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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Один день после равноденствия](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/22/0001239723/equinoxp1_orman.preview.jpg)
21.03.2010
Twice a year, at the Spring and Fall equinox, the Sun rises due east. In an emphatic demonstration of this celestial alignment, photographer Joe Orman recorded this inspiring image of the Sun rising exactly along the east-west oriented Western Canal, in Tempe, Arizona, USA.
![Зодиакальный свет и Млечный путь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/21/0001239707/01_zodiacal_lactea_DLopez600h.preview.jpg)
20.03.2010
Ghostly Zodiacal light, featured near the center of this remarkable panorama, is produced as sunlight is scattered by dust in the Solar System's ecliptic plane. In the weeks surrounding the March equinox (today...
![Чайка и Утка](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/19/0001239682/mb_2010-03-10_SeaGullThor900.preview.jpg)
19.03.2010
Seen as a seagull and a duck, these nebulae are not the only cosmic clouds to evoke images of flight. But both are winging their way across this broad celestial landscape, spanning almost 7 degrees across planet Earth's night sky toward the constellation Canis Major.
![Ферми регистрирует источники на гамма-небе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/18/0001239670/Fermi1FGLsky.preview.jpg)
18.03.2010
What shines in the gamma-ray sky? The most complete answer yet to that question is offered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's first all-sky catalog. Fermi's sources of cosmic gamma-rays feature nature...
![Фобос. Каким его увидел Марс-Экспресс](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/17/0001239654/phobos1_marsexpress.preview.jpg)
17.03.2010
Why is this small object orbiting Mars? The origin of Phobos, the larger of the two moons orbiting Mars, remains unknown. Phobos and Deimos appear very similar to C-type asteroids, yet gravitationally capturing such asteroids, circularizing their orbits, and dragging them into Mars' equatorial plane seems unlikely.
![Солнечная корона в подробностях](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/16/0001239639/corona_druckmuller.preview.jpg)
16.03.2010
Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible. Normally overwhelmed by the bright solar disk, the expansive corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, is an alluring sight.
![Облака над Грецией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/15/0001239613/cloudtrails_kotsiopoulos.preview.jpg)
15.03.2010
It may appear to be day, but it's night. Those wondrous orange streaks may appear to be rays from the setting Sun, but they're actually thin clouds illuminated by the Moon as they quickly streaked toward the distant horizon.
![Двойная черная дыра в 3C 75](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/15/0001239614/3c75_chandra.preview.jpg)
14.03.2010
What's happening in the middle of this massive galaxy? There, two bright sources at the center of this composite x-ray (blue)/radio (pink) image are thought to be co-orbiting supermassive black holes powering the giant radio source 3C 75.
![Центавр A](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/15/0001239608/centaurusA_carruthers_c900.preview.jpg)
13.03.2010
Only 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth. Spanning over 60,000 light-years, the peculiar elliptical galaxy, also known as NGC 5128, is featured in this sharp color image.
![Космический телескоп "Джеймс Вебб": зеркала и люди в масках](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/13/0001239575/XRCF1_smith900.preview.jpg)
12.03.2010
Who are these masked men? Technicians from Ball Aerospace and NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center's X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, of course, testing primary mirror segments of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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