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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Новогодний полумесяц](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/01/02/0001298023/VenusCrescentDec302013ouelletCrop.preview.jpg)
1.01.2014
That's not the young crescent Moon poised above the western horizon at sunset. Instead it's Venus in a crescent phase, captured with a long telephoto lens from Quebec City, Canada, planet Earth on a chilly December 30th evening. The very bright celestial beacon is droping lower into the evening twilight every day.
![Туманность Конская Голова](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/12/31/0001297995/horsehead_chumack_960.preview.jpg)
31.12.2013
The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as the dark indentation to the red emission nebula in the center of the above photograph. The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front of the bright red emission nebula.
![Фантастический квантовый фрактальный пейзаж](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/12/31/0001297994/mandelbox077_leys_960.preview.jpg)
30.12.2013
What strange world is this? Pictured above is no real place but rather a purely mathematical visualization of a generalization of a fractal into three dimensions. Classical fractal diagrams are typically confined to the two dimensions inherent in the complex number plane, demarking regions where an iterative function diverges.
![Северное сияние над Норвегией](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/12/29/0001297926/auror.preview.jpg)
29.12.2013
Sometimes, after your eyes adapt to the dark, a spectacular sky appears. Such was the case in 2011 March when one of the largest auroral displays in recent years appeared over northern locations like the border between Norway and Russia.
![Северное сияние над Аляской](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/12/28/0001297897/FairbanksAurora-07Dec2013wZimmerman900.preview.jpg)
28.12.2013
A remarkably intense auroral band flooded the northern night with shimmering colors on December 7. The stunning sequence captured here was made with a camera fixed to a tripod under cold, clear skies near Ester, just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska.
![Мелотт 15 в Сердце](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/12/27/0001297832/LRGBV6Melotte15_JWalker900.preview.jpg)
27.12.2013
Cosmic clouds seem to form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 1805. Of course, the clouds are sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula's newborn star cluster, Melotte 15.
![Водородные облака в M33](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/12/26/0001297797/M33block_Ha_enhanced900.preview.jpg)
26.12.2013
Gorgeous spiral galaxy M33 seems to have more than its fair share of glowing hydrogen gas. A prominent member of the local group of galaxies, M33 is also known as the Triangulum Galaxy and lies about 3 million light-years distant.
![Фобос 360](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/12/25/0001297788/fobos.preview.jpg)
25.12.2013
What does the Martian moon Phobos look like? To better visualize this unusual object, images from ESA's Mars Express orbiter have been combined into a virtual rotation movie. The rotation is actually a digital illusion -- tidally-locked Phobos always keeps the same face toward its home planet, as does Earth's moon.
![Шарплесс 308: звездный пузырь](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/12/24/0001297750/sharpless308_husted_960.preview.jpg)
24.12.2013
Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major) and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon.
![Геминиды над Чили](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/12/23/0001297699/geminids2013_beletsky_960.preview.jpg)
23.12.2013
From a radiant point in the constellation of the Twins, the annual Geminid meteor shower rained down on planet Earth over the past few weeks. Recorded near the shower's peak over the night...
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