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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Эйбел 370: гравитационная линза скопления галактик](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/21/0001236189/abell370_hst.preview.jpg)
21.09.2009
What is that strange arc? While imaging the cluster of galaxies Abell 370, astronomers had noted an unusual arc to the right of many cluster galaxies. Although curious, one initial response was to avoid commenting on the arc because nothing like it had ever been noted before.
![Ганимед в ярких красках](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/21/0001236188/ganymedeenhanced_galileo.preview.jpg)
20.09.2009
What does the largest moon in the Solar System look like? Ganymede, larger than even Mercury and Pluto, has a surface speckled with bright young craters overlying a mixture of older, darker, more cratered terrain laced with grooves and ridges.
![NGC 3621: вдали от Местной группы](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/20/0001236168/NGC3621Lgendler_800.preview.jpg)
19.09.2009
Far beyond the local group of galaxies lies NGC 3621, some 22 million light-years away. Found in the multi-headed southern constellation Hydra, the winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe are loaded with luminous young star clusters and dark dust lanes.
![Пожми мне руку](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/18/0001236156/iss020e038481_482anapublic_c.preview.jpg)
18.09.2009
Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this close-up of spacesuited NASA astronaut John Olivas outside the International Space Station. Carefully constructed from two photographs (ISS020-E-038481, ISS02-0E-038482) taken during space shuttle orbiter Discovery...
![Ультрафиолетовая Андромеда](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/17/0001236149/UVAndromeda_swiftH600.preview.jpg)
17.09.2009
Taken by a telescope onboard NASA's Swift satellite, this stunning vista represents the highest resolution image ever made of the Andromeda Galaxy (aka M31) - at ultraviolet wavelengths. The mosaic is composed of 330 individual images covering a region 200,000 light-years wide.
![Область Тарантула](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/16/0001236141/tarantula_gleason900.preview.jpg)
16.09.2009
The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1,000 light-years in diameter -- a giant star forming region within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). That cosmic arachnid lies left of center in this in this colorful telescopic image taken through narrow-band filters. It covers a part of the LMC over 2,000 light-years across.
![NGC 6888: туманность Полумесяц](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/16/0001236140/NGC6888_Lopez900.preview.jpg)
15.09.2009
NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. This beautiful portrait of the nebula is from the Isaac Newton Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands.
![Центр шарового скопления Омега Центавра](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/14/0001236125/omegacencenter_hst.preview.jpg)
14.09.2009
What is left over after stars collide? To help answer this question, astronomers have been studying the center of the most massive ball of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. In the center of globular cluster Omega Centauri, stars are packed in 10,000 times more densely than near our Sun.
![Голографический принцип](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/13/0001236120/teapotsirds_winfree.preview.gif)
13.09.2009
Is this picture worth a thousand words? According to the Holographic Principle, the most information you can get from this image is about 3 x 10 65 bits for a normal sized computer monitor.
![Летнее небо Астрономического города](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/12/0001236114/SummerSky_tafreshi.preview.jpg)
12.09.2009
This serene view records a late summer night sky over the rolling, green hills of planet Earth. It was taken near the rural village of Saadat Shahr, Fars province, in southern Iran. Saadat Shahr is also known as Astronomy Town, as the inhabitants have demonstrated a remarakble passion for sky gazing.
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