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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Гелиосфера и гелиопауза](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/24/0001177525/heliosphere_pc.preview.jpg)
24.06.2002
Where does the Sun's influence end? Nobody is sure. Out past the orbits of Neptune and Pluto extends a region named the heliosphere where the Sun's magnetic field and particles from the Solar Wind continue to dominate.
![Астероиды вокруг нас](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/25/0001177535/asteroids_hst.preview.jpg)
23.06.2002
Rocks from space hit Earth every day. The larger the rock, though, the less often Earth is struck. Many kilograms of space dust pitter to Earth daily. Larger bits appear initially as a bright meteor. Baseball-sized rocks and ice-balls streak through our atmosphere daily, most evaporating quickly to nothing.
![Извержение вулкана Прометей на Ио](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/22/0001177492/prometheus_gal.preview.jpg)
22.06.2002
Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io in this color composite Galileo image. On the left, over Io's limb, a new bluish plume rises about 86 miles above the surface of a volcanic caldera known as Pillan Patera.
![Заход солнца в Зимбабве](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/21/0001177474/zimsun_alexander.preview.jpg)
21.06.2002
Today's scheduled geocentric astronomical event is the Solstice, with the Sun reaching its northernmost declination at 13 hours 24 minutes Universal Time. For denizens of planet Earth this Solstice marks the begining of Summer in the northern hemisphere and Winter in the south.
![Яркая галактика M81](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/20/0001177457/m81_gendler_c1.preview.jpg)
20.06.2002
Big and beautiful spiral galaxy M81, in the northern constellation Ursa Major, is one of the brightest galaxies visible in the skies of planet Earth. This superbly detailed view reveals its bright nucleus, grand spiral arms and sweeping cosmic dust lanes with a scale comparable to the Milky Way.
![Луна и Венера над Женевой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/19/0001177431/MoonVenusGeneva_giuliani.preview.jpg)
19.06.2002
The Moon, fresh from a biting encounter with the Sun last week, appeared next to threaten Venus. The waxing Moon appeared to glide right past, however, just a few degrees away. Venus, of course, is much further away from the Earth than the Moon, so the passing was really just an angular illusion.
![IC 4406: "квадратная" туманность](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/18/0001177404/ic4406_hst.preview.jpg)
18.06.2002
How can a round star make a square nebula? This conundrum comes to light when studying planetary nebulae like IC 4406. Evidence indicates that IC 4406 is likely a hollow cylinder, with its square appearance the result of our vantage point in viewing the cylinder from the side.
![NGC 4697: рентгеновское излучение из эллиптической галактики](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/17/0001177380/ngc4697_cxc_c1.preview.jpg)
17.06.2002
The many bright, point-like sources in this Chandra Observatory x-ray image lie within NGC 4697, an elliptical galaxy some 40 million light-years away towards Virgo. Like other normal elliptical galaxies, NGC 4697 is a spherical ensemble of mainly older, fainter, low mass stars, with little star forming gas and dust compared to spiral galaxies.
![У Юпитера выявлены кольца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/17/0001177378/jupring1_gal.preview.jpg)
16.06.2002
Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but their origin was a mystery. Data from the Galileo spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter later confirmed that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons.
![MyCn18: туманность в форме песочных часов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/15/0001177356/MyCn18_hst.preview.jpg)
15.06.2002
The sands of time are running out for the central star of this hourglass-shaped planetary nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a Sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected - its core becoming a cooling, fading white dwarf.
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