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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Цветные звёздные облака в Лебеде](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/22/0001336016/barnard344_vanderHoeven_960.preview.jpg)
22.04.2015
Stars can form in colorful surroundings. Featured here is a star forming region rich in glowing gas and dark dust toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus), near the bright star Sadr. This region, which spans about 50 light years, is part of the Gamma Cygni nebula which lies about 1,800 light years distant.
![Путешествие по Весте: цифровая модель астероида Веста](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/22/0001336011/vesta.preview.jpg)
21.04.2015
You can explore asteroid Vesta. Recently, NASA's robotic spaceship Dawn visited Vesta, the second largest object in our Solar System's main asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter. During a year-long stopover, Dawn's cameras photographed Vesta's entire surface, documenting all of the minor planet's major mountains and craters.
![Полное солнечное затмение над Свальбардом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/20/0001335847/EclipseSvalbard_Santikunaporn_960.preview.jpg)
20.04.2015
Going, going, gone. That was the feeling in Svalbard, Norway last month during a total eclipse of the Sun by the Moon. In the featured image, the eclipse was captured every three minutes and then digitally merged with a foreground frame taken from the same location.
![Кольцеобразная галактика AM 0644-741: вид в телескоп им.Хаббла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/19/0001335738/Ring0644_hubble_960.preview.jpg)
19.04.2015
How could a galaxy become shaped like a ring? The rim of the blue galaxy pictured on the right is an immense ring-like structure 150,000 light years in diameter composed of newly formed, extremely bright, massive stars.
![Большой кратер Хокусаи](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/19/0001335735/HokusaiOblique_2015h800c.preview.jpg)
18.04.2015
One of the largest young craters on Mercury, 114 kilometer (71 mile) diameter Hokusai crater's bright rays are known to extend across much of the planet. But this mosaic of oblique views focuses...
![M46 плюс два](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/17/0001335633/Messier46DenisPRIOU1024.preview.jpg)
17.04.2015
Galactic or open star clusters are young. These swarms of stars are born together near the plane of the Milky Way, but their numbers steadily dwindle as cluster members are ejected by galactic tides and gravitational interactions. In fact, this bright open cluster, known as M46, is around 300 million years young.
![Однорукавная спиральная галактика NGC 4725](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/16/0001335534/rNGC-4725-HaL(AOX)RGBpugh1024.preview.jpg)
16.04.2015
While most spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have two or more spiral arms, NGC 4725 has only one. In this sharp color composite image, the solo spira mirabilis seems to wind from a prominent ring of bluish, newborn star clusters and red tinted star forming regions.
![Пылевые столбы Таинственная гора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/15/0001335493/MysticMountain_HubbleForteza_960.preview.jpg)
15.04.2015
It's stars versus dust in the Carina Nebula and the stars are winning. More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed.
![Полёт сквозь тень Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/14/0001335359/moon_shadow.preview.png)
14.04.2015
What would it look like to fly through a total eclipse of the Sun? On a typical place on Earth in the path of the dark shadow of the Moon during a total eclipse, an observer would see the Moon cross the face of the Sun, completely blocking it for a few minutes.
![Млечный Путь над извергающимся вулканом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/13/0001335299/VolcanoWay_montufar_960.preview.jpg)
13.04.2015
The view was worth the trip. Battling high winds, cold temperatures, and low oxygen, the trek to near the top of the volcano Santa Maria in Guatemala -- while carrying sensitive camera equipment -- was lonely and difficult. Once set up, though, the camera captured this breathtaking vista during the early morning hours of February 28.
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