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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Солнечный минимум против солнечного максимума](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/11/0001914168/solarmax.preview.png)
11.12.2023
The surface of our Sun is constantly changing. Some years it is quiet, showing relatively few sunspots and active regions. Other years it is churning, showing many sunspots and throwing frequent Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and flares.
![Большой Ковш над горой Пирамида](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/10/0001914108/BigDipperMt2_Cullen_960.preview.jpg)
10.12.2023
When did you first learn to identify this group of stars? Although they are familiar to many people around the world, different cultures have associated this asterism with different icons and folklore. Known...
![Пик Плеяд](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/10/0001914106/_MG_4553_rawfile1024.preview.jpg)
9.12.2023
Near dawn on November 19 the Pleiades stood in still dark skies over the French Pyrenees. But just before sunrise a serendipitous moment was captured in this single 3 second exposure; a bright meteor streak appeared to pierce the heart of the galactic star cluster.
![Вега и комета 12P Понса-Брукса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/08/0001913959/_12P_Pons_Brooks_2023_12_04_184135PST_DEBartlett1024.preview.jpg)
8.12.2023
On December 4, periodic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks shared this telescopic field of view with Vega, alpha star of the northern constellation Lyra. Fifth brightest star in planet Earth's night, Vega is some 25 light-years distant while the much fainter comet was about 21 light-minutes away.
!["Орион" и океан Бурь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/07/0001913917/art001e002132_apod1024.preview.jpg)
7.12.2023
On December 5, 2022, a camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured this view as Orion approached its return powered flyby of the Moon. Beyond one of Orion's extended solar arrays lies dark, smooth, terrain along the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum.
![Звезды против пыли в туманности Киля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/06/0001913816/TorchedDust_HubbleMecone_960.preview.jpg)
6.12.2023
It's stars versus dust in the Carina Nebula and the stars are winning. More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed.
![Частица с высокой энергией сталкивается с Землей](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/05/0001913745/Exaray_OsakaU_1080.preview.jpg)
5.12.2023
It was one of the most energetic particles ever known to strike the Earth -- but where did it come from? Dubbed Amaterasu after the Shinto sun goddess, this particle, as do all cosmic rays...
![Самолет пролетает перед полумесяцем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/04/0001913640/BowArrow_Patel_960.preview.jpg)
4.12.2023
No, the Moon is not a bow, and no, it did not shoot out a plane like an arrow. What is pictured is a chance superposition. The plane's contrail would normally appear white...
![Заход Луны за вулканом Тейде](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/03/0001913575/moon.preview.preview.png)
3.12.2023
These people are not in danger. What is coming down from the left is just the Moon, far in the distance. Luna appears so large here because she is being photographed through a telescopic lens.
![Следы звезд над древней Пекинской обсерваторией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/02/0001913529/StartrailsBeijingAncientObservatory-3_1024.preview.jpg)
2.12.2023
You can take a subway ride to visit this observatory in Beijing, China but you won't find any telescopes there. Starting in the 1400s astronomers erected devices at the Beijing Ancient Observatory site to enable them to accurately measure and track the positions of naked-eye stars and planets.
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