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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Поднятие Комптона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191223/gro8_st37_big.preview.jpg)
6.06.1997
Even great observatories need a boost from time to time -- including the orbiting Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. Sparkling reflections and the bright limb of the Earth are visible in this 1991 window view of Compton's release into orbit by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
![Маленькая звезда](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191222/gl623_hst_big.preview.jpg)
5.06.1997
A dim double star system cataloged as Gliese 623 lies 25 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Hercules. The individual stars of this binary system were distinguished for the first time when the Hubble Space Telescope's Faint Object Camera recorded this image in June 1994.
![Тарантул](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191221/tarantula2_saao.preview.jpg)
4.06.1997
NGC 2070 is an immense star forming region in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its spidery appearance is responsible for its popular name, "The Tarantula Nebula", except that this tarantula is about 1,000 light-years across, and 165,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado.
![Как будто расплавленная поверхность Венеры](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191220/venus3_mag_big.preview.jpg)
3.06.1997
If you could look at Venus with radar eyes - this is what you might see. This computer reconstruction of the surface of Venus was created from data from the Magellan spacecraft. Magellan orbited Venus and used radar to map our neighboring planet's surface between 1990 and 1994.
![Яркие звездные сгустки в NGC4038](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/06/30/0001214709/ngc4039_hst_big.preview.jpg)
2.06.1997
This galaxy is having a bad millennium. In fact, the past 100 million years haven't been so good, and probably the next billion or so should be quite tumultuous. NGC 4039 was a normal spiral galaxy, minding its own business, when NGC 4038 crashed into it.
![M100: великолепный рисунок](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191218/m100_hst_big.preview.gif)
1.06.1997
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.
![Сатурн, Тефия и Диона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191217/satmoons_vg1_big.preview.gif)
31.05.1997
Saturn and two of its larger moons - Tethys and Dione - were photographed by the Voyager 1 spacecraft which flew by the planet in November of 1980. This picture gives an indication of Saturn's extensive ring system, which can be seen casting a shadow on the planet, as does Tethys.
![Космический снежок](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191216/cr61_polar_big.preview.jpg)
30.05.1997
Like cosmic snowballs, fluffy comet-like objects the size of houses and composed mostly of water-ice, may be pummeling planet Earth 5 to 30 times a minute. This controversial theory was originally proposed in 1986 by Dr. Louis Frank (U. Iowa) based on data from NASA's Dynamics Explorer 1.
![Южное полушарие Нептуна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191215/neptune_south_vg2_big.preview.gif)
29.05.1997
Neptune, the Solar System's outermost gas giant planet, is 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth. Twelve years after a 1977 launch, Voyager 2 flew by Neptune and found surprising activity on a planet that receives only 3 percent as much sunlight as Jupiter.
![Марс: только фантастика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191214/marsglobe3_viking_big.preview.jpg)
28.05.1997
For centuries, astronomers have observed Mars, patiently compiling many facts and theories. Like a distant mirror of Earth dwellers' hopes and fears for the future, Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, has inspired profound works of fiction as well.
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