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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Огромные пузыри вокруг Млечного Пути в гамма-лучах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/11/10/0001248073/bubble_fermi.preview.jpg)
9.11.2010
Did you know that our Milky Way Galaxy has huge bubbles emitting gamma rays from the direction of the galactic center? Neither did anybody. As the data from the Earth-orbiting Fermi satellite began acuminating over the past two years, however, a large and unusual feature toward our Galaxy's center became increasingly evident.
![NGC 4452: очень тонкая галактика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/11/09/0001248056/ngc4452_hst.preview.jpg)
8.11.2010
Why is there a line segment on the sky? In one of the more precise alignments known in the universe, what is pictured above is actually a disk galaxy being seen almost perfectly edge on. The image from the Hubble Space Telescope is a spectacular visual reminder of just how thin disk galaxies can be.
![700 километров до кометы Хартли 2](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/11/08/0001248040/hartley2close_epoxi.preview.jpg)
7.11.2010
What kind of comet is this? Last week, NASA's robotic EPOXI spacecraft whizzed past Comet 103P/Hartley, also known as Comet Hartley 2, and recorded images and data that are both strange and fascinating. EPOXI was near its closest approach -- about 700 kilometers away -- when it snapped the above picture.
![Центр Центавра А](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/11/08/0001248036/cenA_hst.preview.jpg)
6.11.2010
A fantastic jumble of young blue star clusters, gigantic glowing gas clouds, and imposing dark dust lanes surrounds the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A. This mosaic of Hubble Space Telescope images taken in blue, green, and red light has been processed to present a natural color picture of this cosmic maelstrom.
![Слоновий хобот в IC 1396](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/11/06/0001248008/IC1396RolfGeissinger_900c.preview.jpg)
5.11.2010
Like an illustration in 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. Of course, the cosmic elephant's trunk is over 20 light-years long.
![Пролёт кометы Хартли 2](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/11/08/0001248028/hartleymontage1x5_epoxi900.preview.jpg)
4.11.2010
Follow these 5 frames clockwise starting from the top left to track the view from the EPOXI mission spacecraft as it approached, passed under, and then looked back at the nucleus of comet Hartley 2 on November 4. Its closest approach distance was about 700 kilometers.
![Ночные огни](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/11/06/0001248009/iss025e010008_900c.preview.jpg)
3.11.2010
Constellations of lights sprawl across this night scene, but they don't belong in the skies of planet Earth. Instead, the view looks down from the International Space Station as it passed over the United States along the northern Gulf Coast on October 29. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft is docked in the foreground.
![Туманность Ожерелье](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/11/03/0001247963/necklace_corradi900c.preview.jpg)
2.11.2010
The small constellation Sagitta sports this large piece of cosmic jewelry, dubbed the Necklace Nebula. The newly discovered example of a ring-shaped planetary nebula is about 15,000 light-years distant. Its bright ring with pearls of glowing gas is half a light-year across.
![Спикулы: струи на Солнце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/11/02/0001247937/spicules_nso.preview.jpg)
1.11.2010
Imagine a pipe as wide as a state and as long as the Earth. Now imagine that this pipe is filled with hot gas moving 50,000 kilometers per hour. Further imagine that this pipe is not made of metal but a transparent magnetic field.
![Млечный Путь над вулканом Питон-де-ла-Фурнез](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/11/01/0001247914/volcanosky_perrot.preview.jpg)
31.10.2010
On Reunion Island, it is known simply as "The Volcano." To others, it is known as the Piton de la Fournaise, which is French for the Peak of the Furnace. It is one of the most active volcanoes in the world.
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