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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Старт "Атлантиса"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/07/27/0001169927/nightlaunch_sts104.preview.jpg)
23.07.2001
Birds don't fly this high. Airplanes don't go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than human can even comprehend what is going on, nor could any human just a millennium ago. The launch of a rocket bound for space is an event that inspires awe and challenges description.
![NGC 1977: голубая отражательная туманность в Орионе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/07/27/0001169926/ngc1977_aat_big.preview.jpg)
22.07.2001
The Orion Nebula is visible to the unaided eye as a fuzzy patch near the famous belt of three stars in the Orion. The above picture captures a part of the Orion Nebula that primarily reflects light from bright Orion stars.
![25 лет назад: "Викинги" на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/07/24/0001169876/mars_surface_vik1_big.preview.jpg)
21.07.2001
On July 20, 1976, NASA's Viking 1 lander become the first spacecraft to land on Mars, followed weeks later by its twin robot explorer, the Viking 2 lander. Operating on the Martian surface...
![Хобот слона в IC 1396](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/10/03/0001170999/ic1396ele_gendler.preview.jpg)
20.07.2001
Like a picture from a galactic Just So Story, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula winds through the emission nebula and young star cluster complex IC 1396, in the high and far off constellation of Cepheus. Bright swept-back ridges compose the suggestive form, outlining pockets of interstellar dust and gas.
![Пульсар в туманности Вела](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/07/20/0001169852/velawide_cxo.preview.jpg)
19.07.2001
The Vela pulsar was born 10,000 years ago at the center of a supernova -- an exploding star. In this Chandra Observatory x-ray image, the pulsar still produces a glowing nebula at the heart of the expanding cloud of stellar debris.
![Вид Марса с Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/07/20/0001169851/mars_hst.preview.jpg)
18.07.2001
Last month, Mars and Earth were right next to each other in their orbits. Formally called opposition, the event was highlighted by a very bright Mars for skywatchers and a good photo opportunity for the Hubble Space Telescope. Above, Hubble snapped the highest resolution picture of Mars ever obtained from the Earth.
![Туманность Киля в трех цветах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/07/19/0001169849/carina_noao.preview.jpg)
17.07.2001
Stars, like people, do not always go gentle into that good night. The above Carina Nebula, also known as the Keyhole Nebula and NGC 3372, results from dying star Eta Carinae's violently casting off dust and gas during its final centuries.
![Вокруг одной из близких звезд CW Leonis найдена вода](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/07/18/0001169835/cwleonis_swas.preview.jpg)
16.07.2001
Do worlds outside our Solar System have oceans of water like Earth? An indication that such worlds might exist was bolstered recently by new evidence that nearby star system CW Leonis harbors water. Recent observations with the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) found significant detections of light at specific colors emitted by water.
![Ио в естественных цветах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/05/05/0001197947/iotrue_galileo.preview.jpg)
15.07.2001
The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. This picture, showing Io's true colors, was taken in 1999 July by the Galileo spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter. Io's colors derive from sulfur and molten silicate rock. The unusual surface of Io is kept very young by its system of active volcanoes.
![Солнечная система в объективе веб-камеры](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/07/17/0001169831/ssmontage_chester.preview.jpg)
14.07.2001
Ranging throughout the solar system, these pictures all have something in common. They were taken with an 8 inch diameter telescope, a size popular with amateur astronomy buffs, and slightly modified "web cam" of the type widely used to send images out over the internet.
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