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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Марсианская светотень](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/03/22/0001305229/marsHirise950_ESP_035143_1325.preview.jpg)
22.03.2014
Deep shadows create dramatic contrasts between light and dark in this high-resolution close-up of the martian surface. Recorded on January 24 by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the scene spans about 1.5 kilometers across a sand dune field in a southern highlands crater.
![Следы звезд над скалой Эль-Капитан](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/03/21/0001305089/ElCapstackBolte950.preview.jpg)
21.03.2014
Towering 3,000 feet from base to summit, the famous granite face of El Capitan in Earth's Yosemite National Park just hides the planet's north celestial pole in this skyscape. Of course, the north celestial pole is at the center of all the star trails.
![Солярография с аналеммами](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/03/20/0001304939/krok2_002_950.preview.jpg)
20.03.2014
Today is the equinox. The Sun crosses the celestial equator heading north at 16:57 UT, marking the northern hemisphere's first day of spring. To celebrate, consider this remarkable image following the Sun's yearly trek through planet Earth's sky, the first analemmas exposed every day through the technique of solargraphy.
![Равноденствие на вращающейся Земле](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/03/20/0001304935/zem.preview.jpg)
19.03.2014
When does the line between day and night become vertical? Tomorrow. Tomorrow is an equinox on planet Earth, a time of year when day and night are most nearly equal. At an equinox, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between day and night -- becomes vertical and connects the north and south poles.
![Завихрения реликтового микроволнового фона указывают на инфляцию](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/03/18/0001304627/DSLmap_BICEP2_960.preview.jpg)
18.03.2014
Did the universe undergo an early epoch of extremely rapid expansion? Such an inflationary epoch has been postulated to explain several puzzling cosmic attributes such as why our universe looks similar in opposite directions.
![Искаженное небо: звездные следы над Национальным парком Арчес](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/03/17/0001304496/archtrails_brady_960.preview.jpg)
17.03.2014
What's happened to the sky? A time warp, of sorts, and a digital space warp too. The time warp occurs because this image captured in a single frame a two and a half hour exposure of the night sky. As a result, prominent star trails are visible.
![Столкновение галактик Антенны](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/03/16/0001304369/antennae_coverta_960.preview.jpg)
16.03.2014
Two galaxies are squaring off in Corvus and here are the latest pictures. When two galaxies collide, the stars that compose them usually do not. That's because galaxies are mostly empty space and, however bright, stars only take up only a small amount of that space.
![Аполлон-17: анаглиф "стоянки для особо важных персон"](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/03/15/0001304176/a17anaglyph_vanMeijgaarden_c800.preview.jpg)
15.03.2014
Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo scene from Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon! The color anaglyph features a detailed 3D view of Apollo 17's Lunar Rover in the foreground -- behind it lies the Lunar Module and distant lunar hills.
![NGC 2685: галактика с полярным кольцом](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/03/14/0001303941/NGC2685crawford950.preview.jpg)
14.03.2014
NGC 2685 is a confirmed polar ring galaxy - a rare type of galaxy with stars, gas and dust orbiting in rings perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk. The bizarre configuration could...
![Мессье 63: галактика Подсолнух](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/03/13/0001303917/M63_PS1V10snyder900.preview.jpg)
13.03.2014
A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is about 25 million light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly 100,000 light-years across. That's about the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy.
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