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A Year in Sunsets

Сб, Декабрь 21, 2024 - 8:30

A year in sunsets, from April 2023 to March 2024, track along the western horizon in these stacked panoramic views. The well-planed sequence is constructed of images recorded near the 21st day of the indicated month from the same location..

The Long Night Moon

Пт, Декабрь 20, 2024 - 7:30

On the night of December 15, the Full Moon was bright. Known to some as the Cold Moon or the Long Night Moon, it was the closest Full Moon to the northern winter solstice and the last Full Moon of 2024. This Full Moon was also at a major..

Messier 2

Чт, Декабрь 19, 2024 - 8:30

After the Crab Nebula, this giant star cluster is the second entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous list of things that are not comets. M2 is one of the largest globular star clusters now known to roam the halo of our..

Галактика с полярным кольцом NGC 660

Ср, Декабрь 18, 2024 - 8:30

Что это за странная галактика? Такие редко встречающиеся объекты известны как галактики с полярными кольцами. В галактике NGC..

APOD: 2024 December 18 Б NGC 660: Polar Ring Galaxy

Ср, Декабрь 18, 2024 - 8:30

What kind of strange galaxy is this? This rare structure is known as a polar ring galaxy, and it seems to have two different rings of stars. In this galaxy, NGC 660, one ring...

APOD: 2024 December 17 Б Near to the Heart Nebula

Вт, Декабрь 17, 2024 - 8:30

What excites the Heart Nebula? First, the large emission nebula on the upper left, catalogued as IC 1805, looks somewhat like a human heart. The nebula glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element, hydrogen, but..

Около туманности Сердце

Вт, Декабрь 17, 2024 - 7:30

Что заставляет светиться туманность Сердце? Большая эмиссионная туманность вверху слева, занесенная в каталог как IC 1805, по

APOD: 2024 December 16 Б A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko

Пн, Декабрь 16, 2024 - 7:30

This kilometer high cliff occurs on the surface of a comet. It was discovered on the dark nucleus of Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko (CG) by Rosetta, a robotic spacecraft launched by ESA, which orbited the comet from 2014 to 2016.

APOD: 2024 December 15 Б Geminid Meteors over a Snowy Forest

Вс, Декабрь 15, 2024 - 8:30

Meteors have been flowing out from the constellation Gemini. This was expected, as mid-December is the time of the Geminid Meteor Shower. Pictured here, over two dozen meteors were caught in successively added exposures taken over

Apollo 17 s Moonship

Сб, Декабрь 14, 2024 - 8:30

Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the near vacuum of space. Digitally enhanced and reprocessed, this picture taken from Apollo 17's command module America shows Challenger's..

M51: Tidal Streams and H-alpha Ciffs

Пт, Декабрь 13, 2024 - 8:30

An intriguing pair of interacting galaxies, M51 is the 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog. Perhaps the original spiral nebula, the large galaxy with whirlpool-like spiral structure seen nearly face-on is also cataloged as NGC..

The Light Curves of Two Type II-P Supernovae: 2012ch and 2012fs

Чт, Декабрь 12, 2024 - 17:30

Photometric observations of SNe 2012ch and 2012fs show light curves characteristic of type II-P Supernovae. The interstellar extinction for both SNe was estimated by comparison of their color curves with those for well-studied SNe..