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Messier 96

Чт, Апрель 14, 2022 - 8:30

Spiral arms seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful, detailed portrait of a beautiful island universe. Of course M96 is a spiral galaxy, and counting the faint arms extending beyond the brighter central region it spans..

Milky Way over Devils Tower

Ср, Апрель 13, 2022 - 8:30

What created Devils Tower? The origin of this extraordinary rock monolith in Wyoming, USA is still debated, with a leading hypothesis holding that it is a hardened lava plume that never reached the surface to become a volcano.

N11: Star Clouds of the LMC

Вт, Апрель 12, 2022 - 8:30

Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and energetic light sculpt one of the largest and most picturesque regions of star formation in the Local Group of Galaxies. Known as N11, the region...

A Space Station Crosses a Busy Sun

Пн, Апрель 11, 2022 - 8:30

Typically, the International Space Station is visible only at night. Slowly drifting across the night sky as it orbits the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) can be seen as a bright spot several times a year from many locations.

Shadows at the Moons South Pole

Вс, Апрель 10, 2022 - 8:30

Was this image of the Moon's surface taken with a microscope? No -- it's a multi-temporal illumination map made with a wide-angle camera. To create it, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft collected...

Mars Saturn Conjunction

Сб, Апрель 09, 2022 - 7:30

Fainter stars in the zodiacal constellation Capricornus are scattered near the plane of the ecliptic in this field of view. The two brightest ones at center aren't stars at all though, but the planets Mars and Saturn.

Hale-Bopp: The Great Comet of 1997

Пт, Апрель 08, 2022 - 8:30

Only twenty-five years ago, Comet Hale-Bopp rounded the Sun and offered a dazzling spectacle in planet Earth's night skies. Digitized from the original astrophoto on 35mm color slide film, this classic image of the Great Comet of 1997 was..

Астрономическая неделя с 11 по 17 апреля 2022 года

Пт, Апрель 08, 2022 - 8:21

На данной неделе 12 апреля произойдет покрытие Луной (Ф= 0,79+) звезды эта Льва (3,5m) при видимости в Сибири и на востоке страны, а 17 апреля..

Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud

Чт, Апрель 07, 2022 - 8:30

Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in the..

Earendel: A Star in the Early Universe

Ср, Апрель 06, 2022 - 8:30

Is Earendel the farthest star yet discovered? This scientific possibility started when the Hubble Space Telescope observed a huge cluster of galaxies. The gravitational lens effectбof this cluster was seen to magnify and distort a..

Seven Sisters versus California

Вт, Апрель 05, 2022 - 8:30

On the upper right, dressed in blue, is the Pleiades. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and most easily visible open clusters on the sky. The Pleiades contains over 3,000 stars, is about..

A Vortex Aurora over Iceland

Пн, Апрель 04, 2022 - 7:30

No, the car was not in danger of being vacuumed into space by the big sky vortex. For one reason, the vortex was really an aurora, and since auroras are created by particles striking the Earth from space, they do not create a vacuum.