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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Галактика "Колесо Телеги"](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/14/0001168911/cartwheel_aao.preview.jpg)
12.06.2001
By chance, a collision of two galaxies has created a surprisingly recognizable shape on a cosmic scale. The Cartwheel Galaxy is part of a group of galaxies about 500 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor. Two smaller galaxies in the group are visible on the left of the above photograph.
![Шаровое скопление M2](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/14/0001168900/m2_noao.preview.jpg)
11.06.2001
Beneath the south pole of our Milky Way Galaxy lies a ball of over 100,000 stars. M2, the second object on Charles Messier's eighteenth century list of bright diffuse sky objects...
![Гигантское скопление искажает и расщепляет изображения](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/14/0001168899/cl0024_hst.preview.jpg)
10.06.2001
What are those strange blue objects? Many are images of a single, unusual, beaded, blue, ring-like galaxy which just happens to line-up behind a giant cluster of galaxies. Cluster galaxies here appear yellow and -- together with the cluster's dark matter -- act as a gravitational lens.
![Аполлон-17: лунный автомобиль](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/14/0001168898/rover_apollo17.preview.jpg)
9.06.2001
In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours exploring the Moon's Taurus-Littrow valley while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. Cernan and Schmitt were the last humans to walk or ride on the Moon - aided in their explorations by a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
![Три галактики в созвездии Дракона](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/13/0001168819/draco3_gendler_c1.preview.jpg)
8.06.2001
This intriguing trio of galaxies is sometimes called the NGC 5985/Draco Group and so (quite reasonably) is located in the northern constellation Draco. From left to right are face-on spiral NGC 5985, elliptical galaxy...
![NGC 253: Рентген крупным планом](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/13/0001168808/n253_xrayopt_c1.preview.jpg)
7.06.2001
Astronomers now report that Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of galaxies known to be frantically forming stars show that these galaxies also contain luminous x-ray sources -- thought to be intermediate mass black holes and immense clouds of superheated gas. Take the lovely island universe NGC 253 for example.
![NGC 1512: Панхроматический вид](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/13/0001168796/n1512core_hstpan_c1.preview.jpg)
6.06.2001
This spectacular color picture of the core of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 (bottom panel) is a composite of the seven Hubble Space Telescope images arrayed along the top. Each top panel image was made with a filter and camera sensitive to a different wavelength band in the electromagnetic spectrum.
![Реконструкция астероида Эрос](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/11/0001168761/erosreconstruct_near.preview.jpg)
5.06.2001
Orbiting the Sun between Mars and Earth, asteroid 433 Eros was visited by the robot spacecraft NEAR-Shoemaker in 2000 February. Some of the 100,000+ images taken by NEAR of the tumbling space rock have been combined into the above high-resolution composite.
![Формирующаяся звездная система T Tauri](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/11/0001168758/ttauri_cfht.preview.jpg)
4.06.2001
What did the Sun look like before there were planets? A prototype laboratory for the formation of low mass stars like our Sun is the T Tauri system, one of the brighter star systems toward the constellation of Taurus. In young systems, gravity causes a gas cloud to condense.
![Симфония гамма-всплеска 000301C](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/12/0001168774/grb000301c_hst.preview.gif)
3.06.2001
Last March, telescopic instruments in Earth and space tracked a tremendous explosion that occurred across the universe. A nearly unprecedented symphony of international observations began abruptly on 2000 March 1 when Earth-orbiting RXTE, Sun-orbiting Ulysses, and asteroid-orbiting NEAR all detected a 10-second burst of high-frequency gamma radiation. Within 48 hours astronomers
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