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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Рентгеновское излучение из галактического центра](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/06/0001201103/mwcore_cxo_c1.preview.jpg)
6.11.2004
Using the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have taken this long look at the core of our Milky Way galaxy, some 26,000 light-years away. The spectacular false-color view spans about 130 light-years.
![Остаток сверхновой в гамма-лучах](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/06/0001201101/1713map_hess_c1.preview.jpg)
5.11.2004
Gamma rays are the most energetic form of light. With up to a billion times the energy of ordinary "medical" x-rays, they easily penetrate telescope lenses and mirrors, making it very difficult to create gamma-ray images of cosmic sources.
![NGC 7024: Туманность Ирис](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/05/0001201083/ngc7023_misti_c1.preview.jpg)
4.11.2004
Like delicate cosmic petals, these clouds of interstellar dust and gas have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile star fields of the constellation Cepheus. Sometimes called the Iris Nebula and dutifully cataloged as NGC 7023, this is not the only nebula in the sky to evoke the imagery of flowers.
![Как проходило лунное затмение](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/03/0001201069/eclipselapse_egan.preview.jpg)
3.11.2004
During last week's lunar eclipse, our Moon appeared to disappear. As the Earth moved between the Moon and the Sun, the Earth's shadow fell on the moon, making it quite dark.
!["Аллея бурь" на Сатурне](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/02/0001201064/saturnstorms_cassini.preview.jpg)
2.11.2004
What causes storms on Saturn? To help find out, scientists commanded the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn to inspect a circulating band of clouds nicknamed "Storm Alley." This westwardly moving cloud ring...
![Похожая на привидение область звездообразования DR 6](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/01/0001201055/dr6_spitzer.preview.jpg)
1.11.2004
How could stars form such a spooky and familiar shape as a human skull? First, the complex process of star formation creates nebulas of many shapes and sizes -- it is human perception that identifies the skull shape.
![Хэллоуин и туманность Голова Призрака](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/01/0001201045/ngc2080_hst.preview.jpg)
31.10.2004
Halloween's origin is ancient and astronomical. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-quarter day, a day halfway between an equinox (equal day / equal night) and a solstice (minimum day / maximum night in the northern hemisphere). With our modern calendar, however, the real cross-quarter day will occur next week.
![Луна, как тыква](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/31/0001201020/PassageOmbre_sm4.preview.jpg)
30.10.2004
Does this look familiar? Red and orange hues haunting the face of the Moon might remind you of the October 27th total lunar eclipse, but the picture is actually a montage of images from a similar lunar spectacle in May of 2003.
![Тройная красная Луна](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/29/0001200992/redmoonTrio_espenak_c1.preview.jpg)
29.10.2004
Some thought of baseball and some thought of Halloween during October 27th's widely viewed total lunar eclipse. Sliding through Earth's shadow, the Moon turned haunting shades of red and orange during the eclipse's total phase.
![Загадочный Титан](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/28/0001200985/titan_cassini_1pPIA06139.preview.jpg)
28.10.2004
Normally hidden by a thick, hazy atmosphere, tantalizing features on Titan's surface appear in this false-color view. The image was recorded as the Cassini spacecraft approached its first close flyby of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon on October 26.
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