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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![M82: галактика со сверхгалактическим ветром](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/05/15/0001264587/m82_hubble_960.preview.jpg)
26.03.2012
What's lighting up the Cigar Galaxy? M82, as this irregular galaxy is also known, was stirred up by a recent pass near large spiral galaxy M81. This doesn't fully explain the source of the red-glowing outwardly expanding gas, however.
![NGC 1300: спиральная галактика с перемычкой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/01/09/0001353207/ngc1300_hst_960.preview.jpg)
25.03.2012
Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. This Hubble Space Telescope composite view of the gorgeous island universe is one of the largest Hubble images ever made of a complete galaxy.
![Молодая Луна на руках старой Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/03/24/0001262793/Earthshine_Ghouchkanlu900.preview.jpg)
24.03.2012
Also known as the Moon's ashen glow, Earthshine is Earthlight illuminating the Moon's night side. Taken on Nowruz, the March 20 equinox, from Esfahan, Iran, planet Earth, this telescopic image captures strong Earthshine from an old Moon. The darker earthlit disk is in the arms of a bright sunlit crescent.
![Мессье 9 крупным планом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/03/24/0001262791/m9_hst800.preview.jpg)
23.03.2012
Renown 18th century astronomer Charles Messier described this 9th entry in his famous astronomical catalog as "Nebula, without star, in the right leg of Ophiuchus ...". But Messier 9 (M9) does have stars, known to modern astronomers as a globular cluster of over 300,000 stars within a diameter of about 90 light-years.
![Галактика M95 и сверхновая](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/03/22/0001262731/m95sn2012awBlock900.preview.jpg)
22.03.2012
Barred spiral galaxy M95 is about 75,000 light-years across, comparable in size to our own Milky Way and one of the larger galaxies of the Leo I galaxy group. In fact, it is part of a not quite so famous trio of Leo galaxies with neighbors M96 and M105, about 38 million light-years distant.
![Полярное сияние над Исландией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/03/21/0001262695/auroraiceland_lopez_960.preview.jpg)
21.03.2012
If you see a sky like this -- photograph it. Three nights ago in Iceland, an adventurous photographer (pictured) chanced across a sky full of aurora and did just that. Afterwards, by stitching together five smaller photographs, the entire aurora-lit sky was recreated in this 180-degree panorama taken from VatnajЖkull glacier.
![Эволюция Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/03/20/0001262645/moon-evolution.preview.png)
20.03.2012
What is the history of the Moon? The Moon was likely created from debris expelled when a Mars-sized object violently impacted the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. Just after gravitationally condensing, as imagined above, the glowing-hot surface of the Moon cooled and cracked.
![Группа солнечных пятен AR 1429](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/03/19/0001262574/bigspots_rayego_960.preview.jpg)
19.03.2012
What's that on the Sun? Over the past two weeks, one of the most energetic sunspot regions of recent years crossed the face of the Sun. Active Region 1429, visible above...
![Юпитер и Венера с Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/03/18/0001262548/jupiterpersonvenus_nikodem_960.preview.jpg)
18.03.2012
It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter and Venus was visible last week almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on the planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them. This week the two are still notable, even though Jupiter has sunk below the brighter Venus.
![NGC 2683: спиральная галактика, видимая с ребра](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/03/17/0001262502/ngc2683hager900rc.preview.jpg)
17.03.2012
This elegant island universe is cataloged as NGC 2683. It lies a mere 16 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation Lynx. A spiral galaxy comparable to our own Milky Way, NGC 2683 is seen nearly edge-on in the cosmic vista.
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