright blue stars.
![Близкая спиральная галактика NGC 4945](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/22/0001178489/ngc4945_mgi.preview.jpg)
21.07.2002
For such a close galaxy, NGC 4945 is easy to miss. NGC 4945 is a spiral galaxy in the Centaurus Group of galaxies, located only six times farther away than the prominent Andromeda Galaxy. The thin disk galaxy is oriented nearly edge-on, however, and shrouded in dark dust.
![Следы человека в другом мире](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/22/0001178487/moontv_apollo11.preview.jpg)
20.07.2002
On July 20th, 1969, humans first set foot on the Moon. Taken from a window of their Apollo 11 lunar module, the Eagle, this picture shows the footprints in the powdery lunar soil made by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
![Считая звезды на инфракрасном небе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/22/0001178485/allsky_2massstars_c.preview.jpg)
19.07.2002
The bulging center of our Milky Way Galaxy, dark cosmic clouds, the thin galactic plane, and even nearby galaxies are easy to spot in this sky view. But each pixel in the digital image is actually based on star counts alone -- as derived from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) database.
![Группа солнечных пятен номер 30](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/18/0001178381/ar0030_sohomdi.preview.jpg)
18.07.2002
The solar active region designated number 0030 is now appearing on the visible hemisphere of the closest star. Dwarfed by the Sun's disk, the group of sunspots which make up region 30 actually cover an enormous area -- nearly 10 times the size of Earth.
![Область звездообразования RCW38 в обзоре 2MASS](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/18/0001178382/rcw38_2mass.preview.jpg)
17.07.2002
The star cluster in RCW38 was hiding. Looking at the star forming region RCW38 will not normally reveal most of the stars in this cluster. The reason is that the open cluster is so young that it is still shrouded in thick dust that absorbs visible light.
![Удаляясь от Меркурия](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/16/0001178328/mercuryoutbound_mariner10.preview.jpg)
16.07.2002
After just passing Mercury, the robot spacecraft Mariner 10 looked back. The above picture is what it saw. Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is heavily cratered much like Earth's Moon.
![Проксима Центавра: ближайшая звезда](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/15/0001178281/proximacen1_aao.preview.jpg)
15.07.2002
What is the closest star to our Sun? It is Proxima Centauri, the nearest member of the Alpha Centauri triple star system. Light takes only 4.22 years to reach us from Proxima Centauri. This...
![Крабовидная туманность: вид в телескоп VLT](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/15/0001178279/crab_vlt.preview.jpg)
14.07.2002
The Crab Nebula, filled with mysterious filaments, is the result of a star that was seen to explode in 1054 AD. This spectacular supernova explosion was recorded by Chinese and (quite probably) Anasazi Indian astronomers.
![Аполлон 12: стереофотография окрестностей кратера Сервейор](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/15/0001178276/as12stereo_c2.preview.jpg)
13.07.2002
This weekend's stereo picture finds Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad standing on the lunar surface near the southern rim of Surveyor Crater in November of 1969. With red/blue glasses you can gaze beyond the spacesuited Conrad across the magnificent desolation of the Moon's Ocean of Storms.
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