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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Зодиакальный свет](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/02/18/0001211663/zodiacal_dm.preview.jpg)
13.06.1999
Sometimes the sky itself seems to glow. Usually, this means you are seeing a cloud reflecting sunlight or moonlight. If the glow appears as a faint band of light running across the whole sky, you are probably seeing the combined light from the billions of stars that compose our Milky Way Galaxy.
![Венера: пролетая мимо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/02/18/0001211658/venus1_gal_big.preview.gif)
12.06.1999
Venus, the second closest planet to the Sun, is a popular way-point for spacecraft headed for the gas giant planets in the outer reaches of the solar system. Why visit Venus first? Using...
![AB Возничего: как сделать планеты?](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/02/18/0001211662/abaurigae_hst_big.preview.jpg)
11.06.1999
This enhanced Hubble Space Telescope image shows in remarkable detail the inner portion of the disk of dust and gas surrounding the star AB Aurigae. Knots of material, visible here for the first time...
![Ударный кратер Мёлнир](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/02/18/0001211664/hammer_tsikalas_big.preview.gif)
10.06.1999
The stark surface of Earth's moon is pocked with large craters, records of a history of fierce bombardment by the solar system's formative debris. It may be difficult to imagine, but nearby planet Earth itself has endured a similar cosmic pounding, though oceans, weathering, and geological
![NGC 4414: сказочная спиральная галактика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/07/0001210848/ngc4414_heritage_big.preview.jpg)
9.06.1999
How far away is this galaxy? Cosmologists the world over have been working hard to find out. Spiral galaxy NGC 4414 contains many Cepheid variable stars that oscillate in a way that allows astronomers to estimate their distance.
![Столбы и джеты в Трехраздельной туманности](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/07/0001210847/trifid_hst_big.preview.jpg)
8.06.1999
Dust pillars are like interstellar mountains. They survive because they are more dense than their surroundings, but they are being slowly eroded away by a hostile environment. Visible in the above picture...
![Звездообразование в Трехраздельной туманности](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/09/28/0001199724/trifid_hst_big.preview.jpg)
7.06.1999
Tremendous pillars of gas and dust are being boiled away in the Trifid Nebula. In the center of the picturesque Trifid lies a young hot star, located above and to the right of this picture. As soon as it was born, the massive star scorched its surroundings with bright and
![Как Кеплер открывает законы движения планет](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/07/0001210846/kepler_hist_big.preview.gif)
6.06.1999
Johannes Kepler used simple mathematics to describe how planets move. Kepler was an assistant to the most accurate astronomical observer of the time, Tycho Brahe. Kepler was able to use Brahe's data...
![Бетельгейзе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/06/0001210845/betelgeuse_hst_big.preview.jpg)
5.06.1999
Betelgeuse (sounds a lot like "beetle juice"), a red supergiant star about 600 light years distant, is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image - the first direct picture of the surface of a star other than the Sun. While Betelgeuse is cooler than the Sun, it is more massive and over 1000 times larger.
![NGC 3603: от начала до конца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/06/0001210844/ngc3603_hst_big.preview.jpg)
4.06.1999
From beginning to end, different stages of a star's life appear in this exciting Hubble Space Telescope picture of the environs of galactic emission nebula NGC 3603. For the beginning, eye-catching "pillars" of glowing hydrogen at the right signal newborn stars emerging from their dense, gaseous, nurseries.
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