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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Кольцо Эйнштейна в виде подковы через телескоп имени Хаббла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/22/0001255211/lensshoe_hubble_900.preview.jpg)
21.12.2011
What's large and blue and can wrap itself around an entire galaxy? A gravitational lens mirage. Pictured above, the gravity of a luminous red galaxy (LRG) has gravitationally distorted the light from a much more distant blue galaxy.
![NGC 253: галактика Скульптор](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/20/0001255187/ngc253_lau_900.preview.jpg)
20.12.2011
NGC 253 is not only one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, it is also one of the dustiest. Discovered in 1783 by Caroline Herschel in the constellation of Sculptor, NGC 253 lies only about ten million light-years distant.
![Метеор из потока Геминид над Ираном](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/19/0001255178/geminid_golestaneh_900.preview.jpg)
19.12.2011
Some beautiful things begin as grains of sand. Locked in an oyster, a granule grows into an iridescent pearl, lustrous and lovely to behold. While hurtling through the atmosphere at 35 kilometers per second, a generous cosmic sand grain becomes an awe-inspiring meteor, its transient beauty displayed for any who care to watch.
![Намёк на бозон Хиггса от Большого Адронного Коллайдера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/01/27/0001255738/atlas_cern_900.preview.jpg)
18.12.2011
Why do objects have mass? To help find out, Europe's CERN has built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator yet created by humans. Since 2008, the LHC smashed protons into each other with unprecedented impact speeds.
![Комета Лавджоя: пережившая встречу с Солнцем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/18/0001255163/Lovejoy_loses_tail900.preview.jpg)
17.12.2011
Like most other sungrazing comets, Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) was not expected to survive its close encounter with the Sun. But it did. This image from a coronograph onboard the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft identifies the still inbound remnants of the tail, with the brilliant head or coma emerging from the solar glare on December 16.
![Восход красной Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/16/0001255139/TLE2011Dec10_901oshin_600h.preview.jpg)
16.12.2011
This surreal, wintry scene is a composite picture recorded on December 10 as the Moon rose behind the Zagros Mountains of Iran. A total lunar eclipse was already in progress. The image combines nearly 500 successive frames taken over 1.5 hours beginning in twilight as the eclipsed Moon steadily climbed above the rugged landscape.
![Умбра Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/16/0001255130/TLE2011Dec10WangLetian900c.preview.jpg)
15.12.2011
The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. For example, last Saturday the Full Moon slid across the southern half of Earth's umbral shadow, entertaining moonwatchers around much of the planet.
![Лунное затмение над индийской Пагодой Мира](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/14/0001255114/lunareclipse_devgun_900.preview.jpg)
14.12.2011
Our Moon turned red last week. The reason was that during December 10, a total lunar eclipse occurred. The above digitally superimposed image mosaic captured the Moon many times during the eclipse, from before the Moon entered Earth's shadow until after the Moon exited.
![Вблизи туманности Конус](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/14/0001255115/cone_willasch_900.preview.jpg)
13.12.2011
Strange shapes and textures can be found in neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. The unusual shapes originate from fine interstellar dust reacting in complex ways with the energetic light and hot gas being expelled by the young stars.
![Необычная жила из осажденных горных пород на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/13/0001255103/marsvein_opportunity_900.preview.jpg)
12.12.2011
What could create this unusual vein of rock on Mars? A leading hypothesis is that this thin rock layer dubbed "Homestake" was deposited by a running liquid -- like most mineral veins are here on Earth. And the running liquid of choice is water.
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