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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Солнечная колонна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/02/0001182190/sunpillar_liquorice_big.preview.jpg)
29.12.2002
Have you ever seen a sun pillar? When the air is cold and the Sun is rising or setting, falling ice crystals can reflect sunlight and create an unusual column of light. Ice sometimes forms flat, stop-sign shaped crystals as it falls from high-level clouds.
![NGC 1818: молодое шаровое скопление](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/02/0001182189/ngc1818_hst.preview.jpg)
28.12.2002
Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. Today, there are perhaps 200 left. Many globular clusters were destroyed over the eons by repeated fateful encounters with each other or the Galactic center.
![Полет фантазии на Мире](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/02/0001182188/mirdream_sts76.preview.jpg)
27.12.2002
This dream-like image of Mir was recorded by astronauts as the Space Shuttle Atlantis approached the Russian space station prior to docking during the STS-76 mission. Sporting spindly appendages and solar panels...
![Тайна рентгеновского излучения в RCW 38](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/12/27/0001181436/rcw38_chandra_c1.preview.jpg)
26.12.2002
A mere 6,000 light-years distant and sailing through the constellation Vela, star cluster RCW 38 is full of powerful stars. It's no surprise that these stars, only a million years young with hot outer atmospheres, appear as point-like x-ray sources dotting this x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory.
![Поиски метеоритов в Антарктике](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/12/26/0001181430/meteorsearch_harvey.preview.jpg)
25.12.2002
Where is the best place on Earth to find meteorites? Although meteors fall all over the world, they usually just sink to the bottom of an ocean, are buried by shifting terrain, or are easily confused with terrestrial rocks.
![Восход Ориона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/12/25/0001181411/OrionRising_westlake_d1.preview.jpg)
24.12.2002
Orion always comes up sideways ... and was caught in the act earlier this month by astronomer Jimmy Westlake, stargazing eastward over the Rocky Mountains north of Leadville, Colorado, USA. To make this gorgeous image, Westlake placed his camera on a tripod for two exposures.
![Весенние пылевые бури на северном полюсе Марса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/12/24/0001181395/northmars_mgs.preview.jpg)
23.12.2002
Spring reached the north pole of Mars in May, and brought with it the usual dust storms. As the north polar cap begins to thaw, a temperature difference occurs between the cold frost region and recently thawed surface, resulting in swirling winds between the adjacent regions.
![Звезды и пыль в окне Бааде](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/12/23/0001181385/sagstars_uks020.preview.jpg)
22.12.2002
Billions of stars light up the direction toward the center of our Galaxy. The vast majority of these stars are themselves billions of years old, rivaling their home Milky Way Galaxy in raw age. These stars are much more faint and red than the occasional young blue stars that light up most galaxies.
![Лето на южном полюсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/12/23/0001181382/earthsp_gal.preview.jpg)
21.12.2002
The December solstice brings the beginning of Winter to Earth's Northern Hemisphere and Summer time to the South! This view of Earth's Southern Hemisphere near the beginning of Summer was created using images from the Galileo spacecraft taken during its December 1990 flyby of our fair planet.
![Праздник солнцестояния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/12/21/0001181377/sun3col_thompsoneit.preview.jpg)
20.12.2002
Aloha and Season's greetings! On December 22nd, at 01:14 Universal Time (December 21, 3:14pm Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time), the Sun reaches its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky marking the final season change for the year 2002. In celebration, consider this delightfully detailed, brightly colored image of the active Sun.
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