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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Зеленый луч Солнца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/21/0001197207/greenflash_parviainen.preview.jpg)
21.03.2004
Many think it is just a myth. Others think it is true but its cause isn't known. Adventurers pride themselves on having seen it. It's a green flash from the Sun. The truth is the green flash does exist and its cause is well understood.
![Равноденствие +1 день](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/20/0001197205/equinoxp1_orman.preview.jpg)
20.03.2004
Twice a year, at the Spring and Fall equinox, the Sun rises due east. In an emphatic demonstration of this celestial alignment, photographer Joe Orman recorded this inspiring image of the Sun rising exactly along the east-west oriented Western Canal, in Tempe,Arizona, USA.
![Встреча с буйной кометой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/20/0001197204/wildcomp_stardust_c1.preview.jpg)
19.03.2004
Dynamic jets of gas and dust surround one of the most active planetary surfaces in the solar system in this wild-looking picture of a comet nucleus. The comet's designation is 81P/Wild...
![Марсоход "Спирит": панорама с края кратера Бонневилль](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/18/0001197157/bonnevillepan_spirit_c.preview.jpg)
18.03.2004
Scroll right and follow this breathtaking view of the martian surface from the southern edge of a small crater dubbed Bonneville. NASA's Spirit rover recorded the sharp 180-degree panorama on sols...
![Красное смещение 10: самая далекая галактика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/17/0001197074/z10_vlt.preview.jpg)
17.03.2004
What's the farthest galaxy known? The answer keeps changing as astronomers compete to find galaxies that top the list. The new claimed record holder is now the faint smudge indicated in the above images by an 8.2-meter Very Large Telescope (VLT) operating in Chile.
![Седна на окраине солнечной системы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/16/0001197008/sedna_nasa.preview.jpg)
16.03.2004
What is the most distant known object in our Solar System? A new answer to this centuries-old question was announced yesterday by NASA with the discovery of a dark red object dubbed Sedna. Although over twice the distance to Pluto, Sedna is near its closest approach to the Sun.
![Туманность Ориона в телескоп CFHT](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/15/0001196992/m42_cfht.preview.jpg)
15.03.2004
Few astronomical sights excite the imagination like the nearby stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away.
![Комета Хейла-Боппа над перевалом Вал Парола](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/15/0001196988/halebopp5_aac.preview.jpg)
14.03.2004
Comet Hale-Bopp became much brighter than any surrounding stars. It was seen even over bright city lights. Out away from city lights, however, it put on quite a spectacular show. Here Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed above Val Parola Pass in the Dolomite mountains surrounding Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
![Небо над Серро Тололо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/13/0001196982/sky_ctio.preview.jpg)
13.03.2004
High atop a Chilean mountain lies one of the premier observatories of the southern sky: the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). Pictured above is the dome surrounding one of the site's best known instruments, the 4-meter Blanco Telescope.
![Сатурн в рентгеновских лучах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/12/0001196951/xraySaturn_cxc_c1.preview.jpg)
12.03.2004
Above, the ringed planet Saturn shines in x-rays. Otherwise beyond the range of human vision, the eerie x-ray view was created by overlaying a computer generated outline of the gas giant's disk and ring system on a false-color picture of smoothed, reconstructed x-ray data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory.
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