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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![M16: Звезды вылупляются из орлиных яиц](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/01/03/0001173945/pillars3_hst_big.preview.jpg)
24.09.2000
Newborn stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula. This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, shows evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of molecular hydrogen gas and dust. The giant pillars are light years in length and are so dense that
![Равная ночь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163929/sun_sts68_big.preview.jpg)
23.09.2000
Yesterday the Sun crossed the celestial equator heading south, marking the Equinox -- the first day of Autumn in the northern hemisphere and Spring in the south. Equinox means equal night and with the Sun on the celestial equator, Earthlings will experience 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
![Шаровое звездное скопление](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162267/m55_mochejska_big.preview.jpg)
22.09.2000
The fifty-fifth entry in Charles Messier's catalog, M55 is a large and lovely globular cluster of around 100,000 stars. Only 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, M55 appears to earth-bound observers to be nearly 2/3 the size of the full moon.
![Система XZ Tauri пускает газовый пузырь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162408/xztauri_hst_big.preview.jpg)
21.09.2000
Why is the binary star system XZ Tauri emitting a hot bubble of expanding gas? Although astronomers can only presently speculate, the Hubble Space Telescope clearly documents this unusual behavior in three dramatic photographs over the past five years.
![Неуклюжая спиральная галактика NGC 3184](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162458/ngc3184_kelly_big.preview.jpg)
20.09.2000
NGC 3184 is a large spiral galaxy with a small nucleus and long sprawling spiral arms. Although NGC 3184 contains hundreds of billions of stars, the blue color of its spiral arms comes mostly from relatively few bright young blue stars.
![M17: Звездная фабрика туманности Омега](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162079/m17_ntt_big.preview.jpg)
19.09.2000
In the depths of the dark clouds of dust and molecular gas known as M17, stars continue to form. Visible in the above recently released representative-color photograph of M17 by the New Technology Telescope are clouds so dark that they appear almost empty of near infrared light.
![Сближение с Международной космической станцией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163928/iss_sts106_big.preview.jpg)
18.09.2000
Last Monday the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis took in this view as they approached the developing International Space Station (ISS). From top to bottom, the astronauts saw a station currently consisting of the Progress supply module, the Zvezda service module, the Zarya cargo module, and the Unity connecting module.
![Полярное сияние на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162422/saturnaurora_hst_big.preview.jpg)
17.09.2000
Girdling the second largest planet in the Solar System, Saturn's Rings are one of the most spectacular sights for earthbound telescopes. This image from the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope's STIS instrument, offers a striking view of another kind of ring around Saturn - pole encircling rings of ultraviolet aurora.
![Земля в рентгеновских лучах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162391/earthxray_polar_big.preview.jpg)
16.09.2000
Above is a picture of the Earth in x-rays, taken in March of 1996 from the orbiting Polar satellite. Most of the planet is dark with superposed continent and coordinate grids, while the bright x-ray emission near the north pole is shown in red. Why does the Earth have an x-ray glow?
![Северное сияние над Западным Техасом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162436/aurtex_grohusko_big.preview.jpg)
15.09.2000
The aurora borealis, or northern lights, are not a common sight in the southwestern United States. But a strong solar coronal mass ejection in early August triggered geomagnetic storms and aurora which were widely reported, even under west Texas skies.
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