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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Очертания Энцелада](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/12/0001251673/CassiniPIA12800Enceladus900c.preview.jpg)
12.05.2011
A sunlit crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus looms above the night side of Saturn in this dramatic image from the Cassini spacecraft. Captured on August 13, 2010 looking in a sunward direction during...
![Южный утёс в Лагуне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/11/0001251656/M8_rim2geminicrop600.preview.jpg)
11.05.2011
Undulating bright ridges and dusty clouds cross this close-up of the nearby star forming region M8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula. A sharp, false-color composite of narrow band visible and broad band near-infrared...
![Спутник Gravity Probe B подтвердил наличие гравимагнетизма](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/10/0001251648/earthsatart_gpb_900.preview.jpg)
10.05.2011
Does gravity have a magnetic counterpart? Spin any electric charge and you get a magnetic field. Spin any mass and, according to Einstein, you should get a very slight effect that acts something like magnetism. This effect is expected to be so small that it is beyond practical experience and ground laboratory measurement.
![Чудеса и загадки над Очень большими телескопами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/09/0001251636/vltsky_beletsky_2198.preview.jpg)
9.05.2011
What's that bright orange dot above the large telescope on the right? Even seasoned sky enthusiasts might ponder the origin of the orange orb seen by scrolling across this panoramic image, taken last December. Perhaps identifying known objects will help.
![Тень марсианского робота](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/09/0001251634/marsshadow_opportunity_900.preview.jpg)
8.05.2011
What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the Opportunity rover currently exploring Mars. Opportunity and sister robot Spirit have been probing the red planet since early 2004, finding evidence of ancient water, and sending breathtaking images across the inner Solar System.
![Планеты на рассвете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/08/0001251624/IMG_0091_argerich600.preview.jpg)
7.05.2011
This month, four of the five naked-eye planets gather along the eastern horizon near dawn. The celestial grouping is seen here just before sunrise on May 5, from a beach near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Starting near the top of the frame, the brightest beacon is Venus.
![Все дальше и дальше](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/08/0001251623/PIA14112fartherC600H.preview.jpg)
6.05.2011
What is humanity's most distant spacecraft? Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 now holds that distinction at 17.5 billion kilometers from the Sun. That corresponds to 16 light-hours or 117 Astronomical Units (AU). This...
![50 лет назад: полёт "Свободы-7"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/05/0001251565/freedom7redstone900.preview.jpg)
5.05.2011
Fifty years ago, near the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers "lit the candle" and sent Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard arcing into space atop a Redstone rocket. His cramped space capsule was dubbed Freedom 7.
![Следы небесных тел над Грецией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/04/0001251553/trails-greece.preview.png)
4.05.2011
If you watch the horizon at just the right place and at just the right time, you can witness some spectacular juxtapositions between Earth and sky. In the above video, stars, the Moon, and even a partially eclipsed Sun were recorded rising and setting over photogenic landmarks in Greece.
![Шаровое скопление M15 с телескопа имени Хаббла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/03/0001251540/m15_hst_900.preview.jpg)
3.05.2011
Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright globular cluster M15. This ball of over 100,000 stars is a relic from the early years of our Galaxy, and continues to orbit the Milky Way's center.
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