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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Человечество исследует Солнечную систему](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/30/0001286504/ssmissions_frohn_960.preview.jpg)
30.04.2013
What spacecraft is humanity currently using to explore our Solar System? Presently, every inner planet has at least one robotic explorer, while several others are monitoring our Sun, some are mapping Earth's Moon, a few are chasing asteroids and comets, one is orbiting Saturn, and several are even heading out into deep space.
![Млечный Путь и Каменное дерево](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/29/0001286400/stoneyway_lopez_1440.preview.jpg)
29.04.2013
What's that next to the Milky Way? An unusual natural rock formation known as Roque Cinchado or Stone Tree found on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife. A famous icon, Roque Cinchado is likely a dense plug of cooled volcanic magma that remains after softer surrounding rock eroded away.
![Мощный ураган на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/28/0001286336/longstorm_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
28.04.2013
It was one of the largest and longest lived storms ever recorded in our Solar System. First seen in late 2010, the above cloud formation in the northern hemisphere of Saturn started larger than the Earth and soon spread completely around the planet.
![Стерео-Шарп](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/27/0001286295/PIA16925_MtSharpStereo900c.preview.jpg)
27.04.2013
Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze across the floor of Gale crater on Mars. From your vantage point on the deck of the Curiosity Rover Mount Sharp, the crater's 5 kilometer high central mountain looms over the southern horizon.
![Один год на Солнце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/26/0001286155/743348main_SDOTimelapse_Sun_900.preview.jpg)
26.04.2013
Our solar system's miasma of incandescent plasma, the Sun may look a little scary here. The picture is a composite of 25 images recorded in extreme ultraviolet light by the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory between April 16, 2012 and April 15, 2013.
![Лунные затмения](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/25/0001286059/LunarEclipsesVinyaminov900c.preview.jpg)
25.04.2013
The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section and is most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. But the complete cross section is larger than the Moon's angular size in the stages of an eclipse.
![Выжимая мокрое полотенце на орбите](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/25/0001286045/towel.preview.jpg)
24.04.2013
What happens if you wring out a wet towel while floating in space? The water shouldn't fall toward the floor because while orbiting the Earth, free falling objects will appear to float. But will the water fly out from the towel, or what? The answer may surprise you.
![Рентгеновское излучение остатка сверхновой SN 1006](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/23/0001285857/sn1006_chandra_960.preview.jpg)
23.04.2013
What looks like a puff-ball is surely the remains of the brightest supernova in recorded human history. In 1006 AD, it was recorded as lighting up the nighttime skies above areas now known as China, Egypt, Iraq, Italy, Japan, and Switzerland.
![Туманность Конская голова в инфракрасном свете от телескопа имени Хаббла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/06/09/0001363981/horseheadir_hubble_960.preview.jpg)
22.04.2013
While drifting through the cosmos, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud became sculpted by stellar winds and radiation to assume a recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is embedded in the vast and complex Orion Nebula (M42).
![Большой Ковш](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/22/0001285768/dippers_lodriguss_960.preview.jpg)
21.04.2013
Do you see it? This common question frequently precedes the rediscovery of one of the most commonly recognized configurations of stars on the northern sky: the Big Dipper. This grouping of stars is one of the few things that has likely been seen, and will be seen, by every generation.
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