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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![NGC 6992: волокна туманности Вуаль](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/12/01/0001237158/filaments_iac.preview.jpg)
30.11.2009
Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 7,500 years ago that star exploded in a supernova leaving the Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus Loop.
![Солнце и серп Земли с МКС](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/11/30/0001237145/sunearthpanel_sts129.preview.jpg)
29.11.2009
This was just one more breathtaking view from the International Space Station. The Sun, a crescent Earth, and the long arm of a solar panel were all visible outside a window when the Space Shuttle Atlantis visited the orbiting outpost last week. Reflections from the window and hexagonal lens flares from the camera are superposed.
![Древние слоистые холмы на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/11/30/0001237146/marslayers_mgs.preview.jpg)
28.11.2009
Is this a picture of Mars or Earth? Oddly enough, it is a picture of Mars. What may appear to some as a terrestrial coastline is in fact a formation of ancient layered hills and wind-blown sand on Mars. The above-pictured region spans about three kilometers in Schiaparelli Crater.
![Звездные дуги над Аннапурной](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/12/03/0001237192/AnnapurnaStartrails_hao900.preview.jpg)
27.11.2009
In myth, Atlas holds up the heavens. But in this moonlit mountainscape, peaks of the Himalayan Annapurna Range appear to prop up the sky as seen from Ghandruk, Nepal. From left to right the three main peaks are Annapurna South (7,219 meters), Hiunchuli (6,441 metes), and Machapuchare (6,995 meters).
![Джеты NGC 1097](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/11/27/0001237104/NGC1097S_gendler900.preview.jpg)
26.11.2009
Enigmatic spiral galaxy NGC 1097 lies about 45 million light-years away in the southern constellation Fornax. The small companion galaxy, just below and left of center, that seems to be wrapped in its spiral arms, is not NGC 1097's most peculiar feature though.
![Широкое поле около M78](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/11/27/0001237097/m78wide_tvdavis900.preview.jpg)
25.11.2009
Interstellar dust clouds and glowing nebulae abound in the fertile constellation of Orion. One of the brightest, M78, is centered in this colorful, wide field view, covering an area north of Orion's belt. At a distance of about 1,500 light-years, the bluish reflection nebula is around 5 light-years across.
![Панорама Млечного пути](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/11/27/0001237102/mwpan_mellinger.preview.jpg)
24.11.2009
If you could go far away from the Earth and look around the entire sky -- what would you see? Such was the goal of the All-Sky Milky Way Panorama 2.0 project of Axel Mellinger.
![Фонтаны на Энцеладе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/11/25/0001237071/enceladus12_cassini.preview.jpg)
23.11.2009
What's happening on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus? Enormous ice jets are erupting. Giant plumes of ice have been photographed in dramatic fashion by the robotic Cassini spacecraft during this past weekend's flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
![Серп Земли с корабля Розетта](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/11/23/0001237061/crescentearth_rosetta.preview.jpg)
22.11.2009
Goodbye Earth. Earlier this month, ESA's interplanetary Rosetta spacecraft zoomed past the Earth on its way back across the Solar System. Pictured above, Earth showed a bright crescent phase featuring the South Pole to the passing rocket ship.
![Световое эхо от V838 Единорога](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/11/22/0001237047/v838mon_hst.preview.jpg)
21.11.2009
What caused this outburst of V838 Mon? For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon's outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it became the brightest star in the entire Milky Way Galaxy in January 2002. Then, just as suddenly, it faded.
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