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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Чилийское небо](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/30/0001232204/VenJpt_beletsky_c800.preview.jpg)
28.11.2008
Night skies over Chilean mountain top observatories can be dark and clear, with glorious cosmic vistas. In this recent example, the plane of our Milky Way galaxy stretches parallel to the horizon, the galactic center's star clusters, dark dust clouds, and glowing nebulae hovering in the west.
![Возможная планета у β Живописца](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/28/0001232190/betaPic_eso_crop.preview.jpg)
27.11.2008
A mere 50 light-years away, young star Beta Pictoris became one of the most important stars in the sky in the early 1980s. Satellite and ground-based telescopic observations revealed the presence of a surrounding...
![Галактики в Реке](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/28/0001232173/NGC1532_gendler_c800.preview.jpg)
26.11.2008
Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy practices galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that get too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity. In fact, the practice...
![Туманность Конская Голова в Орионе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/27/0001232147/horsehead_caelum.preview.jpg)
25.11.2008
One of the most identifiable nebulae in the sky, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, is part of a large, dark, molecular cloud. Also known as Barnard 33, the unusual shape was first discovered on a photographic plate in the late 1800s.
![Болид над Эдмонтоном](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/26/0001232133/978055bin.jpg)
24.11.2008
What if you're driving down the street and an object from space shoots across the sky right in front of you? Such was the case last week for many people in south central Canada.
![Радар открывает скрывающиеся ледники на Марсе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/25/0001232100/glacialcraters_mro.preview.jpg)
23.11.2008
What created this unusual terrain on Mars? The floors of several mid-latitude craters in Hellas Basin on Mars appear unusually grooved, flat, and shallow. New radar images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter bolster an exciting hypothesis: huge glaciers of buried ice.
![Рядом с туманностью Конус](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/23/0001232001/coneregion_noao.preview.jpg)
22.11.2008
Strange shapes and textures can be found in neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. The unusual shapes originate from fine interstellar dust reacting in complex ways with the energetic light and hot gas being expelled by the young stars.
![От восхода до заката](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/23/0001231994/Panoramica-luaSol-net.preview.jpg)
21.11.2008
In this panorama of Earth and sky recorded on Thursday, November 13, the Full Moon rises along the eastern horizon at the far left. Of course, the Full Moon rises at sunset and that Thursday's setting Sun was also captured at the far right.
![Сверху и снизу M76](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/21/0001231956/M76NB_goldmanRGB_Crop800.preview.jpg)
20.11.2008
Also known by the popular name the "Little Dumbbell Nebula", M76 is one of the fainter objects listed in Charles Messier's 18th century Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters. Like its better-known namesake M27 (the Dumbbell Nebula), M76 is recognized as a planetary nebula - a gaseous shroud cast off by a dying sunlike star.
![Индевор на фоне Луны](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/11/20/0001231939/sts126_kozubal_sm.preview.jpg)
19.11.2008
Glaring near the top of the frame, the shuttle orbiter Endeavour rockets into the night on the STS-126 mission. Endeavour left planet Earth on November 14 from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, making the 27th flight to the International Space Station.
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