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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Когда Луна была молодая](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/13/0001205781/YoungMoon0_seip_f62.preview.jpg)
13.05.2005
Remember when the Moon was young? It was just last Monday. On May 9th, this slender crescent Moon was recorded at a tender age of 34 hours and 18 minutes. Well, OK ... when calculating...
![Звезды, галактики и комета Темпель 1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/12/0001205773/Tempel20_schedler_c.preview.jpg)
12.05.2005
Faint comet Tempel 1 sports a fuzzy blue-tinted tail, just right of center in this lovely field of stars. Recorded on May 3rd slowly sweeping through the constellation Virgo, periodic comet Tempel 1 orbits the Sun once every 5.5 years.
![Галактика Сомбреро в ИК-диапазоне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/11/0001205762/sombrero_spitzer.preview.jpg)
11.05.2005
This floating ring is the size of a galaxy. In fact, it is part of the photogenic Sombrero Galaxy, one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. The dark band of dust that obscures the mid-section of the Sombrero Galaxy in optical light actually glows brightly in infrared light.
![Первое изображение планеты вне солнечной системы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/11/0001205756/brownplanet_eso.preview.jpg)
10.05.2005
It's the faint red object, not the bright white one that might be a historic find. The white object is surely a brown dwarf star. Quite possibly, however, the red object is the first direct image of a planet beyond our Solar System.
![Звезды, пыль и туманность в NGC 6559](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/11/0001205755/ngc6559_cfht.preview.jpg)
9.05.2005
When stars form, pandemonium reigns. A textbook case is the star forming region NGC 6559. Visible above are red glowing emission nebulas of hydrogen, blue reflection nebulas of dust, dark absorption nebulas of dust, and the stars that formed from them.
![Дипольная анизотропия реликтового излучения: движение сквозь Вселенную](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/11/0001205754/dip_cobe_big.preview.jpg)
8.05.2005
Our Earth is not at rest. The Earth moves around the Sun. The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy orbits in the Local Group of Galaxies. The Local Group falls toward the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies.
![NGC 3314: когда галактики перекрываются](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/13/0001205783/ngc3314_keel.preview.jpg)
7.05.2005
NGC 3314 consists of two large spiral galaxies which just happen to almost exactly line-up. The foreground spiral is viewed nearly face-on, its pinwheel shape defined by young bright star clusters. But against the glow of the background galaxy, dark swirling lanes of interstellar dust are also seen to echo the face-on spiral's structure.
![Гибридное солнечное затмение](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/06/0001205498/hybrid_merge_1.preview.jpg)
6.05.2005
April's spectacular geocentric celestial event was a rare hybrid eclipse of the Sun - a total or an annular eclipse could be seen depending on the observer's location. For Fred Espenak, aboard...
![Мира: удивительная звезда](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/05/0001205476/mira_xray_cxc.preview.jpg)
5.05.2005
To seventeenth century astronomers, Omicron Ceti or Mira was known as a wonderful star - a star whose brightness could change dramatically in the course of about 11 months. Modern astronomers now recognize an entire class of long period Mira-type variables as cool, pulsating, red giant stars, 700 or so times the diameter of the Sun.
![Космический аппарат Кассини пересекает плоскость колец Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/04/0001205453/saturnplane_cassini.preview.jpg)
4.05.2005
If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane, the edge-on rings will appear to disappear.
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