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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Орион: большая картина](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192435/orionfull_jcc_big.preview.jpg)
1.12.1997
Orion is big. Some of the stars that form the constellation of Orion are part of a giant gas cloud complex that stretches over 100 light years and appears more than 50 times the diameter of the Moon.
![Меркурий: ад, покрытый кратерами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/04/0001205456/merc2_m10.preview.gif)
30.11.1997
Mercury's surface looks similar to our Moon's. Each is heavily cratered and made of rock. Mercury's diameter is about 4800 km, while the Moon's is slightly less at about 3500 km (compared with about 12,700 km for the Earth). But Mercury is unique in many ways.
![Лазеры звезды Эта Киля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192433/eta_laser_big.preview.jpg)
29.11.1997
Have you heard about the great LASER light show in the sky? A team led by K. Davidson (U. Michigan) and S. Johansson (U. Lund) discovered that the chaotically variable star Eta Carinae emits ultraviolet light in such a narrow band that it is most probably LASER light!
![Снова бета Живописца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192432/betapic_eso_big.preview.jpg)
28.11.1997
In the early 1980s, Beta Pictoris became one of the most important stars in the sky. Satellite and ground-based telescopic observations revealed the presence of a surrounding outer disk of material and an inner "clear" zone about the size of our solar system - strong evidence for the formation of planets.
![Внутренние спутники Юпитера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192431/jupinner_gal_big.preview.jpg)
27.11.1997
The potato-shaped inner moons of Jupiter are lined-up in this mosaic "family portrait" of these tiny Jovian satellites. The individual images were recorded over the last year by NASA's Galileo spacecraft and are scaled to the moons' relative sizes.
![Спутники Урана, кольца и облака](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192430/uranusleft_nic_big.preview.jpg)
26.11.1997
The giant planet Uranus is faint and featureless when viewed in visible light. But this pair of near-infrared mosaics from the Hubble Space Telescope's NICMOS camera reveals moons, rings, and clouds of this distant gas planet.
![Комета и галактика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192429/hbm31_jcc.preview.jpg)
25.11.1997
The Moon almost ruined this photograph. During late March and early April, Comet Hale-Bopp passed nearly in front of the Andromeda Galaxy. Here the Great Comet of 1997 and the Great Galaxy in Andromeda were photographed together on March 24th. The problem was the brightness of the Moon.
![Струя, распространяющаяся почти со скоростью света](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192428/cygjet2_umi.preview.jpg)
24.11.1997
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity says that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Jets of protons and electrons that shoot away from objects such as quasars and black holes appear to travel at speeds approaching this maximum speed, though. Such jets carry tremendous energy and can ram straight through interstellar material.
![Тритон: самый большой спутник Нептуна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/11/08/0001194722/triton1_vg2_big.preview.gif)
23.11.1997
On October 10th, 1846, William Lassell was observing the newly discovered planet Neptune. He was attempting to confirm his observation, made just the previous week, that Neptune had a ring. But this time he discovered that Neptune had a satellite as well.
![Прыжки Сервейора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192426/surveyor6_pan_big.preview.gif)
22.11.1997
This panorama of the cratered lunar surface was constructed from images returned by the US Surveyor 6 lander. Surveyor 6 was not the first spacecraft to accomplish a soft landing on the Moon ... but it was the first to land and then lift off again!
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