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![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.
![Марс, Церера, Веста](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/04/10/0001307550/MarsCeresVesta2014La950.preview.jpg)
10.04.2014
That bright, ruddy star you've recently noticed rising just after sunset isn't a star at all. That's Mars, the Red Planet. Mars is now near its 2014 opposition (April 8) and closest approach (April 14), looping through the constellation Virgo opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky.
![Круиз кометы Хартли 2](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/10/07/0001254104/103P_101127ligustri900c.preview.jpg)
7.10.2011
Early last November, small but active Comet Hartley 2 (103/P Hartley) became the fifth comet imaged close-up by a spacecraft from planet Earth. Still cruising through the solar system with a 6 year orbital period, Hartley 2 is is making astronomical headlines again, though.
![Макемаке на краю Солнечной системы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/07/22/0001228831/makemake_nasa.preview.jpg)
16.07.2008
Recently discovered Makemake is one of the largest objects known in the outer Solar System. Pronounced MAH-kay MAH-kay, this Kuiper belt object is only slightly smaller than Pluto, orbits the Sun only slightly further out than Pluto, and appears only slightly dimmer than Pluto.
![Гора Райт в цвете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/01/15/0001353712/01142016_WrightMonsVolcano_Context1024c.preview.jpg)
15.01.2016
Informally named Wright Mons, a broad mountain about 150 kilometers across and 4 kilometers high with a wide, deep summit depression is featured in this inset image captured during the New Horizons flyby of Pluto in July 2015.
![Яркие пятна в кратере Оккатор на Церере разрешены](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/09/16/0001343467/CeresOccator_Dawn_1080.preview.jpg)
16.09.2015
What created these bright spots on Ceres? The spots were first noted as the robotic Dawn spacecraft approached Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, in February, with the expectation that the mystery would soon be solved in higher resolution images. However, even after Dawn arrived at Ceres in March, the riddle remained.
![Необычная гора на астероиде Церера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/06/30/0001338118/CeresMountain_Dawn_960.preview.jpg)
30.06.2015
What created this large mountain on asteroid Ceres? No one is yet sure. As if in anticipation of today being Asteroid Day on Earth, the robotic spacecraft Dawn in orbit around Ceres took the best yet image of an unusually tall mountain on the Asteroid Belt's largest asteroid.
![Пролёт мимо Плутона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/10/06/0001345123/pluto_flyby.preview.png)
6.10.2015
What would it look like to fly past Pluto? The robotic New Horizons spacecraft did just this in late July and continues to return stunning pictures of the dwarf planet. Some well-chosen flyby images have now been digitally sequenced to create the featured video.
![Зоны Златовласки и звезды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/01/31/0001606260/STSCI-H-p2006a-h-1024x614.preview.jpg)
31.01.2020
The Goldilocks zone is the habitable zone around a star where it's not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to exist on the surface of orbiting planets. This intriguing infographic...
![Звездное скопление IC 348 от телескопа "Джеймс Вебб"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/01/15/0001917543/IC348_webb_960.preview.jpg)
15.01.2024
Sometimes, it's the stars that are the hardest to see that are the most interesting. IC 348 is a young star cluster that illuminates surrounding filamentary dust. The stringy and winding dust appears pink in this recently released infrared image from the Webb Space Telescope.
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