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Ingenuity: First Flight over Mars

Вт, Апрель 20, 2021 - 8:30

What's the best way to explore Mars? Perhaps there is no single best way, but a newly demonstrated method shows tremendous promise: flight. Powered flight has the promise to search vast regions and scout out particularly interesting areas..

The Galactic Center in Infrared

Пн, Апрель 19, 2021 - 8:30

What does the center of our galaxy look like? In visible light, the Milky Way's center is hidden by clouds of obscuring dust and gas. But in this stunning vista, the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared cameras, penetrate much of the..

Rainbow Airglow over the Azores

Вс, Апрель 18, 2021 - 8:30

Why would the sky glow like a giant repeating rainbow? Airglow. Now air glows all of the time, but it is usually hard to see. A disturbance however -- like an approaching storm -- may cause noticeable rippling in the Earth's..

Inside the Flame Nebula

Сб, Апрель 17, 2021 - 8:30

The Flame Nebula is a stand out in optical images of the dusty, crowded star forming regions toward Orion's belt and the easternmost belt star Alnitak, a mere 1,400 light-years away. Alnitak is the bright star at the right edge of this..

Астрономическая неделя с 19 по 25 апреля 2021 года

Пт, Апрель 16, 2021 - 10:46

На данной неделе 19 апреля Меркурий достигнет верхнего соединения с Солнцем, а 20 апреля (02 часа 50 минут UT) спутники Юпитера Европа,..

The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes

Пт, Апрель 16, 2021 - 8:30

Light rays from accretion disks around a pair of orbiting supermassive black holes make their way through the warped space-time produced by extreme gravity in this stunning computer visualization. The simulated accretion disks have...

The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole

Чт, Апрель 15, 2021 - 8:30

Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured by planet Earth's Event Horizon Telescope in the first ever image of a black hole. Giant of the Virgo...

Ударная волна от сверхновой в туманности Карандаш

Ср, Апрель 14, 2021 - 8:30

Эта ударная волна бороздит космическое пространство со скоростью более 500 тысяч километров в час. Она движется вверх на этой

The Pencil Nebula Supernova Shock Wave

Ср, Апрель 14, 2021 - 8:30

This supernova shock wave plows through interstellar space at over 500,000 kilometers per hour. Near the middle and moving up in this sharply detailed color composite, thin, bright, braided filaments are actually long ripples in a cosmic..

Подтвержденная прецессия мюонов остается необъяснимой

Вт, Апрель 13, 2021 - 8:30

Как быстро прецессируют элементарные частицы? Неожиданный ответ на этот кажущийся нелогичным вопрос был..

Confirmed Muon Wobble Remains Unexplained

Вт, Апрель 13, 2021 - 8:30

How fast do elementary particles wobble? A surprising answer to this seemingly inconsequential question came out of Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, USA in 2001, and indicated that the Standard Model of Particle Physics,..

Alnitak and the Flame Nebula

Пн, Апрель 12, 2021 - 8:30

What lights up the Flame Nebula? Fifteen hundred light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears, on the left, like a billowing fire. But fire, the rapid..