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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Слухи о странной Вселенной](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/06/0001199831/sn94d_hiz.preview.jpg)
2.12.2001
Three years ago results were first presented indicating that most of the energy in our universe is not in stars or galaxies but is tied to space itself. In the language of cosmologists, a large cosmological constant is directly implied by new distant supernovae observations.
![Большое темное пятно Нептуна: пропавшее, но не забытое](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/08/0001199864/nepspot_voyager2.preview.jpg)
1.12.2001
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by distant Neptune in August of 1989, astronomers were shocked. Since Neptune receives only 3 percent the sunlight Jupiter does, they expected to find a dormant, dark, frigid planet. Instead, the Voyager images revealed evidence of a dynamic and turbulent world.
![Звуки метеорного дождя](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/08/0001199865/leonidfire_raymundo.preview.gif)
30.11.2001
This dramatic four-frame animation shows a fireball meteor and its developing persistent "smoke" train, recorded two weeks ago in skies near Salvador, Brazil. Indeed similar sights are astonishingly familiar world-wide to witnesses of this November's fireball-rich Leonid meteor storm.
![Нисходящий корональный поток](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199893/coronalinflow_soho.preview.jpg)
29.11.2001
The active Sun has thrown a lot our way lately, including storms of particles streaming outward in the solar wind and clouds of plasma which triggered awesome auroral displays. Still, a growing body...
![Обнаружена атмосфера у планеты вне Солнечной системы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/12/01/0001173334/hd209458_hst.preview.jpg)
28.11.2001
By directly detecting the atmosphere of a planet outside our Solar System, humanity has taken another small step toward finding extraterrestrial life. The unexpected detection by David Charbonneau (Caltech) and associates came from Hubble Space Telescope observations of Sun-like star HD 209458.
![Древние слоистые отложения на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/08/0001199867/marslayers_mgs.preview.jpg)
27.11.2001
Is this a picture of Mars or Earth? Oddly enough, it is a picture of Mars. What may appear to some as a terrestrial coastline is in fact a formation of ancient layered rocks and wind-blown sand on Mars. The above-pictured region spans about three kilometers in Schiaparelli Crater.
![Леониды с дороги](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/08/0001199868/leonidcar_bailey_big.preview.jpg)
26.11.2001
Sometimes you just have to stop and watch the meteors. In the early morning hours of November 18, a band of eleven people searched for a flat and cloudless site to see the 2001 Leonids Meteor Shower.
![M16: Звезды вылупляются из орлиных яиц](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/11/26/0001173125/pillars4_hst.preview.jpg)
25.11.2001
Newborn stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula. This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, shows evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of molecular hydrogen gas and dust. The giant pillars are light years in length and are so dense that interior gas contracts gravitationally to form stars.
![Меркурий Маринера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/08/0001199869/mercury_mariner10.preview.jpg)
24.11.2001
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, remains the most mysterious of the Solar System's inner planets. Hiding in the Sun's glare it is a difficult target for Earth bound observers.
![Подсчет падающей пыли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/08/0001199870/leonids2001_rscott.preview.jpg)
23.11.2001
In the clear, dark and moonless predawn hours of November 18, Greenbelt, Maryland's local baseball field was packed. The crowd stared skyward and occasionally conversed in hushed and reverent tones. "How many did you count?" a man asked.
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