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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Луна или сковородка?](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/01/0001283993/paneuropa_960.preview.jpg)
1.04.2013
Which is which? Of the two images shown above, one is a moon in our Solar System, while the other is the bottom of frying pan. We are not making this up -- can you tell a pan from a planetoid? Think you got it? To find the answer click here. OK, but there are more!
![Ночной полет над Землей](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/01/0001283988/earth.preview.jpg)
31.03.2013
Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city lights, lightning flashes in thunderstorms, and dark blue seas.
![Широкий хвост кометы PanSTARRS](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/30/0001283878/com38h+NOmodel_900.preview.jpg)
30.03.2013
For northern hemisphere skygazers, fading Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) still hangs above the western horzion, after sunset but before moonrise in the coming days. Its perspective from planet Earth continues to reveal the comet's broad dust tail.
![Кольца Сатурна и Рея](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/29/0001283747/PIA12771_c900.preview.jpg)
29.03.2013
Orbiting in the plane of Saturn's rings, Saturnian moons have a perpetual ringside view of the gas giant planet. Of course, while passing near the ring plane the Cassini spacecraft also shares their stunning perspective. The thin rings themselves slice across the middle of this Cassini snapshot from April 2011.
![Распутывающаяся галактика NGC 3169](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/28/0001283661/n3169_0block900.preview.jpg)
28.03.2013
Bright spiral galaxy NGC 3169 appears to be unraveling in this cosmic scene, played out some 70 million light-years away just below bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans. Its beautiful spiral arms...
![Горизонтальная радуга над Парижем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/27/0001283590/rainbowparis_kulik_960.preview.jpg)
27.03.2013
Why is this horizon so colorful? Because, opposite the Sun, it is raining. What is pictured above is actually just a common rainbow. It's uncommon appearance is caused by the Sun being unusually high in the sky during the rainbow's creation.
![Водопады, полярные сияния и комета над Исландией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/26/0001283505/aurorafallscomet_vetter_960.preview.jpg)
26.03.2013
If not distracted by the picturesque landscape, waterfalls, stars, and auroras, you might be able to find Comet PANSTARRS. The above image, capturing multiple terrestrial and celestial wonders in a single shot, was taken last week in southwest Iceland.
![Карта реликтового излучения от космического эксперимента Планк](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/25/0001283429/cmbr_planck_960.preview.jpg)
25.03.2013
What is our universe made of? To help find out, ESA launched the Planck satellite to map, in unprecedented detail, slight temperature differences on the oldest surface known -- the background sky left billions of years ago when our universe first became transparent to light.
![Пылевой столб в туманности Киля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/24/0001283380/carina06_hubble_960.preview.jpg)
24.03.2013
Inside the head of this interstellar monster is a star that is slowly destroying it. The monster, actually an inanimate pillar of gas and dust, measures over a light year in length. The star, not itself visible through the opaque dust, is bursting out partly by ejecting energetic beams of particles.
![Инфракрасный портрет Большого Магелланова Облака](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/23/0001283259/PIA15254_LMC900c.preview.jpg)
23.03.2013
Cosmic dust clouds ripple across this infrared portrait of our Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. In fact, the remarkable composite image from the Herschel Space Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope show that dust clouds fill this neighboring dwarf galaxy, much like dust along the plane of the Milky Way itself.
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