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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
!["Превосходная"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/12/18/0001232450/LaSuperba_parkercarboni_c800.preview.jpg)
18.12.2008
Y Canum Venaticorum (Y CVn) is a very rare star in planet Earth's night sky. It's also very red, exhibiting such a remarkable spectrum of light, 19th century astronomer Angelo Secchi dubbed it La Superba.
![Гантели](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/12/17/0001232434/DoubleDumbbell_Lopez_c0.preview.jpg)
17.12.2008
These two nebulae are cataloged as M27 (left) and M76, popularly known as The Dumbbell and the Little Dumbbell. Not intended to indicate substandard mental prowess, their popular names refer to their similar, dumbbell or hourglass shapes.
![Орион над горой Немрут на рассвете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/12/16/0001232416/nemrutorion_tezel.preview.jpg)
16.12.2008
What's that in front of Orion? Forty kilometers north of Kahta, Turkey, lies Mount Nemrut, a mountain adorned with the fragments of vast statues built over 2000 years ago. The stone sculptures once...
![Солнечная колонна над Северной Каролиной](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/12/16/0001232412/sunpillar_holdsclaw.preview.jpg)
15.12.2008
Have you ever seen a sun pillar? When the air is cold and the Sun is rising or setting, falling ice crystals can reflect sunlight and create an unusual column of light. Ice sometimes forms flat, six-sided shaped crystals as it falls from high-level clouds.
![Зодиакальный свет над Нью-Мехико](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/12/16/0001232413/zodiacal_park.preview.jpg)
14.12.2008
An unusual triangle of light is visible this time of year just before dawn. Once considered a false dawn, this triangle of light is actually Zodiacal Light, light reflected from interplanetary dust particles. The triangle is clearly visible in the above image taken from New Mexico, USA, in October.
![150-см рефлектор](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/12/15/0001232409/MtWilson-60-InchDec01.preview.jpg)
13.12.2008
On the night of December 13, 1908, 100 years ago today, the 60-inch diameter reflecting telescope of Mount Wilson Observatory was first tested on the stars. It became the first successful large reflecting telescope.
![Восход Луны над Ликской обсерваторией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/12/12/0001232365/LickMoonrise_baldridge_c800.preview.jpg)
12.12.2008
As viewed from a well chosen location at sunset, October's gorgeous Full Moon rose behind Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose, California. Captured in this lovely telescopic view, historic Lick Observatory is perched on the mountain's 4,200 foot summit, observatory and rising Moon momentarily sharing the warm color of filtered sunlight.
![В центре Млечного Пути](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/12/11/0001232359/mwcenter_eso_c800.preview.jpg)
11.12.2008
At the center of our Milky Way Galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. Once a controversial claim, this conclusion is now solidly based on 16 years of observations that map the orbits of 28 stars very near the galactic center.
![NGC 281](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/12/10/0001232350/NGC281_crawford800.preview.jpg)
10.12.2008
Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and it's almost easy to miss stars of the open cluster IC 1590. But, formed within the nebula, that cluster's young, massive stars ultimately power the pervasive nebular glow.
![M45: звездное скопление Плеяды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/12/09/0001232345/pleiades_jones.preview.jpg)
9.12.2008
Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters.
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