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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Лунный робот Луноход-1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/23/0001191168/lunokhod_1_big.preview.gif)
20.04.1997
On November 17, 1970 the Soviet Luna 17 spacecraft landed the first roving remote-controlled robot on the Moon. Known as Lunokhod 1, it weighed just under 2,000 pounds and was designed to operate for 90 days guided by a 5-person team at the Deep Space Center near Moscow, USSR, Planet Earth.
![Спиральная галактика M83](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/10/18/0001194203/m83_aat.preview.gif)
19.04.1997
The long winding arms of this nearby spiral galaxy define it as the "Southern Pinwheel." But M83 is quite a typical spiral - much like our own Milky Way Galaxy. Spiral galaxies contains many billions of stars, the youngest of which inhabit the spiral arms and glow strongly in blue light.
![Солнечный шторм вызывает рентгеновские полярные сияния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/10/18/0001194205/aurora_pixie_big.preview.gif)
18.04.1997
On April 7, the SOHO spacecraft spotted a Solar Storm ejecting a cloud of energetic particles toward planet Earth. The plasma cloud's center missed Earth, but high energy particles swept up by Earth's magnetosphere still created a geomagnetic storm!
![Пвил: ледяной кратер на Европе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/23/0001191164/pwyll_gal_big.preview.jpg)
17.04.1997
The impact crater Pwyll (a name from Celtic Mythology) is thought to represent one of the youngest features on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. A combination of color and high resolution black...
![Звездное скопление за хвостом кометы Хейла-Боппа](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/23/0001191163/halebopp8_aac_big.preview.jpg)
16.04.1997
Comet Hale-Bopp continues to look impressive. The photograph above captured the comet on April 7th passing nearly in front of M34, a star cluster in the constellation of Perseus. Many of the stars in this open cluster can be seen through Comet Hale-Bopp's white dust tail.
![Комета Хейла-Боппа и интерферометр на плато де Бур](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/23/0001191162/halebopp1_iram.preview.jpg)
15.04.1997
Comet Hale-Bopp is being observed by many different telescopes. Here the comet is pictured behind the array of radio telescopes which compose the Plateau de Bure Interferometer. These telescopes are being used to detect the presence of different molecules in the coma and tail of Comet Hale-Bopp.
![Капюшоны кометы Хейла-Боппа](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/10/18/0001194210/halebopp2_usno_big.preview.jpg)
14.04.1997
Comet Hale-Bopp is spinning. The nucleus of the comet is a dirty snowball about 25 miles in diameter that spins about once every 12 hours. As Comet Hale-Bopp spins, parts of the comet's surface shoot away in jets.
![Джеты объекта SS433](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/10/18/0001194212/ss433_art_big.preview.gif)
13.04.1997
SS433 is one of the most exotic star systems known. Its unremarkable name stems from its inclusion in a catalog of stars which emit radiation characteristic of atomic hydrogen. Its very remarkable behavior stems from a compact object, a black hole or neutron star, which has produced an accretion disk with jets.
![Аресибо: крупнейший телескоп](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/10/18/0001194216/arecibo_naic_big.preview.gif)
12.04.1997
The Arecibo radio telescope is currently the largest single-dish telescope in the world. First opening in 1963, this 305 meter (1000 foot) radio telescope resides in a natural valley of Puerto Rico. The Arecibo telescope has been used for many astronomical research projects, including
![Дымок над Солнцем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/23/0001191159/suncme_soho_big.preview.gif)
11.04.1997
The Earth has once again endured a burst of particles from the Sun. The latest storm, which began Monday, was one of the best documented solar storms to date. At 10 am (EDT) ground...
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