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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Белое овальное облако на Юпитере от Юноны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/03/01/0001377166/WhiteOval_Juno_960.preview.jpg)
28.02.2017
This storm cloud on Jupiter is almost as large as the Earth. Known as a white oval, the swirling cloud is a high pressure system equivalent to an Earthly anticyclone. The cloud is one of a "string of pearls" ovals south of Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot.
![Четыре изображения квазара вокруг галактики-линзы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/02/27/0001377013/QuadQuasarLens_Hubble_960.preview.jpg)
27.02.2017
An odd thing about the group of lights near the center is that four of them are the same distant quasar. This is because the foreground galaxy -- in the center of the quasar images and the featured image -- is acting like a choppy gravitational lens.
![Грозовое облако суперячейка над Монтаной](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/02/27/0001376948/thundercell_heavey_960.preview.jpg)
26.02.2017
Is that a spaceship or a cloud? Although it may seem like an alien mothership, it's actually a impressive thunderstorm cloud called a supercell. Such colossal storm systems center on mesocyclones -- rotating updrafts that can span several kilometers and deliver torrential rain and high winds including tornadoes.
![Панорама всех планет](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/02/27/0001376949/ElNidoEcliptic500.preview.jpg)
25.02.2017
For 360 degrees, a view along the plane of the ecliptic is captured in this remarkable panorama, with seven planets in a starry sky. The mosaic was constructed using images taken during January 24-26, from Nacpan Beach, El Nido in Palawan, Philippines.
![NGC 3621: далеко за пределами Местной группы галактик](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/02/27/0001376950/NGC3621-HST-ESO-gendler1024.preview.jpg)
24.02.2017
Far beyond the local group of galaxies lies NGC 3621, some 22 million light-years away. Found in the multi-headed southern constellation Hydra, the winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe are loaded with luminous blue star clusters, pinkish starforming regions, and dark dust lanes.
![Семь миров TRAPPIST 1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/06/27/0001385292/ssc2017-trappist1_1024.preview.jpg)
23.02.2017
Seven worlds orbit the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, a mere 40 light-years away. In May 2016 astronomers using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) announced the discovery of three planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system.
![Дафнис и кольца Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/07/06/0001385854/DaphnusRings_Cassini_1080.preview.jpg)
22.02.2017
What's happening to the rings of Saturn? Nothing much, just a little moon making waves. The moon is 8-kilometer Daphnis and it is making waves in the Keeler Gap of Saturn's rings using just its gravity -- as it bobs up and down, in and out.
![Бурная ночь над телескопами Магеллана](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/02/21/0001376523/magellan.preview.png)
21.02.2017
The night sky is always changing. Featured here are changes that occurred over a six hour period in late 2014 June behind the dual 6.5-meter Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
![Почти три хвоста кометы Энке](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/02/27/0001376954/Encke3tails_Hemmerich_960.preview.jpg)
20.02.2017
How can a comet have three tails? Normally, a comet has two tails: an ion tail of charged particles emitted by the comet and pushed out by the wind from...
![Чёрное Солнце и звёзды в обратном цвете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/02/27/0001376955/blacksun_lafferty_960.preview.jpg)
19.02.2017
Does this strange dark ball look somehow familiar? If so, that might be because it is our Sun. In the featured image from 2012, a detailed solar view was captured originally in a very specific color of red light, then rendered in black and white, and then color inverted.
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