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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Падение Венеры на вечернем небе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/13/0001217735/venus_orman.preview.jpg)
3.09.1999
Orbiting closer to the Sun than planet Earth, bright Venus always appears to be near the Sun's position in our sky and often shines near the horizon in twilight hours. In fact, after...
![Затмение за горами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/13/0001217736/leclipse_frost.preview.jpg)
2.09.1999
Undaunted by world wide anticipation of the August 11 total solar eclipse, the moon also performed a lunar eclipse just two weeks earlier, on July 28. Crossing the edge of Earth's shadow the moon was only partially eclipsed - but the spectacle could be seen by observers located across the Earth's night side.
![Астероид 1999 JM8 очень близко!](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/02/02/0001220594/1999JM8_goldstone_big.preview.gif)
1.09.1999
Nearly four kilometers across, the huge rock known as 1999 JM8 silently passed only 8.5 million kilometers from the Earth in early August. The small asteroid was completely unknown before May. Every few centuries, a rock like this impacts the Earth, with the potential to disrupt modern civilization.
![Пузыри от симбиотической звезды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/14/0001217761/he2-104_hst_big.preview.jpg)
31.08.1999
The two stars at the center of this nebula are very different. One is a white dwarf star with a mass similar to our Sun but with a radius as small as our Earth.
![Взгляд на затененную Землю](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/14/0001217762/eclipse99_mir_big.preview.jpg)
30.08.1999
Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth. This shadow moves across the Earth at nearly 2000 kilometers per hour.
![Туманность Голова ведьмы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/14/0001217814/witchhead_gg_big.preview.jpg)
29.08.1999
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble ... Maybe Macbeth should have consulted the Witch Head Nebula. This suggestively shaped reflection nebula is associated with the bright star Rigel in the constellation Orion. More formally known as IC 2118, the Witch Head Nebula glows primarily by light reflected from Rigel.
![Рентгеновские Плеяды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/14/0001217765/pleiades_rosat.preview.gif)
28.08.1999
The Pleiades star cluster is one of the jewels of the northern sky. To the unaided eye it appears as an alluring group of stars in the constellation Taurus, while telescopic views reveal cluster stars surrounded by delicate blue wisps of dust-reflected starlight.
![Первые наблюдения Чандра: Кассиопея A](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/14/0001217778/CXO_CassiopeiaA_m.preview.jpg)
27.08.1999
Cosmic wreckage from the detonation of a massive star is the subject of this official first image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The supernova remnant, known as Cassiopeia A, was produced when a star exploded around 300 years ago in this northern sky constellation.
![Пролет Кассини](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/14/0001217780/garradd_cassini_1.preview.jpg)
26.08.1999
Connect the dots and you'll trace the path of the Cassini spacecraft as it took a final turn by Earth on its way to the outer solar system. The dots (in a horizontal row just below center) are actually successive images of the spacecraft.
![Отражения в NGC 6188](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/14/0001217782/ngc6188_dfm.preview.jpg)
25.08.1999
NGC 6188 is an interstellar carnival of young blue stars, hot red gas, and cool dark dust. Located 4000 light years away in the disk of our Galaxy, NGC 6188 is home to the Ara OB1 association, a group of bright young stars whose nucleus forms the open cluster NGC 6193.
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