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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Рея - второй по величине спутник Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/22/0001179059/rhea_vg1.preview.gif)
14.10.1995
Rhea is the second largest moon of Saturn, behind Titan, and the largest without an atmosphere. It is composed mostly of water ice, but has a small rocky core. Rhea's rotation and orbit are locked together (just like Earth's Moon) so that one side always faces Saturn.
![Юпитер, Ио и тень Ганимеда](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/22/0001179058/jupiterio_vg1.preview.gif)
13.10.1995
Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, is seen here next to Io, its closest Galilean moon. On the cloud tops of Jupiter near the left edge of the picture can be seen a dark circular spot which is caused by the shadow of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede.
![Звездная струя HH-47](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/22/0001179057/starjets_hst.preview.gif)
12.10.1995
The star masked by a dust cloud at the left of the above photo is expelling an energetic beam of charged particles into interstellar space. This jet, moving from left to right, has burrowed through much interstellar material, and now expands out into the interstellar space.
![Облака звезд в Большом Магеллановом Облаке](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/22/0001179056/lmcstars_uit.preview.gif)
11.10.1995
Pictured above are clouds of young stars forming an arc in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, the nearest galaxy to the our Milky Way Galaxy. These stars are situated in a star forming region known as N 51.
![Елена - лагранжев спутник Дионы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/22/0001179079/helene_vg2.preview.gif)
10.10.1995
Saturn's moon Helene is very unusual in that it circles Saturn near the orbit of a bigger moon: Dione. Helene is situated in what is called a "Lagrange point" of Dione - a place of stability created by Dione's gravity.
![Спутник Сатурна Диона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/22/0001179054/dione_vg1.preview.gif)
9.10.1995
Dione, one of Saturn's larger moons, is remarkable for its bright surface streaks. These streaks run across some of Dione's many craters, which indicate that the process which created the streaks occurred later than the process which created the craters.
!["Аполлон-12" навещает "Сервейор-3"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/22/0001179053/survey_ap12.preview.gif)
8.10.1995
Apollo 12 was the second mission to land humans on the Moon. The landing site was picked to be near the location of Surveyor 3, a robot spacecraft that had landed on the moon three years earlier. Pictured above, Apollo 12 astronauts Conrad and Bean retrieve parts from the Surveyor.
![Спуск лунного модуля "Аполлон-12"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/22/0001179052/descend_ap12.preview.gif)
7.10.1995
A few months after Apollo 11's historic Moon landing, Apollo 12 with commander Charles Conrad Jr., Command Module pilot Richard Gordan, and Lunar Module pilot Alan Bean returned for more geographic and scientific exploration.
![Темные глобулы Бока в объекте IC 2944](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/22/0001179051/bokglob_aat.preview.gif)
6.10.1995
The dark spots in the above picture are not photographic defects but an unusual type of interstellar cloud known as a Bok globule. Bok globules, named after astronomer Bart Bok who studied them extensively, are small dark clouds made of gas and dust that are typically condensing to form a star or stars.
![Разорванное кометообразное облако CG4](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/23/0001193228/cg4_aat.preview.gif)
5.10.1995
The odd looking "creature" to the right of center in the above photo is a gas cloud known as a cometary globule. This globule, however, has ruptured. Cometary globules are typically characterized by dusty heads and elongated tails.
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