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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Встреча кометы с туманностью Кольцо: часть II](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/12/0001214099/c73pM57_walker_c46r.preview.jpg)
12.05.2006
Moving rapidly through planet Earth's night sky, Fragment C of crumbling comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 passed almost directly in front of M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296 on May 8.
![Встреча кометы с туманностью Кольцо: часть I](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/12/0001214100/c73pM57_seip_c53.preview.jpg)
11.05.2006
As dawn approached on May 8, astronomer Stefan Seip carefully watched Fragment C of broken comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 approach M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296. Of course, even though...
![Большое Магелланово Облако](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/10/0001214047/lmc_whw.preview.jpg)
10.05.2006
Portuguese navigator Fernando de Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two fuzzy cloud-like objects easily visible for southern hemisphere skygazers are known as the Clouds of Magellan.
![Растущая каменная плита в вулкане Св.Елены](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/10/0001214042/slabsthelens_usgs.preview.jpg)
9.05.2006
A new rock slab is growing at more than one meter a day on the Mt. St. Helens volcano in Washington, USA. The rock slab, growing since last November, now extends about 100 meters out from one of the volcano's craters. A recently made time lapse movie shows the rock slab growing.
![Панорама при спуске на спутник Сатурна Титан](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/10/0001214046/titan5km_huygens.preview.jpg)
8.05.2006
You're the first spacecraft ever to descend to Titan -- what do you see? Immediately after the Huygen's probe pierced the cloud deck of Saturn's moon Titan last January, it took a unique series of pictures of one of the Solar System's most mysterious moon's.
![NGC 2440: кокон нового белого карлика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/10/0001214043/ngc2440_hst4.preview.jpg)
7.05.2006
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!
![Три галактики в созвездии Дракона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/16/0001214136/draco3_heutz_f50.preview.jpg)
6.05.2006
This intriguing trio of galaxies is sometimes called the NGC 5985/Draco Group and so (quite reasonably) is located in the northern constellation Draco. From left to right are face-on spiral NGC 5985, elliptical galaxy...
![Юпитер и Красные пятна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/05/0001213904/redspot2_hst_c68.preview.jpg)
5.05.2006
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a swirling storm seen for over 300 years, since the beginning of telescopic observations. But in February 2006, planetary imager Christopher Go noticed it had been joined by Red Spot Jr - formed as smaller whitish oval-shaped storms merged and then developed the remarkable reddish hue.
![Комета Швассмана-Вахмана 3: фрагмент B](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/04/0001213889/fragb_73p_hst_c.preview.jpg)
4.05.2006
Periodic comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 has fallen apart before. A cosmic souffle of ice and dust left over from the early solar system, this comet was seen to split into several large pieces during the close-in part of its orbit in 1995.
![Золотистый и голубой Сатурн](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/03/0001213813/saturn4_cassini.preview.jpg)
3.05.2006
Why is Saturn partly blue? The above picture of Saturn approximates what a human would see if hovering close to the giant ringed world. The above picture was taken in mid-March by the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn. Here Saturn's majestic rings appear directly only as a thin vertical line.
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