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Comet NEOWISE over the Swiss Alps

Ср, Июль 15, 2020 - 8:30

Comet NEOWISE has been wowing photographers around much of the world during dawn and dusk, at the margins of day and night. For the most northern residents of planet Earth, however, the comet circles the North Star and never sets.

Comet NEOWISE over Stonehenge

Вт, Июль 14, 2020 - 8:30

Have you ever seen a comet? Tonight -- and likely the next few nights -- should be a good chance. Go outside just at sunset and look to your northwest. The lower your horizon, the better. Binoculars may help, but if your sky is..

Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea

Пн, Июль 13, 2020 - 8:30

This sight was worth getting out of bed early. Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) has been rising before dawn during the past week to the delight of northern sky enthusiasts awake that early. Up before...

Comet CG Creates Its Dust Tail

Вс, Июль 12, 2020 - 7:30

Where do comet tails come from? There are no obvious places on the nuclei of comets from which the jets that create comet tails emanate. One of the best images of emerging jets...

The Tails of Comet NEOWISE

Сб, Июль 11, 2020 - 8:30

Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) is now sweeping through northern skies. Its developing tails stretch some six degrees across this telescopic field of view, recorded from Brno, Czech Republic before daybreak on July 10. Pushed out by the..

Comet NEOWISE from the ISS

Пт, Июль 10, 2020 - 8:30

Rounding the Sun on July 3rd and currently headed for the outer Solar System, Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) has been growing brighter in the predawn skies of planet Earth. From low Earth orbit...

Астрономическая неделя с 13 по 19 июля 2020 года

Пт, Июль 10, 2020 - 8:22

На данной неделе 14 июля Юпитер вступит в противостояние с Солнцем. Всю неделю имеет место парад планет, а левее яркой звезды Капелла из..

Noctilucent NEOWISE

Чт, Июль 09, 2020 - 8:30

These silvery blue waves washing over a tree-lined horizon in the eastern French Alps are noctilucent clouds. From high in planet Earth's mesosphere, they reflect sunlight in this predawn skyscape taken on July 8. This summer, the..

Mercurys Sodium Tail

Ср, Июль 08, 2020 - 8:30

What is that fuzzy streak extending from Mercury? Long exposures of our Solar System's innermost planet may reveal something unexpected: a tail. Mercury's thin atmosphere contains small amounts of sodium that glow when excited by..

Comet NEOWISE over Lebanon

Вт, Июль 07, 2020 - 8:30

A comet has suddenly become visible to the unaided eye. Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered in late March and brightened as it reached its closest approach to the Sun, inside the orbit of Mercury, late last week.

M43: Dust, Gas, and Stars in the Orion Nebula

Пн, Июль 06, 2020 - 8:30

Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Orion Nebula Arguably the most famous of all astronomy nebulas, the Great Nebula in Orion is an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away.

Saturns Northern Hexagon

Вс, Июль 05, 2020 - 7:30

Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure. Originally discovered during the Voyager flybys of Saturn in the 1980s, nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System.