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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
!["Тигровые полосы" на Энцеладе: вид с Кассини](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/14/0001231354/enceladus8_cassini.preview.jpg)
14.10.2008
What creates the unusual tiger stripes on Saturn's moon Enceladus? No one is sure. To help find out, scientists programmed the robotic Cassini spacecraft to dive right past the plume-spewing moon last week.
![Кассини пролетает сквозь ледяные гейзеры Энцелада](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/13/0001231342/enceladus9_cassini.preview.jpg)
13.10.2008
What telling impurities taint the ice plumes of Enceladus? To help answer this question, the robotic Cassini spacecraft dove last week to within 30 kilometers of Saturn's ice-plume emitting moon. At this closest-ever...
![Спиральная галактика NGC 3370: вид в телескоп Хаббла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/13/0001231346/ngc3370_hst.preview.jpg)
12.10.2008
Is this what our own Milky Way Galaxy looks like from far away? Similar in size and grand design to our home Galaxy (although without the central bar), spiral galaxy NGC 3370 lies about 100 million light-years away toward the constellation of the Lion (Leo).
![Яркий болид](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/13/0001231347/20080930bolide_edin_small.preview.jpg)
11.10.2008
On September 30, a spectacular bolide or fireball meteor surprised a group of amateur astronomers enjoying dark night skies over the Oklahoma panhandle's Black Mesa State Park in the Midwestern US. Flashing past...
![Неправильная галактика NGC 55](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/10/0001231307/NGC55_gendler_c800.preview.jpg)
10.10.2008
Irregular galaxy NGC 55 is thought to be similar to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). But while the LMC is about 180,000 light-years away and is a well known satellite of our own Milky Way Galaxy, NGC 55 is more like 6 million light-years distant and is a member of the Sculptor Galaxy Group.
![Массивные звезды в NGC 6357](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/09/0001231288/NGC6357_schedler_c800.preview.jpg)
9.10.2008
Massive Stars lie within NGC 6357, an expansive emission nebula complex some 8,000 light-years away in the tail of the constellation Scorpius. In fact, positioned just below center in this close-up view...
!["Мессенджер" показывает Меркурий](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/13/0001231348/mercuryflyby2_messenger.preview.jpg)
8.10.2008
The planet Mercury has been known since history has been recorded, but parts of the Solar System's innermost planet have never been seen like this before. Two days ago the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft buzzed past Mercury for the second time and imaged terrain mapped previously only by comparatively crude radar.
![Пылевые горы в туманности Киля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/07/0001231265/ngc3324_hst.preview.jpg)
7.10.2008
Bright young stars sometimes sculpt picturesque dust mountains soon after being born. Created quite by accident, the energetic light and winds from these massive newborn stars burn away accumulations of dark dust and cool gas in a slow but persistent manner.
![Ярусы скал на севере Марса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/06/0001231254/marslayers_hirise.preview.jpg)
6.10.2008
How did these layers of red cliffs form on Mars? No one is sure. The northern ice cap on Mars is nearly divided into two by a huge division named Chasma Boreale. No similar formation occurs on Earth. Pictured above, several dusty layers leading into this deep chasm are visible.
![Земля ночью](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/06/0001231255/earthlights2_dmsp.preview.jpg)
5.10.2008
This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan.
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