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Illustration: An Early Quasar

Вт, Февраль 22, 2022 - 8:30

What did the first quasars look like? The nearest quasars are now known to involve supermassive black holes in the centers of active galaxies. Gas and dust that falls toward a quasar glows brightly, sometimes outglowing the entire..

Журнал “Небосвод” за апрель 2022 года

Пн, Февраль 21, 2022 - 11:40

Очередной выпуск журнала для любителей астрономии "Небосвод"

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217

Пн, Февраль 21, 2022 - 8:30

Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in this image..

Aurora Over White Dome Geyser

Вс, Февраль 20, 2022 - 8:30

Sometimes both heaven and Earth erupt. Colorful auroras erupted unexpectedly a few years ago, with green aurora appearing near the horizon and brilliant bands of red aurora blooming high overhead. A bright Moon lit the foreground of this..

Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273

Сб, Февраль 19, 2022 - 8:30

The spiky stars in the foreground of this backyard telescopic frame are well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. But the two eye-catching galaxies lie far beyond the Milky Way, at a distance of over 300 million light-years. Their distorted..

Астрономическая неделя с 21 по 27 февраля 2022 года

Пт, Февраль 18, 2022 - 9:06

На данной неделе 27 февраля Луна (Ф= 0,15-) пройдет южнее Венеры, Марса, кометы P/Kopff (22P) и Весты

Three Clusters in Puppis

Пт, Февраль 18, 2022 - 8:30

Galactic or open star clusters are young. The swarms of stars are born together near the plane of the Milky Way, but their numbers steadily dwindle as cluster members are ejected by galactic tides and gravitational interactions.

Chamaeleon I Molecular Cloud

Чт, Февраль 17, 2022 - 8:30

Dark markings and bright nebulae in this telescopic southern sky view are telltale signs of young stars and active star formation. They lie a mere 650 light-years away, at the boundary of the local bubble and the Chamaeleon molecular..

Молекулярное облако Хамелеон-I

Чт, Февраль 17, 2022 - 7:30

Темные облака и яркие туманности на этом виде южного неба в телескоп являются признаками активного звездообразования и..

V961 Cep: A New Eclipsing Variable with a delta Sct Component

Ср, Февраль 16, 2022 - 14:59

New observations of V961 Cep, an eclipsing star with elliptical orbit (P=7.04 d, V=10.14 m, e=0.03, F0 V+F5 V) revealed that its primary component was a delta Sct variable with the period P=0.0482603 d and a pulsation amplitude of 0.009..

Eiffel Tower Prominence on the Sun

Ср, Февраль 16, 2022 - 8:30

What's that on the Sun? Although it may look like a flowing version of the Eiffel Tower, it is a solar prominence that is actually much bigger -- about the height of Jupiter.

Terminator Moon

Вт, Февраль 15, 2022 - 8:30

What's different about this Moon? It's the terminators. In the featured image, you can't directly see any terminator -- the line that divides the light of day from the dark of night. That's because the image is a digital composite of..