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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
!["Мессенджер" показывает Меркурий](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/13/0001231348/mercuryflyby2_messenger.preview.jpg)
8.10.2008
The planet Mercury has been known since history has been recorded, but parts of the Solar System's innermost planet have never been seen like this before. Two days ago the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft buzzed past Mercury for the second time and imaged terrain mapped previously only by comparatively crude radar.
![Пылевые горы в туманности Киля](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/07/0001231265/ngc3324_hst.preview.jpg)
7.10.2008
Bright young stars sometimes sculpt picturesque dust mountains soon after being born. Created quite by accident, the energetic light and winds from these massive newborn stars burn away accumulations of dark dust and cool gas in a slow but persistent manner.
![Ярусы скал на севере Марса](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/06/0001231254/marslayers_hirise.preview.jpg)
6.10.2008
How did these layers of red cliffs form on Mars? No one is sure. The northern ice cap on Mars is nearly divided into two by a huge division named Chasma Boreale. No similar formation occurs on Earth. Pictured above, several dusty layers leading into this deep chasm are visible.
![Земля ночью](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/06/0001231255/earthlights2_dmsp.preview.jpg)
5.10.2008
This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan.
![Солнечный протуберанец раскрывается](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/08/0001231279/sunprominence_304erupt_crop800.preview.jpg)
4.10.2008
On September 29, this magnificent eruptive solar prominence lifted away from the Sun's surface, unfurling into space over the course of several hours. Suspended in twisted magnetic fields, the hot plasma structure is many times the size of planet Earth and was captured in this view by the Sun-watching STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft.
![Молодые солнца в NGC 7129](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/03/0001231214/ngc7129_fera800.preview.jpg)
3.10.2008
Young suns still lie within dusty NGC 7129, some 3,000 light-years away toward the royal constellation Cepheus. While these stars are at a relatively tender age, only about a million years old, it is likely that our own Sun formed in a similar stellar nursery some five billion years ago.
![NGC 253 крупным планом](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/02/0001231204/ngc253wide_hst_600w.preview.jpg)
2.10.2008
This dusty island universe is one of the brightest spiral galaxies in the sky. Seen nearly edge-on, NGC 253 lies a mere 13 million light-years away and is the largest member of the Sculptor Group of galaxies, neighbor to our own local galaxy group.
![Первый запуск ракеты с мыса Канаверал](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/14/0001231355/bumper2_nasa.preview.jpg)
1.10.2008
A new chapter in space flight began on 1950 July with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Bumper 2. Shown above, the Bumper 2 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a V-2 missile base with a WAC Corporal rocket.
![Эй, планеты!](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/09/30/0001231170/rockyplanets_salway.preview.jpg)
30.09.2008
Can you spot the Solar System's four rocky planets? In the above image taken on September 20, all of them were visible in a single glance, but some of them may be different than you think. Pictured above, the brightest and highest object in the sky is the planet Venus.
![Подлинная фотография с Ложной Кивой](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/09/29/0001231099/falsekiva_pacholka.preview.jpg)
29.09.2008
Is there any place in the world you could see a real sight like this? Yes. Pictured above is single exposure image spectacular near, far, and in between. Diving into the Earth far in the distance is part of the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, taken with a long duration exposure.
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