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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![У края Улитки](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192289/helixF_hst_big.preview.gif)
20.07.1997
While exploring the inner edge of the Helix Nebula with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, astronomers were able to produce this striking image - rich in details of an exotic environment.
![Малое Магелланово Облако](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/10/25/0001194398/smc_uks.preview.gif)
19.07.1997
The southern sky contains wonders almost unknown in the north. These wonders include the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds: small irregular galaxies orbiting our own larger Milky Way spiral galaxy. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), pictured here, is about 250,000 light years away.
![Голубые звезды и красные столбы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192287/m16_cfa_big.preview.gif)
18.07.1997
Bright blue stars are still forming in the red pillars of the Eagle Nebula. Made famous by a picture from the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, the Eagle Nebula shows the dramatic process of star formation. To the upper right of the nebula in the above picture lies the heart of the open cluster M16.
![Послание с Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192286/etmessage_nrao.preview.gif)
17.07.1997
What are these Earthlings trying to tell us? The above message was broadcast from Earth towards the globular star cluster M13 in 1974. During the dedication of the Arecibo Observatory - still the largest radio telescope in the world - a string of 1's and 0's representing the above diagram was sent.
![Марс: Йоги и друзья в стерео](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/05/0001219188/mars10_st_path_big.preview.jpg)
16.07.1997
A ramp from the Pathfinder lander, the Sojourner robot rover, airbags, a couch, Barnacle Bill, and Yogi Rock appear together in this 3D stereo view of the surface of Mars. Barnacle Bill is the rock just left of the solar-paneled Sojourner and Yogi is the big friendly-looking boulder at the right.
![Вега](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192284/vega_dm.preview.jpg)
15.07.1997
Vega is a bright blue star 25 light years away. Vega is the brightest star in the Summer Triangle, a group of stars easily visible summer evenings in the northern hemisphere. The name Vega...
![Марс: Твин Пикс в стерео](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192283/mars9_st_path_big.preview.jpg)
14.07.1997
Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze across the surface of Mars in stereo. You are looking south of west across an ancient flood channel, Ares Vallis, landing site of the Mars Pathfinder.
![Остаток вспышки сверхновой Паруса в оптическом диапазоне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192282/vela_roe.preview.gif)
13.07.1997
About 11,000 years ago a star in the constellation of Vela exploded. This bright supernova may have been visible to the first human farmers. Today the Vela supernova remnant marks the position of a relatively close and recent explosion in our Galaxy. A roughly spherical, expanding shock wave is visible in X-rays.
![Обреченная звезда Эта Киля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192281/etacarinae_hst2.preview.gif)
12.07.1997
Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when - it may be next year, it may be one million years from now. Eta Carinae's mass - about 100 times greater than our Sun - make it an excellent candidate for a full blown supernova.
![Камень Йоги](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192280/mars8_pathfinder_big.preview.jpg)
11.07.1997
This portrait of Yogi Rock, a now famous boulder on Mars, was recorded on Sol 3 by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP). Big and friendly looking like its Earth cartoon namesake Yogi Bear, Yogi Rock is a prominent visible feature at the Pathfinder landing site.
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