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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Четки Бейли около полной фазы солнечного затмения](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/11/11/0001272508/bailysbeads_durman_960.preview.jpg)
11.11.2012
Just before the Sun blacks out, something strange occurs. As the Moon moves to completely cover the Sun in a total solar eclipse -- like the one set to occur over parts of Australia on Tuesday -- beads of bright sunlight stream around the edge of the Moon.
![Галактика с полярным кольцом NGC 660](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/11/11/0001272444/ngc660_gemini_legacy956.preview.jpg)
10.11.2012
NGC 660 is featured in this cosmic snapshot, a sharp composite of broad and narrow band filter image data from the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea. Over 20 million light-years away and swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces, NGC 660's peculiar appearance marks it as a polar ring galaxy.
![Скопление Мелотт 15 в туманности Сердце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/11/09/0001272385/Mel15cancellimortfield900.preview.jpg)
9.11.2012
Cosmic clouds seem to form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 1805. Of course, the clouds are sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula's newborn star cluster, Melotte 15.
![Арп 188 и хвост Головастика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/11/09/0001272405/TadpoleGalaxyPS1V9snyder900.preview.jpg)
8.11.2012
In this stunning vista, based on image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. The cosmic tadpole is a mere 420 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation Draco.
![Суперураган Сэнди: от формирования до выхода на берег](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/11/08/0001272323/hurricane.preview.jpg)
7.11.2012
It was the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. The cost of its devastation is still unknown. Pictured above is a movie of Superstorm Sandy taken by the Earth-orbiting GOES-13 satellite over...
![Мефона: спутник Сатурна, похожий на яйцо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/11/07/0001272151/methone_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
6.11.2012
Why is this moon shaped like a smooth egg? The robotic Cassini spacecraft completed the first flyby ever of Saturn's small moon Methone in May and discovered that the moon has no obvious craters.
![Слегка цветной спутник Сатурна Диона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/11/06/0001272135/dione4_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
5.11.2012
Why does one half of Dione have more craters than the other? Start with the fact that Saturn's moon Dione has one side that always faces Saturn, and one side that always faces away. This is similar to Earth's Moon.
![Линзовидные облака над Вашингтоном](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/11/05/0001272066/rainierclouds_thompson_960.preview.jpg)
4.11.2012
Are those UFOs near that mountain? No -- they are multilayered lenticular clouds. Moist air forced to flow upward around mountain tops can create lenticular clouds. Water droplets condense from moist air cooled below the dew point, and clouds are opaque groups of water droplets.
![Охотничья Луна над Альпами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/11/04/0001271977/HunterMoonAlpsDeRosa900.preview.jpg)
3.11.2012
A Full Moonset can be a dramatic celestial sight, and Full Moons can have many names. Late October's Full Moon, the second Full Moon after the northern hemisphere autumnal equinox, has been traditionally called the Hunter's Moon.
![Черная дыра в Млечном Пути](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/11/03/0001271897/PIA16214nustar900.preview.jpg)
2.11.2012
At the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, a mere 27,000 light-years away, lies a black hole with 4 million times the mass of the Sun. Fondly known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star)...
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