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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Год 2000: метеор из потока Леонид в созвездии Ориона](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162156/leonid00_murray_big.preview.jpg)
20.11.2000
The Leonid Meteor Shower this year could be described as good but not great. During November 17 and 18 the Earth crossed through several streams of sand-sized grit left orbiting the Sun by Comet Tempel-Tuttle. Several distinct peaks in meteor activity were reported, with
![Наша пыльная Вселенная](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162412/dustsky_cobe_big.preview.jpg)
19.11.2000
What's black & white and red all over? Add our universe to this list. Adrift in a vast sea of darkness are not only familiar bright stars but dust that glows predominantly in far-infrared light.
![Юпитер и его семейство](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163954/jupfam1_galvg_big.preview.jpg)
18.11.2000
This composite image features classic portraits of members of one of the Solar System's most prominent families - Jupiter and its four large "Galilean" moons. Starting from the top the moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The top-to-bottom order is also the order of increasing distance from Jupiter.
![Леониды на восходе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163952/leosun_wpacholka_big.preview.jpg)
17.11.2000
Such beautiful things begin as grains of sand. Locked in an oyster a granule grows into an iridescent pearl, lustrous and lovely to behold. While hurtling through the atmosphere at 70 kilometers per second, a cosmic sand grain becomes an awe-inspiring meteor, its transient beauty displayed for any who care to watch.
![Дневной болид 1944 года](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163951/meteor44_appleton_big.preview.jpg)
16.11.2000
While stationed in central Africa in December 1944, Norman Appleton witnessed a meteor so bright he remembered it his entire life. Right before his eyes a tremendous smoking fireball streaked across the daytime sky. Years later, as an accomplished member of the Guild of Aviation Artists, he recorded his memories in the above painting.
![Корональный дождь и солнечная буря](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163950/arcadenov9_trace_big.preview.jpg)
15.11.2000
In this picture, the Sun's surface is quite dark. A frame from a movie recorded on November 9th by the orbiting TRACE telescope, it shows coronal loops lofted over a solar active region.
![Марсианские ярданги](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163949/yardangs_mgs_big.preview.jpg)
14.11.2000
OK, fans of classic science fiction might be disappointed. The yardangs are not barsoomian warriors in a newly discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs tale of adventure and conquest on the Red Planet. In fact yardangs, geologists' term for narrow, wind-eroded ridges, are common land features in the desert regions of planet Earth.
![Беспорядки в квинтете Стефана](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163948/quintet_hst_big.preview.jpg)
13.11.2000
What are four closely grouped galaxies doing in this image? The grouping composes a majority of the large galaxies in Stephan's Quintet, with the fifth prominent galaxy located off the above image to the lower right.
![Лайман-альфа лес](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162066/lyalpha_gc3_big.preview.gif)
12.11.2000
We live in a forest. Strewn throughout the universe are "trees" of hydrogen gas that absorb light from distant objects. These gas clouds leave numerous absorption lines in a distant quasar's spectra, together called the Lyman-alpha forest.
![Первая обсерватория на Луне](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162420/lunartel_apollo16_big.preview.jpg)
11.11.2000
The first, and so far only, lunar astronomical observatory was deployed by the Apollo 16 crew in 1972. The Far Ultraviolet Camera / Spectrograph used a 3-inch diameter Schmidt telescope to photograph the Earth, nebulae, star clusters, and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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