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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Провал в ущелье Хебес на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/12/0001319050/HebesChasma_esa_960.preview.jpg)
12.08.2014
What's happened in Hebes Chasma on Mars? Hebes Chasma is a depression just north of the enormous Valles Marineris canyon. Since the depression is unconnected to other surface features, it is unclear where the internal material went.
![Розетта приближается к комете Чурюмова-Герасименко](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/11/0001318975/com.preview.jpg)
11.08.2014
What does it look like to approach a comet? Early this month humanity received a new rendition as the robotic Rosetta spacecraft went right up to -- and began orbiting -- the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
![Метеор внизу](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/10/0001318949/perseid_iss_960.preview.jpg)
10.08.2014
Denizens of planet Earth typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on August 13, 2011 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid meteor by looking down. From Garan...
![Ночное свечение](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/09/0001318910/BioluminescenceMW_PhilHart1024.preview.jpg)
9.08.2014
What shines in the world at night? Just visible to the eye, a rare electric blue glow spread along the shores of Victoria Lake on January 16, 2013. Against reflections of a light near the horizon, this digitally stacked long exposure recorded the bioluminescence of noctiluca scintillans, plankton stimulated by the lapping waves.
![Спиральная галактика NGC 6744](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/10/0001318950/NGC6744goldman950.preview.jpg)
8.08.2014
Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo. We see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of sight.
![Свидание Розетты](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/09/03/0001320847/comet_on_3_august_2014.preview.jpg)
7.08.2014
On August 3rd, the Rosetta spacecraft's narrow angle camera captured this stunning image of the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. After 10 years and 6.5 billion kilometers of travel along gravity assist trajectories looping through interplanetary space, Rosetta had approached to within 285 kilometers of its target.
![Вихрь из облаков на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/06/0001318667/PIA14946SaturnNPcassini.preview.jpg)
6.08.2014
Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole. The composite of near-infrared image data results in red hues for low clouds and green for high ones, giving the Saturnian cloudscape a vivid appearance.
![Четыре миллиарда лет до нашей эры: разбитая Земля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/07/0001318751/HadeanEarth_swri_960.preview.jpg)
5.08.2014
No place on Earth was safe. Four billion years ago, during the Hadean eon, our Solar System was a dangerous shooting gallery of large and dangerous rocks and ice chunks. Recent examination of lunar...
![Тени и струи над Энцеладом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/07/0001318754/enceladusshadow_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
4.08.2014
Why does Enceladus have ice plumes? The discovery of jets spewing water vapor and ice was detected by the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft in 2005. The origin of the water feeding the jets, however, remained a topic of research.
![Приближение тёмного шаттла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/03/0001318482/shuttleapproaching_nasa_960.preview.jpg)
3.08.2014
What's that approaching? Astronauts on board the International Space Station first saw it in early 2010 far in the distance. Soon it enlarged to become a dark silhouette. As it came even closer, the silhouette appeared to be a spaceship.
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