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Little Planet to Exoplanets

Сб, Сентябрь 14, 2019 - 8:30

Of course this little planet is really planet Earth in a digitally stitched 360 x 180 degree mosaic captured high in the Chilean Atacama desert. The seemingly large domes house the 1-meter diameter telescopes of the SPECULOOS Southern..

A Harvest Moon

Пт, Сентябрь 13, 2019 - 8:30

Famed in festival, story, and song the best known full moon is the Harvest Moon. For northern hemisphere dwellers that's a traditional name of the closest full moon to the September equinox. In most North America time zones this year's..

Астрономическая неделя с 16 по 22 сентября 2019 года

Пт, Сентябрь 13, 2019 - 7:13

На данной неделе 16 сентября долгопериодическая переменная звезда R Кассиопеи достигнет максимума блеска (6m), 18 сентября Сатурн пройдет..

The Iris Nebula in a Field of Dust

Чт, Сентябрь 12, 2019 - 8:30

These cosmic dust clouds drift some 1,300 light-years away along the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus. The beautiful Iris Nebula, also known as NGC 7023, blossoms at the upper left. Not the only nebula in the sky to evoke..

IC 1805: The Heart Nebula

Ср, Сентябрь 11, 2019 - 7:31

What energizes the Heart Nebula? First, the large emission nebula dubbed IC 1805 looks, in whole, like a human heart. The nebula glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element: hydrogen. The red glow and the..

Pluto in True Color

Вт, Сентябрь 10, 2019 - 8:30

What color is Pluto, really? It took some effort to figure out. Even given all of the images sent back to Earth when the robotic New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto in 2015, processing these multi-spectral frames to..

M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

Пн, Сентябрь 09, 2019 - 8:30

How far can you see? The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy, over two million light-years away. Without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy appears as an unremarkable,..

Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter

Вс, Сентябрь 08, 2019 - 8:30

Here comes Jupiter! NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its 53-day, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 11 in early 2018, the eleventh time Juno has..

In Wolf s Cave

Сб, Сентябрь 07, 2019 - 8:31

The mysterious blue reflection nebula found in catalogs as VdB 152 or Ced 201 really is very faint. It lies at the tip of the long dark nebula Barnard 175 in a dusty complex that has also been called Wolf's Cave.

Recycling Cassiopeia A

Пт, Сентябрь 06, 2019 - 8:31

Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back..

Астрономическая неделя с 9 по 15 сентября 2019 года

Пт, Сентябрь 06, 2019 - 6:24

На данной неделе 9 сентября метеорный поток Сентябрьские эпсилон-Персеиды достигает максимума действия (зенитное часовое число..

The Large Cloud of Magellan

Чт, Сентябрь 05, 2019 - 8:30

The 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two fuzzy cloud-like objects easily...