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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Спиральная галактика NGC 2841](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/23/0001891108/NGC2841_1024.preview.jpg)
23.03.2023
A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in planet Earth's night sky toward the northern constellation of Ursa Major. This sharp image centered on the gorgeous island universe also captures spiky foreground Milky Way stars and more distant background galaxies within the same telescopic field of view.
![M31: галактика Андромеды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/22/0001890593/M31_Alharbi_960.preview.jpg)
22.03.2023
How far can you see? The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy, over two million light-years away. Without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy appears as an unremarkable, faint, nebulous cloud in the constellation Andromeda.
![Темные туманности и звездообразование в Тельце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/21/0001890112/TaurusDust_Chander_1080.preview.jpg)
21.03.2023
Can dust be beautiful? Yes, and it can also be useful. The Taurus molecular cloud has several bright stars, but it is the dark dust that really draws attention. The pervasive dust has waves...
![M1: расширяющаяся Крабовидная туманность](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/20/0001889657/m1hartmann_2011crop1067.preview.preview.preview.jpg)
20.03.2023
Are your eyes good enough to see the Crab Nebula expand? The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact...
![Равноденствие и пирамида Пернатого Змея](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/19/0001889382/MayanMilkyWay_Fernandez_1080.preview.jpg)
19.03.2023
To see the feathered serpent descend the Mayan pyramid requires exquisite timing. You must visit El Castillo -- in Mexico's Yucatцn Peninsula -- near an equinox. Then, during the late afternoon if the sky is clear, the pyramid's own shadows create triangles that merge into the famous illusion of a slithering viper.
![Звезда Вольфа-Райе WR 124](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/19/0001889379/WR124_Webb1024.preview.png)
18.03.2023
Driven by powerful stellar winds, expanding shrouds of gas and dust frame hot, luminous star Wolf-Rayet 124 in this sharp infrared view. The eye-catching 6-spike star pattern is characteristic of stellar images made with the 18 hexagonal mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope.
![Туманность Медуза](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/17/0001888153/medusaNeb1024.preview.jpg)
17.03.2023
Braided and serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula's popular name, The Medusa Nebula. Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebula some 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. Like its mythological namesake, the nebula is associated with a dramatic transformation.
![Миллионы звезд в ω Центавра](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/16/0001887651/NGC5139_Omega_Centauri_1024px.preview.jpg)
16.03.2023
Globular star cluster Omega Centauri, also known as NGC 5139, is 15,000 light-years away. The cluster is packed with about 10 million stars much older than the Sun within a volume about 150 light-years in diameter.
![Сближение Венеры и Юпитера над Германией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/15/0001887195/JupiterVenus_Luy_960.preview.jpg)
15.03.2023
This was a sky to show the kids. Early this month the two brightest planets in the night sky, Jupiter and Venus, appeared to converge. At their closest, the two planets were separated by only about the angular width of the full moon.
![W5: туманность Душа](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/14/0001886710/Soul_Jimenez_1080.preview.jpg)
14.03.2023
Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the Soul Nebula can be found in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia, whom Greek mythology credits as the vain wife of a King who long ago ruled lands surrounding the upper Nile river.
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