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APOD: 2025 April 13 Б An Unusual Hole in Mars

Вс, Апрель 13, 2025 - 8:30

What created this unusual hole in Mars? Actually, there are numerous holes pictured in this Swiss cheese-like landscape, with all-but-one of them showing a dusty, dark, Martian terrain beneath evaporating, light, carbon dioxide ice.

Moon Near the Edge

Сб, Апрель 12, 2025 - 8:30

Most of us watch the Moon at night. But the Moon spends nearly as many daylight hours above our horizon, though in bright daytime skies the lunar disk looks pale and can be a little harder to see.

The ISS Meets Venus

Пт, Апрель 11, 2025 - 7:30

Made with a telescope shaded from bright sunlight by an umbrella, on April 5 a well-planned video captured a crescent Venus shining in clear daytime skies from Shoreline, Washington, USA at 11:57AM Pacific Time. It also caught the

38 Hours in the M81 Group

Чт, Апрель 10, 2025 - 7:30

From a garden on planet Earth, 38 hours of exposure with a camera and small telescope produced this cosmic photo of the M81 galaxy group. In fact, the group's dominant galaxy M81 is near the center of the frame sporting grand spiral arms and..

APOD: 2025 April 9 Б HH 49: Interstellar Jet from Webb

Ср, Апрель 09, 2025 - 8:30

What's at the tip of this interstellar jet? First let's consider the jet: it is being expelled by a star system just forming and is cataloged as Herbig-Haro 49 (HH 49). The star system expelling this jet is not visible -- it is off to..

APOD: 2025 April 8 Б Moon Visits Sister Stars

Вт, Апрель 08, 2025 - 8:30

Sometimes, the Moon visits the Pleiades. Technically, this means that the orbit of our Moon takes it directly in front of the famous Pleiades star cluster, which is far in the distance. The technical...

APOD: 2025 April 7 Б NGC 4414: A Flocculent Spiral Galaxy

Пн, Апрель 07, 2025 - 8:30

How much mass do flocculent spirals hide? The featured image of flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope to help answer this question. Flocculent spirals -- galaxies without well-defined spiral arms..

APOD: 2025 April 6 Б Moonquakes Surprisingly Common

Вс, Апрель 06, 2025 - 8:30

Why are there so many moonquakes? Analyses of seismometers left on the moon during the Apollo moon landings reveal a surprising number of moonquakes occurring within 100 kilometers of the surface. In fact, 62 moonquakes were..

APOD: 2025 April 6 Б Moonquakes Surprisingly Common

Вс, Апрель 06, 2025 - 7:30

A Gargoyles Eclipse

Сб, Апрель 05, 2025 - 8:30

In dramatic silhouette against a cloudy daytime sky over Paris, France, gargoyles cast their monstrous gaze outward from the west facade of Notre Dame Cathedral. Taken on March 29, this telephoto snapshot also captures the dramatic..

Hickson 44 in Leo

Пт, Апрель 04, 2025 - 7:30

Scanning the skies for galaxies, Canadian astronomer Paul Hickson and colleagues identified some 100 compact groups of galaxies, now appropriately called Hickson Compact Groups. The four prominent galaxies seen in this intriguing telescopic..

The Da Vinci Glow

Чт, Апрель 03, 2025 - 7:30

A 26 hour old Moon poses behind the craggy outline of the Italian Dolomites in this twilight mountain and skyscape. The one second long exposure was captured near moonset on March 30. And while...