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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Астрономической картинке дня шесть лет!](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/18/0001169027/apod6.preview.jpg)
16.06.2001
Welcome to the seventh year of Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). Editors Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell are extremely grateful for the continued large volume of gracious e-mail and APOD submissions (and also for the "occasional" critical note!). Today we would like to offer a very sincere thank you to all.
![Объекты Мессье и Марс](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/15/0001168947/m8m20mars_cole.preview.jpg)
15.06.2001
A telescopic tour of the constellation Sagittarius offers the many bright clusters and nebulae of dimensioned space in a starscape surrounding the galactic center. This gorgeous color deep-sky photograph visits two such lovely sights, cataloged by the 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier as M8 and M20.
![Скопление Арки и его окрестности](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/15/0001168939/arches_radirx.preview.jpg)
14.06.2001
The most compact cluster of stars known in our galaxy, the Arches cluster, boasts 100 or so massive, young stars contained within a diameter of one light-year. Seen toward the constellation Sagittarius, the Arches...
![M94: За голубой границей видимого спектра](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/06/14/0001168902/m94visuv_walleruit.preview.jpg)
13.06.2001
Today's galaxy, M94 (NGC 4736), lies 15 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. In the red light image (left), its very bright nucleus and tightly wound spiral arms seem to slowly fade into a faint outer disk.
![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.
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