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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Летучие мыши и безжизненная Луна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/12/0001199107/craters_ap17_big.preview.jpg)
31.10.1998
This picture, taken as the Apollo 17 astronauts orbited the Moon in 1972, depicts the stark lunar surface around the Eratosthenes and Copernicus craters. Images of a Moon devoid of life are familiar to denizens of the space age.
![Джон Гленн: запуск Дискавери](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/12/0001199105/discodawn_nasa_big.preview.jpg)
30.10.1998
At left, the Space Shuttle Discovery waits in darkness on Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B. At right, on Thursday October 29, Discovery blasts through a bright afternoon sky returning Senator John Glenn to space over 36 years after he became the first American in orbit.
![Джон Гленн: от Дружбы 7 до Дискавери](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/12/0001199103/johnglenn62_nasa.preview.jpg)
29.10.1998
Rehearsing for his historic flight on February 20, 1962, Mercury program astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works in a cramped training capsule preparing for a few hours' voyage through space. Dubbed Friendship...
![NGC 6210: Черепаха в планетарной туманности](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/12/0001199101/ngc6210_hst_big.preview.jpg)
28.10.1998
A Turtle in Space? Planetary nebula NGC 6210 may look like a giant space turtle, but it is actually much more massive and violent. Fortunately, this gas cloud in Hercules lies about 6500 light years away.
![Генриетта Ливитт изучает звезды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/12/0001199099/leavitt_aavso_sml.preview.jpg)
27.10.1998
Humanity's understanding of the relative brightness and variability of stars was revolutionized by the work of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921). Working at Harvard College Observatory, Leavitt precisely calibrated the photographic magnitudes of 47 stars to which all other stars could be compared.
![Ионный двигатель для Глубокого космоса 1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/12/0001199097/ion_jpl.preview.jpg)
26.10.1998
Space travel entered the age of the ion drive Saturday with the launch of Deep Space 1, a NASA mission designed primarily to test new technologies. Deep Space 1 is bound for asteroid 1992 KD in July 1999.
![Звездное скопление Плеяды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/09/0001192234/pleiades_uks.preview.gif)
25.10.1998
It is the most famous star cluster on the sky. The Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters.
![И восходит солнце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/12/0001199095/sunrise_sts47.preview.gif)
24.10.1998
Sunrise seen from low Earth orbit by the shuttle astronauts can be very dramatic indeed ( and the authors apologize to Hemingway for using his title!). In this breathtaking view, the Sun is just visible...
![Сейфертовская галактика NGC 7742](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/12/0001199093/ngc7742_hst_big.preview.jpg)
23.10.1998
This might resemble a fried egg you've had for breakfast, but it's actually much larger. In fact, ringed by blue-tinted star forming regions and faintly visible spiral arms, the yolk-yellow center of this face-on spiral galaxy, NGC 7742, is about 3,000 light-years across.
![Юпитер: столкновение штормов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/11/0001199086/whiteoval_gal.preview.jpg)
22.10.1998
Sometime in February, two of three long-lived Jovian storm systems known as "white ovals" apparently collided and merged -- forming what is now likely the second largest storm in the Solar System, after the famous Great Red Spot.
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