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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Комета Икея-Жанга над Тенерифе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/03/26/0001175501/ikeya_rodriguez.preview.jpg)
25.03.2002
Comet Ikeya-Zhang has become bright enough to stand out in the night sky. Discovered February 1, the comet has now just rounded the Sun and has likely attained its peak brightness. The comet appears...
![Необычная глобула в IC 1396](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/03/25/0001175474/ic1396_cfht.preview.jpg)
24.03.2002
Is there a monster in IC 1396? Known to some as the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, parts of gas and dust clouds of this star formation region may appear to take on foreboding forms, some nearly human. The only real monster here, however, is a bright young star too far from Earth to hurt us.
![Туманность Кошачий глаз](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/03/25/0001175471/catseye_hst.preview.jpg)
23.03.2002
Three thousand light-years away, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Cat's Eye Nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known.
![Канал водяного пара](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/07/07/0001177699/watervapor_goes8.preview.jpg)
22.03.2002
What alien planet's bizarre landscape lurks below these fiery-looking clouds? It's only planet Earth, of course ... as seen on the Water Vapor Channel. Hourly, images like this one (an infrared image shown in false-color) are brought to you by the orbiting Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites' (GOES) multi-channel imagers.
![Одиссей над Марсом](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/03/22/0001175418/marse_odythemis.preview.jpg)
21.03.2002
Scroll right and journey for 300 kilometers over Terra Sirenum in the cratered highlands of southern Mars. The infrared view, 32 kilometers wide, was recently recorded by the THEMIS camera on board the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
![S на Солнце](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/03/21/0001175395/eq02_sohoeit.preview.jpg)
20.03.2002
Taken yesterday from the SOHO spacecraft, this false-color image shows the active Sun near the March Equinox, the beginning of Fall in the south and Spring in the northern hemisphere. Recorded in a band...
![Полярное сияние над Антарктикой](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/03/20/0001175382/spaurora1_schwarz.preview.jpg)
19.03.2002
Looking out from the bottom of the world, strange and spectacular sights are sometimes observed. Such was the case during the long Antarctic night of 1998, as awesome aurora sub-storms were photographed above scientific outposts. Visible in the left foreground of the above photograph is the Martin A.
![Разложение далекого света](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/03/19/0001175348/galaxyspectra_vlt.preview.jpg)
18.03.2002
In the distant universe, time appears to run slow. Since time-dilated light appears shifted toward the red end of the spectrum (redshifted), astronomers are able to use cosmological time-slowing to help measure vast distances in the universe.
![Активный хвост кометы Икея-Жанга](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/03/18/0001175334/ikeyazhang_jones.preview.jpg)
17.03.2002
One of the brightest comets of the past five years will likely reach its peak brightness this week. Comet Ikeya-Zhang, officially known as C/2002 C1, can now be seen without aide from a dark location above the western horizon shortly after sunset.
![NGC 2244: Звездное скопление в туманности Розетка](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/03/18/0001175340/ngc2244_cfht.preview.jpg)
16.03.2002
In the heart of the Rosette Nebula lies a bright open cluster of stars that lights up the nebula. The stars of NGC 2244 formed from the surrounding gas only four million years ago and emit light and wind that define the nebula's appearance today.
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