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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Холодная пыль в туманности Орла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199940/eagleneb_iso_c1.preview.jpg)
14.09.2001
Stars are born in M16's Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery 7,000 light-years from Earth toward the constellation Serpens. The striking nebula's star forming pillars of gas and dust are familiar to astronomers from images at visible wavelengths, but this false-color picture shows off the nebula in infrared light.
![Рентгеновское изображение пульсара в Циркуле](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199941/cirpulsar_cxo.preview.jpg)
13.09.2001
A bizarre stellar corpse 19,000 light-years from Earth, pulsar PSR B1509-58 beckons from the small southern constellation of Circinus. Like its cousin at the heart of the Crab nebula, the Circinus pulsar is a rapidly spinning, magnetized neutron star.
![Зодиакальный свет и ложный рассвет](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199942/zodimk_concam.preview.jpg)
12.09.2001
An unusual triangle of light will be particularly bright near the eastern horizon before sunrise during the next two months for observers in Earth's northern hemisphere. Once considered a false dawn, this triangle of light is actually Zodiacal Light, light reflected from interplanetary dust particles.
![Панорама спиральной галактики NGC 3310](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199943/ngc3310b_hst.preview.jpg)
11.09.2001
The party is still going on in spiral galaxy NGC 3310. Roughly 100 million years ago, NGC 3310 likely collided with a smaller galaxy causing the large spiral galaxy to light up with a tremendous burst of star formation.
![Мерцание в центре Галактики — признак черной дыры](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199944/sgraflare_chandra_big.preview.jpg)
10.09.2001
Why would the center of our Galaxy flicker? Many astronomers believe the only credible answer involves a black hole. During observations of Sagittarius A* with the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, the bright X-ray source at the very center of our Milky Way brightened dramatically for a few minutes.
![NGC 3293: яркое молодое рассеянное звездное скопление](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/09/20/0001170832/ngc3293_aao_big.preview.jpg)
9.09.2001
Hot blue stars shine brightly in this beautiful, recently formed galactic or "open" star cluster. Open cluster NGC 3293 is located in the constellation Carina, lies at a distance of about 8000 light years, and has a particularly high abundance of these young bright stars.
![Покрытие Сатурна Луной](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/09/20/0001170829/ocsat_anim.preview.gif)
8.09.2001
On September 18, 1997, many stargazers in the U. S. were able to watch a lovely early morning lunar occultation as a bright Moon passed in front of Saturn. Using a 1.2 meter reflector, astronomer Kris Stanek had an excellent view of this dream-like event from the Whipple Observatory atop Arizona's Mount Hopkins.
![Луна и Солнце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199945/tse2001cmp_espenak_c1.preview.jpg)
7.09.2001
Today's composite image was made from 22 separate pictures of the Moon and Sun all taken from Chisamba, Zambia during the total phase of the 2001 June 21 solar eclipse. The multiple exposures...
![Луна и звезды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199946/moonstars_noao.preview.jpg)
6.09.2001
Here's something you don't see too often ... a detailed picture of the full Moon surrounded by a rich field of background stars. It's true that bright moonlight scattered by the atmosphere...
![3C175: квазарная пушка](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199948/3c175_vla.preview.jpg)
5.09.2001
3C175 is not only a quasar, it is a galaxy-fueled particle cannon. Visible as the central dot is quasar 3C175, the active center of a galaxy so distant that the light we see from it was emitted when the Earth was just forming.
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