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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Старт "Атлантиса"](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/01/17/0001237974/atlantis_sts104.preview.jpg)
17.01.2010
Birds don't fly this high. Airplanes don't go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than human can even comprehend what is going on, nor could any human just a millennium ago. The launch of a rocket bound for space is an event that inspires awe and challenges description.
![Новогодняя околосолнечная комета](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/01/18/0001237991/C2comet_newSOHOx600.preview.jpg)
16.01.2010
Intense and overwhelming, the direct glare of the Sun is blocked by the smooth occulting disk in this image from the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Taken on January 3rd, an extreme ultraviolet image of the Sun to scale, is superimposed at the center of the disk.
![Вид неба из двух полушарий](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/01/15/0001237932/TwoHemispheresTafreshi_900.preview.jpg)
15.01.2010
The stars of a summer night on the left and the winter night sky on the right are the same stars. In fact, both pictures were taken in late December and have similar fields of view.
![M94: новая перспектива](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/01/14/0001237922/small_gabany_m94.preview.jpg)
14.01.2010
Beautiful island universe M94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the hunting dogs, Canes Venatici. A popular target for astronomers the brighter inner part of the face-on spiral galaxy is about 30,000 light-years across.
![Паук и Муха](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/01/13/0001237900/IC417tsounis900.preview.jpg)
13.01.2010
Bright clusters and nebulae abound in the ancient northern constellation of Auriga. The region includes the open star cluster M38, emission nebula IC 410 with Tadpoles, Auriga's own Flaming Star Nebula IC 405, and this interesting pair IC 417 (lower left) and NGC 1931.
![Огненная туманность в инфракрасном свете](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/01/12/0001237888/flame_vista.preview.jpg)
12.01.2010
What lights up the Flame Nebula? Fifteen hundred light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears, on the left, like a billowing fire. But fire, the rapid acquisition of oxygen, is not what makes this Flame glow.
![Космонавт ловит спутник](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/01/12/0001237883/westarcapture_sts51a.preview.jpg)
11.01.2010
In 1984, high above the Earth's surface, an astronaut captured a satellite. It was the second satellite captured that mission. Pictured above, astronaut Dale A. Gardner flies free using the Manned Maneuvering Unit and begins to attach a control device dubbed the Stinger to the rotating Westar 6 satellite.
![Шарик с Луны](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/01/12/0001237884/spherule_apollo11.preview.jpg)
10.01.2010
How did this spherule come to be on the Moon? When a meteorite strikes the Moon, the energy of the impact melts some of the splattering rock, a fraction of which might cool into tiny glass beads. Many of these glass beads were present in lunar soil samples returned to Earth by the Apollo missions.
![Галактика Андромеды](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/05/19/0001264691/M31_HALRGBpugh_900.preview.jpg)
9.01.2010
The most distant object easily visible to the eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy some two and a half million light-years away. But without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy - spanning over 200,000 light years - appears as a faint, nebulous cloud in the constellation Andromeda.
![Тайна умирающей звезды](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/01/12/0001237886/EpsilonAurigae_wong900.preview.jpg)
8.01.2010
Every 27 years Epsilon Aurigae fades, remaining dim for roughly two years before growing bright again. Since the 19th century, astronomers have studied the mystery star, eventually arguing that Epsilon Aur, centered in this telescopic skyview, was actually undergoing a long eclipse by a dark companion object.
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