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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Фуллерeны - миниатюрные космические "машины времени"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/20/0001186012/fullerene_beardmore.preview.jpg)
19.01.2003
Scientists have found, unexpectedly, tiny time capsules from billions of years in the past. The discovery involves small molecules that can apparently become trapped during the formation of large enclosed molecules known as fullerenes, or buckyballs.
![Волокна в Петле Лебедя](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/03/0001217306/cygloop_blair.preview.jpg)
18.01.2003
Subtle and delicate in appearance, these are filaments of shocked interstellar gas -- part of the expanding blast wave from a violent stellar explosion. Recorded in November 1997 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope, the picture is a closeup of a supernova remnant known as the Cygnus Loop.
![Звезды и туманность "Пузырь"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/19/0001185974/ngc7635_lula_c2.preview.jpg)
17.01.2003
Seemingly adrift in an cosmic sea of stars and gas, this delicate, floating apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635 -- The Bubble Nebula. In this wide-angle view, the Bubble nebula lies at the center of a larger complex of shocked glowing gas about 11,000 light-years distant in the fair constellation Cassiopeia.
![NGC 1700: Эллиптическая галактика и вращающийся диск](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/16/0001185889/ngc1700_cxc.preview.jpg)
16.01.2003
In spiral galaxies, majestic winding arms of young stars and interstellar gas and dust rotate in a disk around a bulging galactic nucleus. Elliptical galaxies seem to be simpler, randomly swarming with old stars and lacking gas and dust.
![Кольцо у планеты Уран](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/15/0001185865/uranusrings_eso.preview.jpg)
15.01.2003
Yes it does look like Saturn, but Saturn is one of only four giant ringed planets in our Solar System. And while Saturn has the brightest rings, this system of rings and moons actually belongs to planet Uranus, imaged here in near-infrared light by the Antu telescope at the ESO Parnal Observatory in Chile.
![192: "неправильная" галактика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/15/0001185863/0313comp_keel.preview.jpg)
14.01.2003
Centered above is distant galaxy 0313-192, some one billion light-years away. Radio emission from the galaxy has been mapped by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array and is shown in red, composited with a visible light image from the Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys.
![Туманность Гантель в линиях водорода и кислорода](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/14/0001185807/dumbbellho_noao.preview.jpg)
13.01.2003
The first hint of what will become of our Sun was discovered inadvertently in 1764. At that time, Charles Messier was compiling a list of "annoying" diffuse objects not to be confused with "interesting" comets.
![Шарик из космоса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/13/0001185777/spherule_apollo11.preview.jpg)
12.01.2003
When a meteorite strikes the Moon, the energy of the impact melts some of the splattering rock, a fraction of which might cool into tiny glass beads. Many of these glass beads were present in lunar soil samples returned to Earth by the Apollo missions.
![Аполлон-17: стерео-изображение лунного камня](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/13/0001185775/apollo17stereo_vantuyne_c1.preview.jpg)
11.01.2003
Humans left the Moon over thirty years ago, but donning red-blue glasses (red for the left eye) you can share this excellent stereo perspective view of their last stomping ground. Recorded by Eugene Cernan...
![Крабовидная туманность и планета Сатурн](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/10/0001182341/saturnm1_wodaski_c2.preview.jpg)
10.01.2003
Wandering through the constellation Taurus, Saturn made its closest approach to planet Earth last month, tilting its lovely rings toward appreciative skygazers while rising high in midnight skies. On January 4th and 5th, Saturn...
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