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Phases of Venus

Чт, Май 21, 2020 - 8:30

Just as the Moon goes through phases, Venus' visible sunlit hemisphere waxes and wanes. This composite of backyard telescopic images illustrates the steady changes for Venus during its current stint as our evening star, as the inner planet..

Moon, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Milk Way

Ср, Май 20, 2020 - 7:30

It is not a coincidence that planets line up. That's because all of the planets orbit the Sun in (nearly) a single sheet called the plane of the ecliptic. When viewed from inside that plane -- as Earth dwellers are likely to do --

Posters of the Solar System

Вт, Май 19, 2020 - 7:30

Would you like a NASA astronomy-exploration poster? You are just one page-print away. Any of the panels you see on the featured image can appear on your wall. Moreover, this NASA page has, typically, several more posters of each..

Journey into the Cosmic Reef

Пн, Май 18, 2020 - 8:30

What would you see if you could fly into the Cosmic Reef? The nebular cloud NGC 2014 appear to some like an ocean reef that resides in the sky, specifically in the LMC, the largest satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy.

A Waterspout in Florida

Вс, Май 17, 2020 - 8:30

What's happening over the water? Pictured here is one of the better images yet recorded of a waterspout, a type of tornado that occurs over water. Waterspouts are spinning columns of rising moist air that typically form over warm..

The Dark River to Antares

Сб, Май 16, 2020 - 8:30

A dark river seems to flow through this sky from the horizon toward colorful clouds near red giant star Antares. Murky looking, the dark river is a dusty nebula obscuring background starlight near the central Milky Way, although the dark dust..

Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82

Пт, Май 15, 2020 - 8:30

These two galaxies are far far away, 12 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear. On the left, with grand spiral arms and bright yellow core is spiral galaxy M81, some 100,000 light-years across. On..

Астрономическая неделя с 18 по 24 мая 2020 года

Пт, Май 15, 2020 - 7:59

На данной неделе 18 мая Луна (Ф= 0,17-) окажется в апогее своей орбиты на расстоянии 405580 км от центра Земли, а долгопериодическая переменная..

Comet Halley vs Comet SWAN

Чт, Май 14, 2020 - 8:30

The pre-dawn hours of May 3rd were moonless as grains of cosmic dust streaked through southern skies above Reunion Island. Swept up as planet Earth plowed through dusty debris streams left behind periodic Comet 1/P Halley, the annual meteor..

Jupiter in Infrared from Gemini

Ср, Май 13, 2020 - 8:30

In infrared, Jupiter lights up the night. Recently, astronomers at the Gemini North Observatory in Hawaii, USA, created some of the best infrared photos of Jupiter ever taken from EarthБs surface, pictured. Gemini...

Lyrid Meteors from the Constellation Lyra

Вт, Май 12, 2020 - 7:31

Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Small Harp (Lyra). That is why the famous meteor shower that peaks every April is known as the Lyrids -- the

Behind Betelgeuse

Пн, Май 11, 2020 - 8:30

What's behind Betelgeuse? One of the brighter and more unusual stars in the sky, the red supergiant star Betelgeuse can be found in the direction of famous constellation Orion. Betelgeuse, however, is actually...