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Mons Rumker in the Ocean of Storms

Сб, Декабрь 05, 2020 - 8:30

Mons Rumker, a 70 kilometer wide complex of volcanic domes, rises some 1100 meters above the vast, smooth lunar mare known as Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms. Daylight came to the area late last month.

Curly Spiral Galaxy M63

Пт, Декабрь 04, 2020 - 8:30

A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is nearby, about 30 million light-years distant toward the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly 100,000 light-years..

Астрономическая неделя с 7 по 13 декабря 2020 года

Пт, Декабрь 04, 2020 - 7:09

На данной неделе 7 декабря Луна (Ф= 0,5-) покроет астероид Веста при видимости на большей части страны, а 8 декабря максимума действия..

The Antennae Galaxies in Collision

Чт, Декабрь 03, 2020 - 8:30

Sixty million light-years away toward the southerly constellation Corvus, these two large galaxies are colliding. The cosmic train wreck captured in stunning detail in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot takes hundreds of millions of years..

Eye of Moon

Ср, Декабрь 02, 2020 - 8:30

Who's watching who? The featured image of the Moon through a gap in a wall of rock may appear like a giant eye looking back at you. Although, in late October, it took only a single exposure to capture this visual double, it also..

NGC 346: Star Forming Cluster in the SMC

Вт, Декабрь 01, 2020 - 8:30

Are stars still forming in the Milky Way's satellite galaxies? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud's (SMC's) clusters and nebulas, NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured here in the center of a Hubble..

Cygnus Without Stars

Пн, Ноябрь 30, 2020 - 8:30

The sky is filled with faintly glowing gas, though it can take a sensitive camera and telescope to see it. For example, this twelve-degree-wide view of the northern part of the constellation Cygnus reveals a complex array of cosmic clouds of..

Verona Rupes: Tallest Known Cliff in the Solar System

Вс, Ноябрь 29, 2020 - 8:30

Could you survive a jump off the tallest cliff in the Solar System? Quite possibly. Verona Rupes on Uranus' moon Miranda is estimated to be 20 kilometers deep -- ten times the depth of the Earth's Grand Canyon.

NGC 6822: Barnard s Galaxy

Сб, Ноябрь 28, 2020 - 8:30

Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form stars too, like nearby NGC 6822, also known as Barnard's Galaxy.

Chang e 5 Mission Launch

Пт, Ноябрь 27, 2020 - 8:30

This Long March-5 rocket blasted off from the Wenchang launch site in southernmost Hainan province on Tuesday November 24, at 4:30 am Beijing Time, carrying China's Chang'e-5 mission to the Moon. The lunar landing mission is named for the..