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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Орбитальный Космический телескоп Хаббла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/10/02/0001170989/hst_sts103.preview.jpg)
6.08.2001
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the largest orbiting public optical telescope in history. Its 2.4 meter diameter reflecting mirror and its perch above Earth's atmosphere allow it to create exceptionally sharp images.
![NGC 2440: кокон нового белого карлика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/10/02/0001170990/ngc2440_hst4.preview.jpg)
5.08.2001
Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life by casting off a cocoon that enclosed its former self. In this analogy, however, the Sun would be a caterpillar and the ejected shell of gas would become the prettiest of all!
![Соседняя галактика: Большое Магелланово Облако](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199960/lmc_noao.preview.jpg)
4.08.2001
The brightest galaxy visible from our own Milky Way Galaxy is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Visible predominantly from Earth's Southern Hemisphere, the LMC is the second closest galaxy, neighbor to the Small Magellanic Cloud, and one of eleven known dwarf galaxies that orbit our Milky Way Galaxy.
![Изогнутая спиральная галактика ESO 510-13](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199961/eso510_hst.preview.jpg)
3.08.2001
How did spiral galaxy ESO 510-13 get bent out of shape? The disks of many spirals are thin and flat, but not solid. Spiral disks are loose conglomerations of billions of stars and diffuse gas all gravitationally orbiting a galaxy center.
![Горящий древовидный спрайт](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199962/burning_tree.preview.jpg)
2.08.2001
This dramatic, garishly colored image was captured with a low-light level camera on 2001 June 7. It shows what appears to be a "burning tree" above the National Cheng Kung University campus in Tainan City, Taiwan ... but the burning tree is actually a fleeting red sprite 300 kilometers away.
![Молодой марсианский ландшафт](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199963/marsflow_mgs.preview.jpg)
1.08.2001
What caused the pits, ridges, and gullies on otherwise smooth Martian terrain? One hypothesis is water. The lack of craters at this mid-latitude location indicates that the terrain is quite young by geological standards, perhaps only 100,000 years old.
![Океаны под поверхностью спутника Юпитера Каллисто?](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/12/04/0001173384/callistocrescent_vg1.preview.jpg)
31.07.2001
Why does Jupiter's moon Callisto alter the magnetic field of Jupiter in its vicinity? Callisto itself does not have a strong magnetic field. One possible answer is that Callisto harbors sub-surface oceans of electrically conducting salt-water. This hypothesis was bolstered recently by a new analysis of how Callisto creates and dissipates heat.
![Звездное скопление R136](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/08/31/0001170568/30Doradus_hst.preview.jpg)
30.07.2001
In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. Known as R136, the cluster's energetic stars are breaking out of the cocoon of gas and dust from which they formed.
![M57: туманность Кольцо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/03/22/0001188073/m57ring_hst.preview.jpg)
29.07.2001
Except for the rings of Saturn, the Ring Nebula (M57) is probably the most famous celestial band. This planetary nebula's simple, graceful appearance is thought to be due to perspective -- our view from planet Earth looking straight into what is actually a barrel-shaped cloud of gas shrugged off by a dying central star.
![Дневной болид в 1944 году](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/08/26/0001170526/meteor44_appleton.preview.jpg)
28.07.2001
While stationed in central Africa in December 1944, Norman Appleton witnessed a meteor so bright he remembered it his entire life. Right before his eyes a tremendous smoking fireball streaked across the daytime sky. Years later, as an accomplished member of the Guild
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