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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Газовая пуля из космического взрыва N49](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/07/01/0001245785/n49_chandra.preview.jpg)
30.06.2010
What is that strange blue blob on the far right? No one is sure, but it might be a speeding remnant of a powerful supernova that was unexpectedly lopsided. Scattered debris from supernova explosion N49 lights up the sky in this gorgeous composited image based on data from the Chandra and Hubble Space Telescopes.
![Деревья, небо и Галактический глаз](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/06/29/0001245767/galacticeye_perrot.preview.jpg)
29.06.2010
Is beauty in the eye of this beholder? Earlier this month, over RИunion Island in the Indian Ocean, a playful photographer with an eye for the sky took eight images and composed the above intriguing picture.
![Частное лунное затмение](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/06/28/0001245750/partialeclipse_riza.preview.jpg)
28.06.2010
What's happened to the Moon? This past weekend, once again, part of the Moon moved through the Earth's shadow. This happens about once or twice a year, on the average, but not each month since the Moon's orbit around the Earth is slightly tilted.
![Все цвета Солнца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/06/28/0001245732/sunspectrum_noao.preview.jpg)
27.06.2010
It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Shown above are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device.
![Молодое звёздное скопление Вестерланд 2](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/06/26/0001245709/wd2_xrayir_c790.preview.jpg)
26.06.2010
Dusty stellar nursery RCW 49 surrounds young star cluster Westerlund 2 in this remarkable composite skyscape from beyond the visible spectrum of light. Infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope is shown in black...
![Звёздная ночь над Аламутом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/06/25/0001245699/Alamut-Babak1.preview.jpg)
25.06.2010
A meteor's streak and the arc of the Milky Way hang over the imposing mountain fortress of Alamut in this starry scene. Found in the central Alborz Mountains of Iran, Alamut Castle was built into the rock in the 9th century. The name means Eagle's Nest.
![Тёмная башня в Скорпионе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/06/25/0001245690/DarkTower_davis900c.preview.jpg)
24.06.2010
In silhouette against a crowded star field toward the constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some the image of an ominous dark tower. In fact, clumps of dust and molecular gas collapsing...
![Закат на Международной Космической Станции.](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/06/24/0001245668/earthatmosphere_iss23.preview.jpg)
23.06.2010
What are these strange color bands being seen from the International Space Station? The Sun setting through Earth's atmosphere. Pictured above, a sunset captured last month by the ISS's Expedition 23 crew shows in vivid detail many layers of the Earth's thin atmosphere.
![Четырёхсопочные острова: вид сверху](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/06/22/0001245641/islands_terra.preview.jpg)
22.06.2010
Our Earth is covered by volcanoes. Volcanoes are breaks in the Earth's cool surface where hot liquid rock from the interior comes out -- sometimes suddenly. In the above image from the ASTER camera...
![Восход над Стоунхенджем в день летнего солнцестояния.](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/06/20/0001364609/stonehengesun_alexander.preview.jpg)
21.06.2010
Today the Sun reaches its northernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, the date traditionally marks a change of seasons -- from spring to summer in Earth's Northern Hemisphere and from fall to winter in Earth's Southern Hemisphere.
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