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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Явление галактики Двинглу-1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/21/0001191096/dwingeloo1_int_big.preview.jpg)
1.03.1997
Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. But if you look closely at the center of the above photograph, you will see a whole spiral galaxy behind the field of stars.
![NGC 891 - спиральная галактика с торца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/21/0001191095/ngc891_kp.preview.jpg)
28.02.1997
Is our Galaxy this thin? We believe so. The Milky Way, like NGC 891 pictured above, has the width of a typical spiral galaxy. Spirals have most of their bright stars, gas, and obscuring dust in a thin disk.
![Яркая комета Хейла-Боппа](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/21/0001191093/halebopp1_tf.preview.jpg)
27.02.1997
What's that fuzzy star? It's not a star, it's Comet Hale-Bopp. Not only has Comet Hale-Bopp become easy to see in the morning sky, it has become hard not to see it. It's that bright. Any morning just before sunrise, look towards the east.
![Комета, пасущаяся около Солнца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/09/0001217476/sungrazer1_lasco_big.preview.gif)
26.02.1997
Arcing toward a fiery fate, this Sungrazer comet was recorded by the SOHO spacecraft's Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO) on Dec. 23rd, 1996. LASCO uses an occulting disk, partially visible at the lower...
![Звездные войны в NGC 664](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/10/15/0001208725/starngc664_whipple_big.preview.gif)
25.02.1997
Long ago in a galaxy far, far away, locked in their final desperate struggle against the force of gravity ... two stars exploded! Stellar explosions - Supernovae - are among the most powerful events in the Universe, estimated to release an equivalent energy of up to 1 million trillion trillion (1 followed by 30 zeros) megatons of TNT.
![След незванного гостя](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/21/0001191090/cartwheel2_hst_big.preview.jpg)
24.02.1997
In yesterday's episode our hero, the Cartwheel galaxy, had survived a chance cosmic collision with a small intruder galaxy - triggering an expanding ring of star formation. Hot on the intruder's trail, a team of multiwavelength sleuths have compiled evidence tracking the reckless galaxy fleeing the scene.
![Колесо фортуны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/21/0001191089/cartwheel1_hst_big.preview.jpg)
23.02.1997
By chance, a collision of two galaxies has created a surprisingly recognizable shape on a cosmic scale - "The Cartwheel Galaxy". The Cartwheel is part of a group of galaxies about 500 million light years away in the constellation of Sculptor (two smaller galaxies in the group are visible on the right).
![Небо в гамма-лучах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/21/0001191088/allsky1_egret_big.preview.gif)
22.02.1997
What if you could "see" gamma rays? If you could, the sky would seem to be filled with a shimmering high-energy glow from the most exotic and mysterious objects in the Universe.
![Новые глаза для космического телескопа](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/21/0001191087/hst2nd_sts82_big.preview.jpg)
21.02.1997
The Hubble Space Telescope's second servicing mission has been completed. Every few years, the telescope is visited by a Space Shuttle to allow astronauts to switch old instruments for new. This time...
![Комета Хейла-Боппа и туманность Гантель](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/21/0001191086/halebopp1_oat_big.preview.jpg)
20.02.1997
Comet Hale-Bopp is now slowly moving across the morning sky. During its trip to our inner Solar System, the comet passes in front of several notable objects. Here Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed on February 11th superposed nearly in front of the picturesque Dumbbell Nebula, visible on the upper right.
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