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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Полуночное солнечное затмение](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/06/03/0001252016/PSELaplandJun2011_3beldea900.preview.jpg)
3.06.2011
On June 1, the shadow of the New Moon was cast across a land of the midnight Sun in this year's second partial solar eclipse. This picture of the geocentric celestial event above the Arctic Circle was taken near midnight from northern Finland's Kaunispää Hill in Lapland.
![Звёздная ночь Индевора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/06/02/0001251998/iss028e006193_950.preview.jpg)
2.06.2011
This luminous night view of the space shuttle orbiter Endeavour, docked with the International Space Station for a final time, was captured on May 28. Orbiting 350 kilometers above planet Earth, Endeavour's payload bay is lit up as it hurtles through Earth's shadow at 27,000 miles per hour.
![Вращающаяся Земля под Очень Большими Телескопами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/06/01/0001251977/rotate-vid.preview.png)
1.06.2011
Why is the Earth moving in the above video? Most time lapse videos of the night sky show the stars and sky moving above a steady Earth. Here, however, the frames have been digitally rotated so that it is the stars that stay (approximately) steady, and the Earth that moves beneath them.
![Джеты в необычной галактике Центавр А](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/31/0001251959/cenAjets_many_900.preview.jpg)
31.05.2011
Jets of streaming plasma expelled by the central black hole of a massive spiral galaxy light up this composite image of Centaurus A. The jets emanating from Cen A are over a million light years long. Exactly how the central black hole expels infalling matter is still unknown.
![Последняя панорама Марса, снятая марсоходом Спирит](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/30/0001251941/lastpan2_spirit_1155.preview.jpg)
30.05.2011
This is the last thing that the Spirit rover on Mars ever saw. Operating years beyond original expectations, Spirit eventually got mired in martian dirt and then ran out of power when investigating the unusual Home Plate surface feature on Mars.
![Комета между фейерверком и молнией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/30/0001251942/mcnaught3_kemppainen_1744.preview.jpg)
29.05.2011
Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance.
![Пробег света в милях](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/29/0001251933/OdometerC_Mammana900.preview.jpg)
28.05.2011
If you're driving down a dark road on a starry night, you might want to check the odometer. Earlier this month, when traveling astronomer Dennis Mammana did he was greeted with the significant mileage reading of 186,282 miles. That's the number of miles light travels in one second.
![Марафон Мессье](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/27/0001251884/MilkyWayObservers_tafreshi1100.preview.jpg)
27.05.2011
In this action scene, red night vision lights, green laser pointers, tripods and telescopes in faint silhouette surround intrepid sky gazers embarked on the 10th annual Iran Messier Marathon. Completing the marathon requires viewing all 110 objects in 18th century French astronomer Charles Messier's catalog in one glorious dusk-to-dawn observing run.
![Соната сверхновых](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/26/0001251875/SupernovaSonata_parker900.preview.jpg)
26.05.2011
To create a sonata from supernovae, first you have to find the supernovae. To do that composers Alex Parker and Melissa Graham relied on the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Legacy Survey data of four deep fields on the sky monitored from April 2003 through August 2006, adopting 241 Type Ia supernovae.
![Взлёт космического шаттла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/25/0001251852/shuttleplume_sts134_900.preview.jpg)
25.05.2011
What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. If you looked out the window of an airplane at just the right place and time last week, you could have seen something very unusual -- the space shuttle Endeavour launching to orbit.
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