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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Место посадки на астероиде Эрос](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/02/06/0001166147/eroslanding_near.preview.jpg)
5.02.2001
The first controlled descent of a spacecraft onto an asteroid is scheduled to occur next week. The robot spacecraft NEAR-Shoemaker has been orbiting asteroid Eros for nearly one year On February 12, before maneuvering fuel wanes, NASA will command the craft to descend right down onto the surface.
![Планетарная туманность Mz3 – Туманность "Муравей"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/30/0001313535/mz3_hst.preview.jpg)
4.02.2001
Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round?
![Добро пожаловать на планету Земля!](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/02/04/0001166119/earth_1_apollo17.preview.gif)
3.02.2001
Welcome to Planet Earth, the third planet from a star named the Sun. The Earth is shaped like a sphere and composed mostly of rock. Over 70 percent of the Earth's surface is water. The planet has a relatively thin atmosphere composed mostly of nitrogen and oxygen.
![M100 -- галактика со спиральным узором типа гранд-дизайн](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/02/03/0001166118/m100_hst.preview.jpg)
2.02.2001
Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a Grand Design spiral galaxy. A large galaxy of over 100 billion or so stars with well defined spiral arms, it is similar to our own Milky Way.
![Панорама всего неба](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/02/02/0001166109/allsky_mellinger_c2.preview.jpg)
1.02.2001
This quite stunning panorama of the entire sky is a mosaic of 51 wide-angle photographs. Made over a three year period from locations in California (USA), South Africa, and Germany, the individual pictures were digitized and stitched together to create an apparently seamless 360 by 180 degree view.
![Мозг Юпитера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/02/01/0001166102/jupiterbrain_cassini.preview.jpg)
31.01.2001
Gas giant Jupiter is the solar system's largest world with about 320 times the mass of planet Earth. Famous for its Great Red Spot, Jupiter is also known for its regular, equatorial cloud bands, visible in very modest sized telescopes.
![Земная плазмосфера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/04/0001167179/earthplasma_image.preview.jpg)
30.01.2001
Our Earth is surrounded by plasma. The overall shape that this ionized gas plasmasphere takes was discovered last year by NASA's robot IMAGE spacecraft, and shown in the recently released above image in ultraviolet light.
![Большая туманность Ориона глазами телескопа VLT](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/01/30/0001166094/orion2_vlt.preview.jpg)
29.01.2001
The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion. But this image, a representative-color composite...
![Самолет на фоне Солнца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/01/29/0001166085/sunplane_legault.preview.jpg)
28.01.2001
Sometimes, good planes come to those who wait. Experienced solar photographer Thierry Lagault had noticed planes crossing in front of the Sun from his home in suburban Paris. He then got the idea for the above photograph, but had to wait through many near misses.
![Мы несемся сквозь Вселенную](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/01/29/0001166084/dipole_cobe.preview.jpg)
27.01.2001
Our Earth is not at rest. The Earth moves around the Sun. The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy orbits in the Local Group of Galaxies. The Local Group falls toward the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies.
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