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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Пролетая над Северным полюсом](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163936/northpole_modis_big.preview.jpg)
20.10.2000
Orbiting over the north pole of planet Earth on May 5, the MODIS instrument on-board the Terra spacecraft, recorded this view of the ice cap 700 kilometers below. A radial grid centered on the pole is shown on top of the approximately true color image where each pixel covers about one square kilometer.
![Самый далекий из наблюдавшихся взрывов](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/19/0001167642/grb000131v_vlt_big.preview.gif)
19.10.2000
It happened so far away that common human distance measures are inadequate to describe it. Furthermore, astronomers do not even claim to know exactly what happened. What is known is that satellites across our Solar System reported on 2000 January 31 a tremendous explosion of gamma rays had occurred towards some previously uninteresting direction.
![Стыковочный шпангоут космического корабля Спейс Шаттл](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162432/dockingring_sts92.preview.jpg)
18.10.2000
A space shuttle is again visiting the International Space Station (ISS). The STS-92 crew aboard Discovery have already delivered and installed a truss and a docking port on the growing orbiting space station. The station is being prepared for its first permanent crew, currently scheduled to be launched from Kazakstan on October 30.
![Телескоп Джемини-Север: головная ударная волна вблизи центра Галактики](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162426/gcenter2_gemini_big.preview.jpg)
17.10.2000
What's going on near the center of our Galaxy? Glowing across the electromagnetic spectrum, the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is thought to be home to massive stars, rotating gas rings, and a massive black hole. Now the central Galactic zoo just got larger.
![Пыль и газ вокруг звезды R Южной Короны](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162442/rcoronae_eso_big.preview.jpg)
16.10.2000
Young star R Coronae Australis has a dusty home. The dust is so thick on the upper left of the above photograph that little light from background stars comes through. Thinner dust near the stars reflects light from R Coronae Australis (upper right) and neighbor TY Coronae Australis, giving their surroundings a flowing appearance.
![Шаровое скопление Омега Центавра](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163935/omgcen_uit_big.preview.gif)
15.10.2000
Does an old, red globular cluster have any hot, blue stars? The rightmost picture, taken by the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope in ultraviolet light, shows that indeed it does. Pictured, Omega Centauri is the largest known globular cluster of over 200 in our Galaxy, containing well over a million stars.
![Плоскость Эклиптики](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163934/ecliptic_clem_big.preview.gif)
14.10.2000
The Plane of the Ecliptic is well illustrated in this picture from the 1994 lunar prospecting Clementine spacecraft. Clementine's star tracker camera image reveals (from right to left) the Moon lit by Earthshine, the Sun's corona rising over the Moon's dark limb, and the planets Saturn, Mars, and Mercury.
![След лунного затмения](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163933/moontrail_orman_big.preview.jpg)
13.10.2000
Tonight, Friday the 13th, October's big, bright, beautiful full Moon will be in the sky, rising as the sun sets. A time exposure of this evening's full Moon would show a brilliant circular arc or Moon trail tracing its celestial path.
![Спутник HETE-2 верхом на Пегасе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162404/hete2_prelaunch_big.preview.jpg)
12.10.2000
The Stargazer, a modified Lockheed L-1011 aircraft, soared into the skies above Kwajalein Atoll in the pacific on October 9th. A small satellite observatory known as the High Energy Transient Explorer - 2 (HETE-2) was tucked into Stargazer's winged Pegasus rocket, slung beneath the large trimotor jet's fuselage.
![Космический аппарат Кассини приближается к Юпитеру](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162397/jupitereuropa_cassini_big.preview.jpg)
11.10.2000
A new spacecraft has entered the outer Solar System: Cassini. Launched in 1997 and bound for Saturn in 2004, Cassini sent back the above image last week while approaching the giant planet Jupiter. Cassini joins the Galileo spacecraft currently in orbit around Jupiter in studying the gas giant and its moons.
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