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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Аполлон-17: последние на Луне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/19/0001210482/as17-140-21391c1.preview.jpg)
17.12.2005
In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon, in the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. Near the beginning of their...
![Взгляд на Млечный Путь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/16/0001210355/galPlane_spitzer_f25.preview.jpg)
16.12.2005
Scroll right and gaze through the dusty plane of our Milky Way Galaxy in infrared light. The cosmic panorama is courtesy of the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) project and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
![Осенняя Луна на бис](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/19/0001210480/encore_doescher_f52.preview.jpg)
15.12.2005
Near its northernmost declination, tonight's Full Moon will be a special one, arcing high in northern hemisphere skies. But a Full Moon won't occur on this calendar date for another 19 years, a period known as the lunar Metonic cycle.
![Марсоход Оппортьюнити: цифровой монтаж](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/14/0001210324/enduranceplus_opportunity.preview.jpg)
14.12.2005
If you could see one of the robot rovers currently rolling across Mars, what would it look like? To gain this perspective useful in planning explorations, the above synthetic image was produced digitally. Above...
![Вид на Рею с высоты 620 километров](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/13/0001210321/rheacloseup_cassini.preview.jpg)
13.12.2005
What does the surface of Saturn's moon Rhea look like? To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn was directed to fly right past the second largest moon of the gas giant planet late last month.
![30 Золотой Рыбы: зона Тарантула](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/12/0001210188/tarantula_ctio.preview.jpg)
12.12.2005
The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1,000 light-years across - a giant emission nebula within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. Inside this cosmic arachnid lies a central young cluster of massivestars, cataloged as R136, whose intense radiation and strong winds have helped energize the nebular glow and shape the spidery filaments.
![R136: массивные звезды 30 Золотой Рыбы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/11/0001210181/tarantula_hst.preview.jpg)
11.12.2005
In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. These stars, known as the star cluster R136, and part of the surrounding nebula are captured here in this gorgeous visible-light image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
![Последний полет на Луну](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/10/0001210155/ap17ksc_72pc589_c1.preview.jpg)
10.12.2005
In 1865 Jules Verne predicted the invention of a space capsule that could carry people. His science fiction story "From the Earth to the Moon" outlined his vision of a cannon in Florida so powerful that it could shoot a Projectile-Vehicle carrying three adventurers to the Moon.
![Встреча декабрьской Луны с Вечерней звездой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/15/0001210345/moonvenus3_bush_c81.preview.jpg)
9.12.2005
If you've been outdoors near sunset, then you've probably noticed Venus low in the west as the brilliant evening star. Sometimes mistaken for a tower light near the horizon, Venus is the third brightest celestial beacon, after the Sun and Moon, in planet Earth's sky.
![Рентгеновское излучение ядра скопления в Персее](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/08/0001210090/perseusCluster_cxc_c.preview.jpg)
8.12.2005
The Perseus Cluster of thousands of galaxies, 250 million light-years distant, is one of the most massive objects in the Universe and the brightest galaxy cluster in the x-ray sky. At its core lies the giant cannibal galaxy Perseus A (NGC 1275), accreting matter as gas and galaxies fall into it.
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