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3 ATs

Сб, Май 04, 2024 - 8:30

Despite their resemblance to R2D2, these three are not the droids you're looking for. Instead, the enclosures house 1.8 meter Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) at Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert region of Chile.

Астрономическая неделя с 6 по 12 мая 2024 года

Пт, Май 03, 2024 - 12:21

На данной неделе 6 мая наступит максимум действия метеорного потока эта_Аквариды (ZHR= 40) из созвездия Водолея, Луна (Ф= 0,05-) пройдет..

Temperatures on Exoplanet WASP 43b

Пт, Май 03, 2024 - 7:30

A mere 280 light-years from Earth, tidally locked, Jupiter-sized exoplanet WASP-43b orbits its parent star once every 0.8 Earth days. That puts it about 2 million kilometers (less than 1/25th the orbital distance of Mercury) from a small,..

M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy

Чт, Май 02, 2024 - 7:30

Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. The large galaxy of over 100 billion stars has well-defined spiral arms, similar to our own Milky Way.

APOD: 2024 May 1 Б IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula

Ср, Май 01, 2024 - 7:30

To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish. However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia.

APOD: 2024 April 29 Б Comet, Planet, Moon

Пн, Апрель 29, 2024 - 9:30

Three bright objects satisfied seasoned stargazers of the western sky just after sunset earlier this month. The most familiar was the Moon, seen on the upper left in a crescent phase. The rest of the Moon was faintly visible by..

APOD: 2024 April 28 Б Rings Around the Ring Nebula

Вс, Апрель 28, 2024 - 8:30

The Ring Nebula (M57) is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure - a collaborative effort combining data from

All Sky Moon Shadow

Сб, Апрель 27, 2024 - 8:30

If the Sun is up but the sky is dark and the horizon is bright all around, you might be standing in the Moon's shadow during a total eclipse of the Sun. In fact, the all-sky Moon shadow shown in this composited panoramic view was captured

Календарь наблюдателя на май 2024 года

Пт, Апрель 26, 2024 - 11:36

Очередной выпуск ежемесячника, освещающего астрономические явления и небесные тела, доступные для наблюдений невооруженным глазом..

Астрономическая неделя с 29 апреля по 5 мая 2024 года

Пт, Апрель 26, 2024 - 11:32

На данной неделе 3 мая Луна (Ф= 0,23-) пройдет южнее Сатурна (покрытие при видимости в Антарктиде), а 4 мая Луна (Ф= 0,16-) пройдет южнее Нептуна..

Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy

Пт, Апрель 26, 2024 - 8:30

In northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the constellation Leo, Regulus is the spiky star centered in this telescopic field of view.

NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery

Чт, Апрель 25, 2024 - 8:30

Located some 3 million light-years away in the arms of nearby spiral galaxy M33, giant stellar nursery NGC 604 is about 1,300 light-years across. That's nearly 100 times the size of the Milky Way's Orion Nebula, the closest large star..