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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Серп Луны встречается с Вечерней звездой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/09/13/0001293119/MoonVenusArg_2013_09_08_2169_16s950.preview.jpg)
13.09.2013
On September 8, brilliant planet Venus appearing as the evening star stood near a slender, crescent Moon at sunset. The close celestial pairing or conjunction was a scene enjoyed by skygazers around the world. But from some locations in South America, the Moon actually passed in front of Venus in a lunar occultation.
![Звёзды и пыль в Южной Короне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/09/12/0001293080/NGC6726-9Bobillo950.preview.jpg)
12.09.2013
Cosmic dust clouds sprawl across a rich field of stars in this sweeping telescopic vista near the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. Less than 500 light-years away the dust clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in the Milky Way.
![След от запуска LADEE](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/09/11/0001293036/JeffBerkes5334_NASA-LADEE-Launch-sept2013APOD900px.preview.jpg)
11.09.2013
On September 6, a starry night and the Milky Way witnessed the launch of a Minotaur V rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. So did a large part of the eastern United States, as the spectacular night launch was easily visible even from light polluted urban areas.
![Возможно, на внесолнечной суперземле Глизе 1214b есть вода](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/09/11/0001293015/gliese1214b_eso_960.preview.jpg)
10.09.2013
Might this distant planet hold water? Actually, given how close Gliese 1214b is to its parent star, any water, if it exists, would surely be in the form of steam. In the above artist...
![Близкая переменная звезда – цефеида RS Кормы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/09/10/0001292967/rspuppis_bryne_960.preview.jpg)
9.09.2013
It is one of the most important stars in the sky. This is partly because, by coincidence, it is surrounded by a dazzling reflection nebula. Pulsating RS Puppis, the brightest star in the image center, is some ten times more massive than our Sun and on average 15,000 times more luminous.
![Грозовой воротник над Висконсином](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/09/09/0001292919/rollcloud_hanrahan_960.preview.jpg)
8.09.2013
What kind of cloud is this? A type of arcus cloud called a roll cloud. These rare long clouds may form near advancing cold fronts. In particular, a downdraft from an advancing storm front can cause moist warm air to rise, cool below its dew point, and so form a cloud.
![Ночь в ледяном лесу в Андах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/09/08/0001292882/IceNightPanTafreshi-s.preview.jpg)
7.09.2013
This forest of snow and ice penitentes reflects moonlight shinning across the Chajnantor plateau. The region lies in the Chilean Andes at an altitude of 5,000 meters, not far from one of planet Earth's major astronomical observatories, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
![Спокойный Стрелец A](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/09/08/0001292880/sgra_gasChandra_900c.preview.jpg)
6.09.2013
Hot gas is hard to swallow. At least that seems to be true for the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Known as source Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's black hole is centered in this infrared (red and yellow hues) and X-ray (blue) composite.
![M1: удивительный расширяющийся Краб](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/09/06/0001292754/m1_2012sblock950c.preview.jpg)
5.09.2013
The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of debris from the explosion of a massive star.
![IRAS 20324: испаряющаяся протозвезда](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/09/05/0001292697/iras20324_hubble_960.preview.jpg)
4.09.2013
Will this caterpillar-shaped interstellar cloud one day evolve into a butterfly-shaped nebula? No one is sure. What is sure is that IRAS 20324+4057, on the inside, is contracting to form a new star.
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