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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![LL Ориона и туманность Ориона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/21/0001211023/llori_orion_hst_c14.preview.jpg)
20.01.2006
This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow. Adrift in Orion's stellar nursery and still in its formative years, variable star LL Orionis produces a wind more energetic than the wind from our own middle-aged Sun.
![Туманность Ориона. Вид в телескоп Хаббла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/21/0001211024/m42_hst_c45.preview.jpg)
19.01.2006
Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula. Also known as M42, the nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away.
![Колесо фортуны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/23/0001211044/cartwheel_5panelc.preview.jpg)
18.01.2006
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 400 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor (two smaller galaxies in the group are visible below and left).
![Грозовой воротник над Миссури](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/17/0001210974/rollcloud_bush.preview.jpg)
17.01.2006
What kind of cloud is this? A roll cloud. These rare long clouds may form near advancing cold fronts. In particular, a downdraft from an advancing storm front can cause moist warm air to rise, cool below its dew point, and so form a cloud.
![Капсула "Стардаста" возвращается на Землю](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/16/0001210957/stardustcomposite_nasa.preview.jpg)
16.01.2006
A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert yesterday after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters and airplanes. Like last time, no space aliens were involved. The saucer...
![Галактика Сомбреро в космический телескоп](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/15/0001210946/sombrero_hst.preview.jpg)
15.01.2006
Why does the Sombrero Galaxy look like a hat? Reasons include the Sombrero's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge.
![Луноход: лунный робот](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/16/0001210956/lunokhod.preview.jpg)
14.01.2006
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...
![Звезды в центре Галактики](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/02/10/0001220727/gcenter_spitzer_c11.preview.jpg)
13.01.2006
The center of our Milky Way Galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas. But in this stunning vista, the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared cameras, penetrate much of the dust revealing the stars of the crowded galactic center region.
![Улитка в инфракрасном свете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/16/0001210961/helix_spitzer_c45.preview.jpg)
12.01.2006
Over six hundred light years from Earth, in the constellation Aquarius, a sun-like star is dying. Its last few thousand years have produced the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a well studied and nearby example of a Planetary Nebula, typical of this final phase of stellar evolution.
![Головастики в IC 410](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/15/0001210939/ic410_crawford_f31.preview.jpg)
11.01.2006
This close-up view shows a portion of otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410 in striking false-colors. It also shows two remarkable denizens of the glowing gas cloud at the right - the "tadpoles" of IC 410. The picture is a composite of images taken through narrow band filters intended to trace atoms in the nebula.
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