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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Северная комета](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/05/0001284452/Me-and-the-milkyway_heden0900.preview.jpg)
5.04.2013
It looks like a double comet, but Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) is just offering skygazers a Messier moment. Outward bound and fading in this starry scene, the well-photographed comet is remarkably similar in brightness to M31, the Andromeda Galaxy.
![M64: галактика Подбитый глаз](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/05/0001284398/M64HaLRGB_Pugh920.preview.jpg)
4.04.2013
This beautiful, bright, spiral galaxy is Messier 64, often called the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy for its heavy-lidded appearance in telescopic views. M64 is about 17 million light-years distant in the otherwise well-groomed northern constellation Coma Berenices.
![Комета PANSTARRS и Туманность Андромеды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/03/0001284242/panstarrsm31_pavel_960.preview.jpg)
3.04.2013
Currently, comet PANSTARRS is passing nearly in front of the galaxy Andromeda. Coincidentally, both comet and galaxy appear now to be just about the same angular size. In physical size, even though Comet PANSTARRS...
![IC 4592: отражательная туманность Голубая конская голова](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/02/0001284145/bluehorsehead_rosen_960.preview.jpg)
2.04.2013
Do you see the horse's head? What you are seeing is not the famous Horsehead nebula toward Orion but rather a fainter nebula that only takes on a familiar form with deeper imaging. The main part of the above imaged molecular cloud complex is a reflection nebula cataloged as IC 4592.
![Луна или сковородка?](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/01/0001283993/paneuropa_960.preview.jpg)
1.04.2013
Which is which? Of the two images shown above, one is a moon in our Solar System, while the other is the bottom of frying pan. We are not making this up -- can you tell a pan from a planetoid? Think you got it? To find the answer click here. OK, but there are more!
![Ночной полет над Землей](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/01/0001283988/earth.preview.jpg)
31.03.2013
Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city lights, lightning flashes in thunderstorms, and dark blue seas.
![Широкий хвост кометы PanSTARRS](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/30/0001283878/com38h+NOmodel_900.preview.jpg)
30.03.2013
For northern hemisphere skygazers, fading Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) still hangs above the western horzion, after sunset but before moonrise in the coming days. Its perspective from planet Earth continues to reveal the comet's broad dust tail.
![Кольца Сатурна и Рея](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/29/0001283747/PIA12771_c900.preview.jpg)
29.03.2013
Orbiting in the plane of Saturn's rings, Saturnian moons have a perpetual ringside view of the gas giant planet. Of course, while passing near the ring plane the Cassini spacecraft also shares their stunning perspective. The thin rings themselves slice across the middle of this Cassini snapshot from April 2011.
![Распутывающаяся галактика NGC 3169](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/28/0001283661/n3169_0block900.preview.jpg)
28.03.2013
Bright spiral galaxy NGC 3169 appears to be unraveling in this cosmic scene, played out some 70 million light-years away just below bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans. Its beautiful spiral arms...
![Горизонтальная радуга над Парижем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/03/27/0001283590/rainbowparis_kulik_960.preview.jpg)
27.03.2013
Why is this horizon so colorful? Because, opposite the Sun, it is raining. What is pictured above is actually just a common rainbow. It's uncommon appearance is caused by the Sun being unusually high in the sky during the rainbow's creation.
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