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Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins

Вс, Сентябрь 11, 2022 - 8:30

How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets in our Solar System to show them spinning side-by-side..

Galaxy by the Lake

Сб, Сентябрь 10, 2022 - 7:30

This 180 degree panoramic night skyscape captures our Milky Way Galaxy as it arcs above the horizon on a winter's night in August. Near midnight, the galactic center is close to the zenith with the clear waters of Lake Traful, Neuquen,..

Календарь наблюдателя на октябрь 2022 года

Пт, Сентябрь 09, 2022 - 10:40

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

Астрономическая неделя с 12 по 18 сентября 2022 года

Пт, Сентябрь 09, 2022 - 10:34

На данной неделе 14 сентября Луна (Ф= 0,81-) достигнет восходящего узла своей орбиты. В этот же день Луна (Ф= 0,78-) пройдет близ Урана..

Interstellar Voyager

Пт, Сентябрь 09, 2022 - 8:30

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the outer planets of the Solar System. They have become the longest operating and most distant spacecraft from Earth. Both have traveled beyond the heliosphere, the realm..

North America and the Pelican

Чт, Сентябрь 08, 2022 - 7:30

Fans of our fair planet might recognize the outlines of these cosmic clouds. On the left, bright emission outlined by dark, obscuring dust lanes seems to trace a continental shape, lending the popular name North America Nebula to the..

Tarantula Stars R136 from Webb

Ср, Сентябрь 07, 2022 - 8:30

Near the center of a nearby star-forming region lies a massive cluster containing some of the largest and hottest stars known. Collectively known as star cluster NGC 2070, these stars are part of the vast Tarantula Nebula and were..

An Iridescent Pileus Cloud over China

Вт, Сентябрь 06, 2022 - 8:30

Yes, but how many dark clouds have a multicolored lining? Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of..

Carina Cliffs from the Webb Space Telescope

Пн, Сентябрь 05, 2022 - 8:30

Stars created these cliffs. Specifically, the destructive winds and energetic light from the stars in the open cluster NGC 3324 eroded away part of a mountain of dark interstellar dust in the northern part of the Carina Nebula.

Sea and Sky Glows over the Oregon Coast

Вс, Сентябрь 04, 2022 - 8:30

Every step caused the sand to light up blue. That glow was bioluminescence -- a blue radiance that also lights the surf in this surreal scene captured in mid-2018 at Meyer's Creek Beach in Oregon, USA. Volcanic stacks dot the..

Sun and Moon and ISS

Сб, Сентябрь 03, 2022 - 8:30

On August 25 Sun and Moon could both be seen in planet Earth's daytime skies. And so could the International Space Station. The ISS crossed the disk of the waning crescent Moon as seen from Shunyi district, Beijing, China at about 11:02 am..