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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![M1: Крабовидная туманность](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/11/21/0001326159/M1_with_AOXLumPugh1024.preview.jpg)
20.11.2014
The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier's famous 18th century list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, debris from the death explosion of a massive star, witnessed by astronomers in the year 1054.
![LDN 988: темная туманность в Лебеде](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/11/20/0001326097/ldn988franke900.preview.jpg)
19.11.2014
Obscuring the rich starfields of northern Cygnus, dark nebula LDN 988 lies near the center of this cosmic skyscape. Composed with telescope and camera, the scene is some 2 degrees across. That corresponds to 70 light-years at the estimated 2,000 light-year distance of LDN 988.
![Яркая спиральная галактика M81](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/11/19/0001326044/m81_colombari_1080c.preview.jpg)
18.11.2014
One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth's sky is similar in size to our Milky Way Galaxy: big, beautiful M81. This grand spiral galaxy can be found toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major).
![Звездообразование в туманности Головастик](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/11/20/0001326100/ic410_WISEantonucci_960.preview.jpg)
17.11.2014
Dusty emission in the Tadpole nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893.
![Двойной пылевой диск звезды HD 95086](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/11/17/0001325931/HD95086_spitzer_1080.preview.jpg)
16.11.2014
What do other star systems look like? To help find out, astronomers are carrying out detailed observations of nearby stars in infrared light to see which have dust disks that might be forming planets.
![Леониды над Торре де ля Гуаита](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/11/16/0001325890/leonids99_casado_960c.preview.jpg)
15.11.2014
Leonids Meteor Shower came to an impressive crescendo in 1999. Observers in Europe saw a sharp peak in the number of meteors visible around 0210 UTC during the early morning hours of November 18. Meteor counts then exceeded 1000 per hour - the minimum needed to define a true meteor storm.
![Тюльпан в Лебеде](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/11/16/0001325847/TulipNebulaMetsavainio800.preview.jpg)
14.11.2014
Framing a bright emission region this telescopic view looks out along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the nebula rich constellation Cygnus the Swan. Popularly called the Tulip Nebula the glowing cloud of interstellar gas and dust is also found in the 1959 catalog by astronomer Stewart Sharpless as Sh2-101.
![Добро пожаловать на комету](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/11/14/0001325786/Welcome_to_a_comet700.preview.jpg)
13.11.2014
The Rosetta Mission lander is safely on a comet. One of Philae's feet appears at the bottom left of this spectacular image of the surface of C67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Still a happy lander, Philae...
![Спуск на комету](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/11/14/0001325718/ROLIS_descent_image900.preview.jpg)
12.11.2014
Yesterday, the first soft landing on a comet took place some 500 million kilometers from planet Earth as the Rosetta mission lander Philae settled on the nucleus of C67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The landing site, dubbed Agilkia, is located near the center of this remarkable image snapped by Philae's ROLIS (ROsetta Lander Imaging System) camera.
![Посадка зонда "Филы" на ядро кометы](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/11/13/0001325656/PhilaeIllustrated_esa_1080.preview.jpg)
11.11.2014
Today humanity will make its first attempt to land a probe on the nucleus of a comet. As the day progresses, the Philae (fee-LAY) lander will separate from the Rosetta spacecraft and head down...
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