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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Вид с плато Чахнантор](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/11/23/0001254777/SGU-ALMA-IMG_0013-2400-cp10.preview.jpg)
23.11.2011
From an altitude of over 5,000 meters, the night sky view from Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes is breathtaking in more ways than one. The dark site's rarefied atmosphere, at about 50 percent sea level pressure, is also extremely dry.
![Метеор из потока Леонид над Тенерифе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/11/22/0001254769/LEO20111118_0426_rendtel900.preview.jpg)
22.11.2011
Historically active, this year's Leonid meteor shower was diminished by bright moonlight. Still, faithful night sky watchers did see the shower peak on November 18 and even the glare of moonlight didn't come close to masking this brilliant fireball meteor.
![Вокруг света за 90 минут](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/14/0001255117/earth-circling.preview.png)
21.11.2011
What is it like to circle the Earth? Every 90 minutes, astronauts aboard the International Space Station experience just that. Recently, crew members took a series of light-sensitive videos looking down at night that have been digitally fused to produce the above time-lapse video.
![W5: столбы звездообразования](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/11/21/0001254757/w5_spitzer_900.preview.jpg)
20.11.2011
How do stars form? A study of star forming region W5 by the sun-orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope provides clear clues by recording that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges.
![В волчьей пещере](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/11/19/0001254741/vdb152_lodriguss_900.preview.jpg)
19.11.2011
The mysterious blue reflection nebula found in catalogs as VdB 152 or Ced 201 really is very faint. It lies at the tip of the long dark nebula Barnard 175 in a dusty complex that has also been called Wolf's Cave.
![Цветная сторона Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/14/0001255118/WAC_CSHADE_O000N1800_800.preview.jpg)
18.11.2011
This colorful topographical map of the Moon is centered on the lunar farside, the side not seen from planet Earth. That view is available to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter though, as the spacecraft's wide angle camera images almost the entire lunar surface every month.
![От Плеяд до Гиад](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/11/17/0001254695/PleiadesHyades_andreo600h.preview.jpg)
17.11.2011
This cosmic vista stretches almost 20 degrees across the gentle constellation Taurus. It begins at the Pleiades and ends at the Hyades, two of the best known star clusters in planet Earth's sky. At left, the lovely Pleiades star cluster is about 400 light-years away.
![NGC 7822 в созвездии Цефея](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/11/16/0001254686/NGC7822_fernandez1000.preview.jpg)
16.11.2011
Hot, young stars and cosmic pillars of gas and dust seem to crowd into NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, the glowing star forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away. Within the nebula, bright edges and dark shapes are highlighted in this colorful skyscape.
![Искрящееся оранжевое Солнце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/11/15/0001254653/sun_friedman_900.preview.jpg)
15.11.2011
Our Sun is becoming a busy place. Taken just last week, the Sun was captured sporting numerous interesting features including one of the larger sunspot groups yet recorded: AR 1339 visible on the image right. Only last year, the Sun was emerging from an unusually quiet Solar Minimum that lasted for years.
![Водопад, лунная радуга и полярное сияние в Исландии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/11/14/0001254630/moonbow_vetter_900.preview.jpg)
14.11.2011
The longer you look at this image, the more you see. Perhaps your eye is first drawn to the picturesque waterfall called Skogarfoss visible on the image right. Just as prevalent, however, in this Icelandic visual extravaganza, is the colorful arc of light on the left.
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