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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Млечный Путь над чилийскими вулканами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/21/0001388115/ChileanVolcanoSky_Fairbairn_1080.preview.jpg)
21.08.2017
Sometimes, the sky mimics the ground. Taken in 2017 May from the Atacama Desert in Chile, the foreground of the featured image encompasses the dipping edge of the caldera of an extinct volcano. Poetically echoing the dip below is the arch of our Milky Way Galaxy above.
![Полное солнечное затмение](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/21/0001388116/eclip.preview.jpg)
20.08.2017
Have you ever experienced a total eclipse of the Sun? This time-lapse movie depicts such an eclipse in dramatic detail, seen from Australia in 2012. As the video begins, a slight dimming of the Sun and the surrounding Earth is barely perceptible.
![Полное солнечное затмение 1979 года](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/21/0001388117/TotalityCanada2Westlake_022679_d1024.preview.jpg)
19.08.2017
From cold, clear skies over Riverton, Manitoba, Canada, planet Earth, the solar corona surrounds the silhouette of the New Moon in this telescopic snapshot of the total solar eclipse of February 26, 1979. Thirty eight years ago, it was the last total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous United States.
![Персеиды над Пиренеями](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/21/0001388118/PerseidsoverPyreneesGraffand1024.preview.jpg)
18.08.2017
This mountain and night skyscape stretches across the French Pyrenees National Park on August 12, near the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. The multi-exposure panoramic view was composed from the Col d'Aubisque, a mountain pass, about an hour before the bright gibbous moon rose.
![NGC 2442: галактика в Летучей Рыбе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/17/0001388097/NGC2442-HST-ESO-L1024c.preview.jpg)
17.08.2017
Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 can be found in the southern constellation of the flying fish, (Piscis) Volans. Located about 50 million light-years away, the galaxy's two spiral arms extending from a pronounced central bar have a hook-like appearance in wide-field images.
![Персеиды над морем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/16/0001388051/perseid_170812_ladanyi_web.preview.jpg)
16.08.2017
Just after moonrise on August 12 this grain of cosmic sand fell by the sea, its momentary flash part of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. To create the Perseid meteors, dust along the orbit of periodic comet Swift-Tuttle is swept up by planet Earth.
![Битва звезд, газа и пыли в туманности Киля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/15/0001387997/Carina_Foucher_960.preview.jpg)
15.08.2017
Chaos reigns in the Carina Nebula where massive stars form and die. Striking and detailed, this close-up of a portion of the famous nebula is a combination of light emitted by hydrogen (shown in red) and oxygen (shown in blue).
!["Новые Горизонты" пролетают над Хароном](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/14/0001387916/charon.preview.jpg)
14.08.2017
What if you could fly over Pluto's moon Charon -- what might you see? The New Horizons spacecraft did just this in 2015 July as it zipped past Pluto and Charon with cameras blazing.
![Подробный вид солнечной короны во время затмения](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/13/0001387829/corona_druckmuller_960.preview.jpg)
13.08.2017
Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible. Normally overwhelmed by the bright solar disk, the expansive corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, is an alluring sight.
![День из жизни человека-солнечные часы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/13/0001387833/sundial.preview.jpg)
12.08.2017
Have you ever wanted to be a gnomon? Of course, a gnomon is the tall part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The gnomon's shadow moves as the Sun moves across the sky, indicating time by the shadow's position on the dial face.
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