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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Космические лучи и пыль от сверхновой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/09/0001192879/crejecta_ramaty_big.preview.jpg)
18.06.1998
Cosmic Rays are celestial high energy particles traveling at nearly the speed of light, which constantly bombard the Earth. Discovered during high altitude balloon flights in 1912 their source has been a long standing mystery.
![Телескоп для Цифрового обзора неба Слоан](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/09/0001192878/sloan_fermilab_big.preview.jpg)
17.06.1998
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will soon begin. Pictured above is the 2.5-meter telescope poised to create the most ambitious sky map in the history of astronomy. SDSS will catalog one quarter of the sky down past 23rd magnitude ( R), obtaining redshifts for galaxies and quasars brighter than magnitude 19.
![Активная область на Солнце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/09/0001192877/activesun_trace_big.preview.jpg)
16.06.1998
The Sun is a busy place. This false-color image depicts an active region near an edge of the Sun. Hot plasma is seen exploding off the Sun's photosphere and traveling along loops defined by the Sun's magnetic field.
![NGC 4314: кольцо звездообразования в ядре](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/09/0001192876/ngc4314_hst_big.preview.jpg)
15.06.1998
Is this old galaxy up to new tricks? The barred spiral galaxy NGC 4314 is billions of years old, but its appearance has changed markedly over just the past few millions of years. During that time, a nuclear ring of bright young stars has been evolving.
![Гигантское скопление искривляет и разбивает изображение галактики](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/09/0001192875/cl0024_hst_big.preview.gif)
14.06.1998
What are those strange blue objects? Many are images of a single, unusual, beaded, blue, ring-like galaxy which just happens to line-up behind a giant cluster of galaxies. Cluster galaxies here appear yellow and -- together with the cluster's dark matter -- act as a gravitational lens.
![Хенице 70: очень большой пузырь в Большом Магеллановом Облаке](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/09/0001192874/henize70_aat.preview.jpg)
13.06.1998
Stars with tens of times the mass of the Sun profoundly affect their galactic environment. Churning and mixing the interstellar gas and dust clouds they leave their mark in the compositions and locations of future generations of stars and star systems.
![Туманность Ориона: обзор 2MASS](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/09/0001192873/ori2mass_big.preview.jpg)
12.06.1998
Few astronomical sights excite the imagination like the nearby stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away.
![Пасущиеся около Солнца кометы-близнецы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/09/0001192872/twins_soho.preview.gif)
11.06.1998
This four frame animation (courtesy D. Biesecker) shows two comets arcing toward a fatal fiery encounter with the Sun. These discovery images were recorded by the LASCO instrument on board the space-based SOHO solar observatory on June 1-2.
![NGC 6070: первый свет для Слоан](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/09/0001192871/ngc6070_sloandss_big.preview.jpg)
10.06.1998
The graceful spiral galaxy NGC 6070, 100 million light-years distant in the constellation Serpens, is helping astronomers celebrate "First Light" (the first test sky images) for an exciting new telescope built to perform the ambitious Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
![Ледяные горные пики на Европе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/09/0001192870/europacusps_gal_big.preview.jpg)
9.06.1998
Europa's icy crust has many unusual features. Pictured above is part of Europa's southern hemisphere photographed by the Galileo spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter. Europa is one of the largest moons of Jupiter, and is thought to have oceans of water underneath its ice-covered surface.
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