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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Щель Энке возникла из-за проходов спутника Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/07/02/0001198606/encke_cassini_fc1.preview.jpg)
2.07.2004
Yesterday, Cassini became the first spacecraft to enter orbit around the gas giant Saturn, rocketing through a 25,000 kilometer wide gap in the distant planet's magnificent system of icy rings at about 15 kilometers per second.
![Слегка наклоненная галактика NGC 7331](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/07/01/0001198591/ngc7331_spitzer_c1.preview.jpg)
1.07.2004
If our own Milky Way galaxy were 50 million light-years away with its disk inclined slightly to our line of sight, it would look a lot like large spiral galaxy NGC 7331. In fact...
![Феба: комета превратилась в спутник Сатурна?](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/06/30/0001198568/phoebe3_cassini.preview.jpg)
30.06.2004
Was Saturn's moon Phoebe once a comet? Images from the robotic Cassini spacecraft taken two weeks ago when entering the neighborhood of Saturn indicate that Phoebe may have originated in the outer Solar System.
![В центре туманности NGC 6559](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/06/29/0001198561/n6559_noao.preview.jpg)
29.06.2004
Bright gas and dark dust permeate the space between stars in the center of a nebula known as NGC 6559. The gas, primarily hydrogen, is responsible for the diffuse red glow of the emission nebula.
![Марсоход Спирит достиг Колумбийских гор](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/06/28/0001198559/hills_spirit.preview.jpg)
28.06.2004
The Spirit robotic rover on Mars has now reached the Columbia Hills on Mars. Two of the hills are shown on approach near the beginning of June. The above true-color picture shows very nearly what a human would see from Spirit's vantage point.
![Скопление галактик Abell 1689 искривляет пространство](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/06/28/0001198557/abell1689_hstacs_c1.preview.jpg)
27.06.2004
Two billion light-years away, galaxy cluster Abell 1689 is one of the most massive objects in the Universe. In this view from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys, Abell 1689...
![На Нептуне все еще весна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/06/30/0001198569/nep2002_hst1pan_c2.preview.jpg)
26.06.2004
In the 1960s spring came to the southern hemisphere of Neptune, the Solar System's outermost gas giant planet. Of course, since Neptune orbits the Sun once every 165 earth-years, it's still springtime for southern Neptune, where each season lasts over four decades.
![Вид планеты Земля с космического корабля #1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/06/25/0001198552/14pssone_scaled_c1.preview.jpg)
25.06.2004
On June 21st, pilot Mike Melvill made a historic flight in the winged craft dubbed SpaceShipOne -- the first private manned mission to space. The spaceship reached an altitude of just over 62 miles (100 kilometers) on a suborbital trajectory, similar to the early spaceflights in NASA's Mercury Program. So, how was the view?
![Галактика внутри Центавра A](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/06/24/0001198522/cena_spitzer_c1.preview.jpg)
24.06.2004
Peering deep inside Centaurus A, the closest active galaxy to Earth, the Spitzer Space Telescope's penetrating infrared cameras recorded this startling vista. About 1,000 light-years across, the twisted cosmic dust cloud apparently shaped like a parallelogram is likely the result of a smaller spiral galaxy falling into the giant Centaurus A.
![Живописный проход Венеры](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/06/23/0001198512/venustransit_cortner.preview.jpg)
23.06.2004
The rare transit of Venus across the face of the Sun earlier this month was one of the better-photographed events in sky history. Both scientific and artistic images have been flooding in from the areas that could see the transit: Europe and much of Asia, Africa, and North America.
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