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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Рентгеновский череп скопления галактик в Персее](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162430/perseushalloween_cxc_big.preview.jpg)
30.10.2000
This haunting image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory reveals the Perseus Cluster of Galaxies in x-rays, photons with a thousand or more times the energy of visible light. Three hundred twenty million light-years distant, the Perseus Cluster contains thousands of galaxies, but none of them are seen here.
![Шаг на пути к наблюдению гравитационных волн](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163945/hanford_ligo.preview.jpg)
29.10.2000
Accelerate a charge and you'll get electromagnetic radiation: light. But accelerate any mass and you'll get gravitational radiation. Light is seen all the time, but, so far, a confirmed direct detection of gravitational radiation has yet to be made.
![Горячие пятна микроволн: старейшие из известных структур во Вселенной](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162396/4yr_cobe_big.preview.gif)
29.10.2000
These spots are the oldest, most distant structures known. They are seen on the above two images of the microwave sky, north and south of our galaxy's equator, based on four-year's worth of data from NASA's COsmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite (1989-1993). The spots represent temperature variations in the early universe.
![Планета Земля: Восход Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/01/06/0001164868/moonrise_sts35_big.preview.jpg)
28.10.2000
During the Astro-1 astronomy mission of December, 1990, Space Shuttle astronauts photographed this stunning view of the full moon rising above the Earth's limb. In the foreground, towering clouds of condensing water vapor mark the extent of the troposphere, the lowest layer of the planet's life-sustaining atmosphere.
![Поближе к Эросу](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163943/erosclose_near_big.preview.jpg)
27.10.2000
Scroll right and fly close over asteroid Eros! This long mosaic was constructed of images returned yesterday by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft as it orbited to within 6.4 kilometers of a spot in the southern hemisphere of the rotating asteroid's surface.
![Карта Эроса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163942/erosmap_near_big.preview.jpg)
26.10.2000
This map of Eros was constructed from a mosaic of images recorded by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft, currently orbiting the 40 x 14 x 14 kilometer asteroid. A simple cylindrical projection of an irregularly shaped world, the map's individual images don't always match up at the edges.
![Туманность и нейтронная звезда](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163941/neutronnebula_eso_big.preview.jpg)
25.10.2000
The lonely RX J1856.5-3754 was formed from the collapsed core of an exploding star. At a distance of 180 light-years it is the closest known neutron star. More massive than...
![Вращение Ио](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/28/0001164476/iorotmovie_gal.preview.gif)
24.10.2000
The surface of Io is continually changing. Jupiter's moon is the home to many powerful volcanoes so active they are effectively turning the moon inside out. The above time-lapse sequence is a composite of images taken during two space missions that approached the violent moon: Voyager and Galileo.
![NGC 205 -- карликовая эллиптическая галактика Местной Группы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163939/ngc205_cfht_big.preview.jpg)
23.10.2000
Our Milky Way Galaxy is not alone. It is part of a gathering of about 25 galaxies known as the Local Group. Members include the Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M32, M33, the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud, Dwingeloo 1, several small irregular galaxies, and many dwarf elliptical and dwarf spheroidal galaxies.
![Дикая утка - рассеянное скопление M11](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163938/m11_aat090.preview.jpg)
22.10.2000
Many stars like our Sun were formed in open clusters. The above open cluster, M11, contains thousands of stars and is just over three thousand light years distant. The stars in this cluster all formed together about 150 million years ago. The bright young stars in M11 appear blue.
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