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Лунное затмение над небоскребом

Пн, Ноябрь 22, 2021 - 8:30

Почему Луна находится прямо на вершине этого здания? Астрофотографу потребовалось тщательно спланировать съемку. Чтобы..

Lunar Eclipse over a Skyscraper

Пн, Ноябрь 22, 2021 - 8:30

Why is the Moon on top of this building? Planning. It took the astrophotographer careful planning -- including figuring out exactly where to place the camera and exactly when to take the shot -- to create this striking superposition.

An Almost Total Lunar Eclipse

Сб, Ноябрь 20, 2021 - 8:30

Predawn hours of November 19 found the Moon in partly cloudy skies over Cancun, Mexico. Captured in this telephoto snapshot, the lunar disk is not quite entirely immersed in Earth's dark umbral shadow during a long partial lunar eclipse.

NGC 281: Starless with Stars

Пт, Ноябрь 19, 2021 - 8:30

In visible light the stars have been removed from this narrow-band image of NGC 281, a star forming region some 10,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia. Stars were digitally added back to the resulting starless image..

Астрономическая неделя с 22 по 28 ноября 2021 года

Пт, Ноябрь 19, 2021 - 7:21

На данной неделе 26 ноября произойдет покрытие Луной (Ф= 0,56-) звезды эта Льва (3,5m) при видимости на большей части страны

Full Moonlight

Чт, Ноябрь 18, 2021 - 8:30

A photographer in silhouette stands in bright moonlight as the Full Moon rises in this well-planned telephoto image. Of course, the Full Moon is normally the brightest lunar phase. But on November 18/19, the Full Moon's light will be..

NGC 3314: When Galaxies Overlap

Ср, Ноябрь 17, 2021 - 8:30

Why doesn't the nearby galaxy create a gravitational lensing effect on the background galaxy? It does, but since both galaxies are so nearby, the angular shift is much smaller than the angular sizes of the galaxies themselves.

Geminids from Gemini

Вт, Ноябрь 16, 2021 - 8:30

Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Gemini. That is why the major meteor shower in December is known as the Geminids -- because shower meteors all..

Light Pillar over Volcanic Etna

Пн, Ноябрь 15, 2021 - 8:30

What happening above that volcano? Something very unusual -- a volcanic light pillar. More typically, light pillars are caused by sunlight and so appear as a bright column that extends upward above a rising or setting Sun.

How to Identify that Light in the Sky

Вс, Ноябрь 14, 2021 - 8:30

What is that light in the sky? Perhaps one of humanity's more common questions, an answer may result from a few quick observations. For example -- is it moving or blinking?

Rosetta s Comet in Gemini

Сб, Ноябрь 13, 2021 - 8:30

Returning along its 6.4 year orbit, periodic comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) is caught in this telescopic frame from November 7. Sweeping past background stars in the constellation Gemini the comet's dusty tail stretches toward the upper..

M33: The Triangulum Galaxy

Пт, Ноябрь 12, 2021 - 7:30

The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the..