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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Горы Альборца в лунном свете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/02/12/0001220753/alborzmountains_tafreshi_63.preview.jpg)
3.02.2007
On January 25th, light from a first quarter Moon illuminated this dreamlike landscape looking across the rugged, snow-covered peaks of the Alborz Mountain Range in northern Iran. The stunning sky is filled with stars, including the yellow-tinged Betelgeuse at the shoulder of Orion.
![Огненная туманность крупным планом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/01/12/0001237880/FlameNML_gendler_rc720.preview.jpg)
2.02.2007
Of course, the Flame Nebula is not on fire. Also known as NGC 2024, the nebula's suggestive reddish color is due to the glow of hydrogen atoms at the edge of the giant Orion molecular cloud complex some 1,500 light-years away.
![Хвост в двух полушариях](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/02/01/0001220568/mcnaught_deiriesfulle_comp720.preview.jpg)
1.02.2007
By January 19/20 Comet McNaught's magnificent dust tail stretched for about 150 million kilometers (~1 AU), requiring images from both southern and northern hemispheres of planet Earth to take it all in.
![Кассини пересекает плоскость колец Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/31/0001220562/ringcross_cassini.preview.jpg)
31.01.2007
What would the rings of Saturn look like if you passed right through the ring plane? To find out, NASA aimed cameras from the Cassini spacecraft right at Saturn's rings as the robotic explorer passed from the sunlit side of the rings to the shadowed side.
![Шлем Тора: вид в телескоп CFHT](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/30/0001220552/thor_cfht.preview.jpg)
30.01.2007
NGC 2359 is a striking emission nebula with an impressive popular name - Thor's Helmet Sure, its suggestive winged appearance might lead some to refer to it as the "duck nebula", but if you were a nebula which name would you choose?
![Зеленый луч над Италией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/29/0001220542/greenset_pivato.preview.jpg)
29.01.2007
How could the Sun turn green? Difficult to observe, the momentary green flash above the rising or setting sun has been documented as a phenomenon caused by the atmospheric bending or refraction of sunlight.
![Гиперион: спутник Сатурна со странными кратерами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/29/0001220538/hyperion2_cassini.preview.jpg)
28.01.2007
What lies at the bottom of Hyperion's strange craters? Nobody knows. To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn swooped past the sponge-textured moon in late 2005 and took an image of unprecedented detail.
![Замок и небо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/02/12/0001220752/castlesky_bellido_c720.preview.jpg)
27.01.2007
While Comet McNaught ruled southern skies, last week's conjunction of the Moon and Venus could be enjoyed by denizens of both hemispheres of planet Earth. The two more commonly viewed celestial beacons produced this lovely twilight scene, recorded last Saturday in skies above Almodovar near Cordoba in southern Spain.
![Звездные скопления в NGC 1313](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/30/0001220550/ngc1313_hst_c720.preview.jpg)
26.01.2007
Like grains of sand on a cosmic beach, individual stars of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1313 are resolved in this sharp composite from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The inner region of the galaxy is pictured, spanning about 10,000 light-years.
![Колыбель в Орионе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/25/0001220493/orioncradle_hallas_r780.preview.jpg)
25.01.2007
Cradled in glowing hydrogen, stellar nurseries in Orion lie at the edge of a giant molecular cloud some 1,500 light-years away. This breath-taking view spans about 13 degrees across the center of the well-known constellation with the Great Orion Nebula, the closest large star forming region, just right of center.
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