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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Под поверхностью Луны найдена замерзшая вода](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/10/25/0001247777/mooncabeus_lcross.preview.jpg)
25.10.2010
Is there enough water on the moon to sustain future astronauts? The question has important implications if humanity hopes to use the Moon as a future outpost. Last year, to help find out, scientists crashed the moon-orbiting LCROSS spacecraft into a permanently shadowed crater near the Moon's South Pole.
![Роторный экскаватор на Земле](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/10/25/0001247769/trencher2_smd.preview.jpg)
24.10.2010
Please wait while one of the largest mobile machines in the world crosses the road. The machine pictured above is a bucket-wheel excavator used in modern surface mining. Machines like this have given humanity the ability to mine minerals and change the face of planet Earth in new and dramatic ways.
![Орион с головы до ног](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/10/24/0001247752/Orion2010_andreo600h.preview.jpg)
23.10.2010
Cradled in cosmic dust and glowing hydrogen, stellar nurseries in Orion the Hunter lie at the edge of a giant molecular cloud some 1,500 light-years away. Spanning nearly 25 degrees, this breath-taking vista stretches across the well-known constellation from head to toe (left to right).
![NGC 7822 в созвездии Цефея](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/10/22/0001247719/NGC7822_H2cFleming750.preview.jpg)
22.10.2010
Pillars of gas, dust, and young, hot stars seem to fill the gaping maw of NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, the glowing star forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away. Within the nebula, bright edges and dark shapes are highlighted in this colorful skyscape.
![Туманность MWP1 "Винная бутыль"](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/10/21/0001247688/MWP1Web_Goldman900c.preview.jpg)
21.10.2010
The lovely, symmetric planetary nebula cataloged as MWP1 lies some 4,500 light-years away in the northern constellation Cygnus the Swan. One of the largest planetary nebulae known, it spans about 15 light-years. Based...
![Венера сразу после заката](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/10/20/0001247679/venussunset_tezel.preview.jpg)
20.10.2010
Is that Venus or an airplane? A common ponderable for sky enthusiasts is deciding if that bright spot near the horizon is the planet Venus. Usually, an airplane will show itself by moving significantly in a few moments. Venus will set only slowly as the Earth turns.
![Прометей поднимается над кольцом F Сатурна](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/10/19/0001247664/prometheusrising_cassini.preview.jpg)
19.10.2010
What is that dark streak below Prometheus? Although it may look like a shadow or a trail blazed by sweeping up material, computer simulations indicate that the dark streak is better understood as an empty path pulled away by the gravity of Saturn's small moon.
![Оно пришло от Солнца](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/10/18/0001247650/sunbug_soho.preview.jpg)
18.10.2010
What's that coming over the edge of the Sun? What might appear at first glance to be some sort of Sun monster is actually a solar prominence. The above prominence, captured...
![NGC 346 в Малом Магеллановом Облаке](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/10/18/0001247640/ngc346_hst.preview.jpg)
17.10.2010
How and why are all these stars forming? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud's (SMC's) clusters and nebulae NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured above by the Hubble Space Telescope.
![Большое Магелланово Облако](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/10/18/0001247639/LMC_gleason_950c.preview.jpg)
16.10.2010
The 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two fuzzy cloud-like objects easily...
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