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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Обратная сторона Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/30/0001373661/farside_lro800.preview.jpg)
30.12.2016
Tidally locked in synchronous rotation, the Moon always presents its familiar nearside to denizens of planet Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon's farside can become familiar, though. In fact this sharp picture, a mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's wide angle camera, is centered on the lunar farside.
![Игра в скорлупки в БМО](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/30/0001373677/lmcapodgleason960.preview.jpg)
29.12.2016
An alluring sight in southern skies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is seen here through narrowband filters. The filters are designed to transmit only light emitted by ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms. Ionized...
!["Кьюриосити" осматривает нижнюю часть горы Шарп](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/01/01/0001373739/LowerMtSharp_Curiosity_1080_annotated.preview.jpg)
28.12.2016
If you could stand on Mars -- what might you see? If you were the Curiosity rover, then just last month you would have contemplated the featured image -- a breathtaking panorama of the lower portion of Mount Sharp. The colors have been adjusted to mimic lighting familiar to Earthlings.
![M31: галактика Андромеды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/30/0001373678/m31_antonis_960.preview.jpg)
27.12.2016
What is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy? Andromeda. In fact, our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The diffuse light from Andromeda is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it.
![NGC 6357: звездная страна чудес](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/01/04/0001373929/ngc6357_nasa_960.preview.jpg)
26.12.2016
For reasons unknown, NGC 6357 is forming some of the most massive stars ever discovered. This complex wonderland of star formation consists of numerous filaments of dust and gas surrounding huge cavities of massive star clusters. The intricate patterns are caused by complex interactions between interstellar winds, radiation pressures, magnetic fields, and gravity.
![Великолепная туманность Конская Голова](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/31/0001373736/ic434_mtm_960.preview.jpg)
25.12.2016
Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex.
![Лисий мех, Единорог и Рождественская елка](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/31/0001373733/ChristmasTreeCluster2016WalkerMiller1024rot.preview.jpg)
24.12.2016
Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas fill this colorful skyscape in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, the complex jumble of cosmic gas and dust...
![Однажды в канун солнцестояния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/01/07/0001374114/2016_12_20_Towards_Venus_LP_1024px.preview.jpg)
23.12.2016
Once upon a solstice eve a little prince gazed across a frozen little planet at the edge of a large galaxy. The little planet was planet Earth of course, seen in this horizon to horizon, nadir to zenith projection, a digitally stitched mosaic from the shores of the Sec reservoir in the Czech Republic.
![Ореол с самолетом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/06/13/0001415577/PlaneGlory_Larson_960.preview.jpg)
22.12.2016
Looking out the window of an airplane, you might be lucky enough to see "the glory" in the direction directly opposite the Sun. Before airplanes, the phenomenon, known to some as the heiligenschein or the Specter of the Brocken, was sometimes seen from mountaintops.
![Следы Солнца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/21/0001373057/sun.preview.jpg)
21.12.2016
This year the December Solstice is today, December 21, at 10:44 UT, the first day of winter in the north and summer in the south. To celebrate, watch this amazing timelapse video tracing the Sun's apparent movement over an entire year from Hungary.
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