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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Персеиды на фоне полярного сияния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166726/perseidaurora_westlake_big.preview.jpg)
21.08.2000
Just after the Moon set but before the Sun rose in the early morning hours of August 12, meteors pelted the Earth from the direction of the constellation Perseus, while ions pelted the Earth from the Sun.
![Поверхность Титана](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166707/titan_cfht_big.preview.jpg)
20.08.2000
If sailing the hydrocarbon seas of Titan, beware of gasoline rain. Such might be a travel advisory issued one future day for adventurers visiting Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. New images of Titan's surface were released last week from the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope featuring the finest details yet resolved.
![ROSAT исследует небо в рентгеновских лучах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166706/xallsky_rosat110.preview.jpg)
19.08.2000
Launched in 1990, the orbiting ROSAT observatory explored the Universe by viewing the entire sky in x-rays -- photons with about 1,000 times more energy than visible light. This ROSAT survey produced the sharpest, most sensitive image of the x-ray sky to date.
![Рентгеновское излучение галактик Антенны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/06/30/0001214707/antennagal_cxo_big.preview.jpg)
18.08.2000
A bevy of black holes and neutron stars shine as bright, point-like sources against bubbles of million degree gas in this false-color x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory. The striking picture shows...
![Магнитная буря на Mount Megantic](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166704/aurora2_gauthier.preview.jpg)
17.08.2000
Plasma from the Sun and debris from a comet both collided with planet Earth last Saturday morning triggering magnetic storms and a meteor shower in a dazzling atmospheric spectacle. The debris stream from comet...
![Необычная гигантская галактика NGC 1316](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166725/ngc1316_vlt_big.preview.jpg)
16.08.2000
Can unusual giant galaxy NGC 1316 help calibrate the universe? Quite possibly -- if it turns out this atypical galaxy is composed of typical stars. NGC 1316, pictured above, is most obviously strange because...
![Солнечный спектр](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166724/solarspectrum_noao.preview.jpg)
15.08.2000
It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Shown above are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device.
![Каскад Кембла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166701/kemblescascade_macdonald_big.preview.jpg)
14.08.2000
A picturesque chain of unrelated stars is visible with strong binoculars towards the constellation of Camelopardalis. Known as Kemble's Cascade, the asterism contains about 20 stars nearly in a row stretching over five times the width of a full moon.
![Обреченная звезда Eta Carinae](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/17/0001168983/etacarinae2_hst.preview.jpg)
13.08.2000
Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when - it may be next year, it may be one million years from now. Eta Carinae's mass - about 100 times greater than our Sun - makes it an excellent candidate for a full blown su
![Один из метеоров потока Персеид](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166699/perseid3_sk_big.preview.jpg)
12.08.2000
This weekend, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its maximum. Grains of cosmic sand and gravel shed from Comet Swift-Tuttle will streak across the sky as they vaporize during entry into Earth's atmosphere. The Perseids result from the yearly
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