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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Кровавая Луна с синей полосой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/12/01/0001789948/BlueRedMoon_Yu_960.preview.jpg)
30.11.2021
What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week's lunar eclipse, however -- taken from Yancheng, China -- has been digitally processed to equalize the Moon's brightness and exaggerate the colors.
![Уран и его спутники в движении](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/11/30/0001789657/uran.preview.png)
29.11.2021
What's that moving across the sky? A planet just a bit too faint to see with the unaided eye: Uranus. The gas giant out past Saturn was tracked earlier this month near opposition -- when it was closest to Earth and at its brightest.
![Удивительная спираль в LL Пегаса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/11/29/0001789342/LLPegasi_HubbleLodge_960.preview.jpg)
28.11.2021
What created the strange spiral structure on the upper left? No one is sure, although it is likely related to a star in a binary star system entering the planetary nebula phase, when its outer atmosphere is ejected.
![Высокий утес на комете Чурюмова-Герасименко](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/11/29/0001789348/cometcliffs_RosettaAtkinson_960.preview.jpg)
27.11.2021
This high cliff occurs not on a planet, not on a moon, but on a comet. It was discovered to be part of the dark nucleus of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (CG) by Rosetta, a robotic spacecraft launched by ESA that rendezvoused with the Sun-orbiting comet in 2014.
![Мессье 101](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/11/27/0001788771/M101_hst1280.preview.jpg)
26.11.2021
Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. About 170,000 light-years across, this galaxy is enormous, almost twice the size of our own Milky Way.
![Большой рефрактор и лунное затмение](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/11/26/0001788274/LH7528_36EclipsePartialWithPlieades_1024x1024.preview.jpg)
25.11.2021
Rain clouds passed and the dome of the Lick Observatory's 36 inch Great Refractor opened on November 19. The historic telescope was pointed toward a partially eclipsed Moon. Illuminated by dim red lighting...
![На краю тени](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/11/25/0001787883/Gout_EclipseCollage-1024.preview.jpg)
24.11.2021
Shaped like a cone tapering into space, the Earth's dark central shadow or umbra has a circular cross-section. It's wider than the Moon at the distance of the Moon's orbit though. But during the lunar eclipse of November 18/19, part of the Moon remained just outside the umbral shadow.
![Плеяды: звездное скопление Семь сестер](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/11/24/0001787586/PleiadesB_Cannane_960.preview.jpg)
23.11.2021
Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as large and clear as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city.
![Солнце в рентгеновских лучах от спутника NuSTAR](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/11/23/0001787231/ActiveSun_NuSTAR_960.preview.jpg)
22.11.2021
Why are the regions above sunspots so hot? Sunspots themselves are a bit cooler than the surrounding solar surface because the magnetic fields that create them reduce convective heating. It is therefore unusual that regions overhead -- even much higher up in the Sun's corona -- can be hundreds of times hotter.
![Лунное затмение над небоскребом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/11/22/0001786797/LunarEclipseBuilding_Beletsky_960.preview.jpg)
21.11.2021
Why is the Moon on top of this building? Planning. It took the astrophotographer careful planning -- including figuring out exactly where to place the camera and exactly when to take the shot -- to create this striking superposition.
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