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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Ночная сторона Сатурна](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/09/0001217466/nightsaturn_voyager1_big.preview.jpg)
3.03.2000
From a spectacular vantage point over 1.4 billion kilometers from the sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back toward the inner solar system to record this startling view of Saturn's nightside. The picture was taken on November 16, 1980, some four days after the robot spacecraft's closest approach to the gorgeous gas giant.
![Пылевой шторм на Земле](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/09/0001217467/feb26sandstorm_seawifs_big.preview.jpg)
2.03.2000
From low Earth orbit, NASA's SeaWIFS instrument records ocean color, tracking changes in our water world's climate and biosphere. But even an ocean planet can have dust storms. On February 26th, SeaWIFS...
![NGC 1999: отражательная туманность в Орионе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/09/0001217468/ngc1999_hst_big.preview.jpg)
1.03.2000
A dusty bright nebula contrasts dramatically with a dusty dark nebula in this Hubble Space Telescope image recorded shortly after December's orbital servicing mission. The nebula, cataloged as NGC 1999, is a reflection nebula, which shines by reflecting light from a nearby star.
![M13: восхитительное шаровое скопление в Геркулесе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/09/0001217469/m13_kitahara_big.preview.jpg)
29.02.2000
M13 is one of the most prominent and best known globular clusters. Visible with binoculars in the constellation of Hercules, M13 is frequently one of the first objects found by curious sky gazers seeking celestials wonders beyond normal human vision.
![Юлий Цезарь и високосные дни](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217517/jcaesar_coin.preview.gif)
28.02.2000
Even as leap days go, today is a remarkable one. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar, pictured above in a self-decreed minted coin, created a calendar system that added one leap day every four years.
![Галактика Сомбреро в Очень Большой Телескоп](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217518/sombrero_vlt_big.preview.jpg)
27.02.2000
Why does the Sombrero Galaxy look like a hat? Reasons include the Sombrero's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge.
![Скопление Плеяды](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217519/m45_uks_big.preview.jpg)
26.02.2000
It is the most famous star cluster on the sky. The Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters.
![Падение астероида 65 миллионов лет назад](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217520/chicxulub_sharpton_big.preview.gif)
25.02.2000
What killed the dinosaurs? Their sudden disappearance 65 million years ago, along with about 70 percent of all species then living on Earth, is known as the K-T event (Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction event). Geologists and paleontologists often entertain the idea that a large asteroid
![Кометы СОХО](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217521/comets_soho_big.preview.jpg)
24.02.2000
After four years of successful sun-gazing, the space-based SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has also become the most successful comet-hunter in history, racking up 102 new comets. Above are examples of SOHO's comet discoveries imaged by LASCO, an on-board coronagraph.
![СтереоЭрос](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217522/stereoeros1_near_big.preview.jpg)
23.02.2000
Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to asteroid 433 Eros, 260 million kilometers away! Orbiting the Sun once every 1.8 earth-years, asteroid Eros is a diminutive 40 x 14 x 14 kilometer world of undulating horizons, craters, boulders and valleys.
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