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APOD: 2025 February 17 Б SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California

Пн, Февраль 17, 2025 - 8:30

What's happened to the sky? Last Monday, the photogenic launch plume from a SpaceX rocket launch created quite a spectacle over parts of southern California and Arizona. Looking at times like a giant...

APOD: 2025 February 16 Б Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter

Вс, Февраль 16, 2025 - 7:30

Here comes Jupiter. NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its highly elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 11 in early 2018, the eleventh time Juno passed near Jupiter..

Ложные солнца над Абиско

Сб, Февраль 15, 2025 - 8:30

Кажется, что на этом зимнем пейзаже над горизонтом нависли три солнца. Снимок был сделан 3 февраля во время экспедиции на снегоходах..

Parhelia at Abisko

Сб, Февраль 15, 2025 - 7:30

Three suns seem to hug the horizon in this otherworldly winterscape. But the evocative scene was captured during a February 3rd snowmobile exploration of the mountainous region around Abisko National Park, northern Sweden, planet Earth.

A Cosmic Rose: NGC 2237 in Monoceros

Пт, Февраль 14, 2025 - 8:30

The Rosette Nebula, NGC 2237, is not the only cosmic cloud of gas and dust to evoke the imagery of flowers, but it is probably the most famous. At the edge of a large molecular cloud in Monoceros some 5,000 light years away, the..

Reflections on VdB 31

Чт, Февраль 13, 2025 - 8:30

Riding high in the constellation of Auriga, beautiful, blue VdB 31 is the 31st object in Sidney van den Bergh's 1966 catalog of reflection nebulae. It shares this well-composed celestial still life with dark, obscuring clouds B26, B27, and..

APOD: 2025 February 12 Б Asteroid Bennu Holds the Building Blocks of Life

Ср, Февраль 12, 2025 - 10:30

What can a space rock tell us about life on Earth? NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a careful approach to the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu in October of 2020 to collect surface samples. In September 2023, the robotic spaceship..

APOD: 2025 February 11 Б The Spider and the Fly

Вт, Февраль 11, 2025 - 8:30

Will the spider ever catch the fly? Not if both are large emission nebulas toward the constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga). The spider-shaped gas cloud in the image center is actually an emission nebula...

APOD: 2025 February 10 Б Auroral Hummingbird over Norway

Пн, Февраль 10, 2025 - 8:30

Is this the largest hummingbird ever? Although it may look like a popular fluttering nectarivore, what is pictured is actually a beautifully detailed and colorful aurora, complete with rays reminiscent of feathers. This aurora...

APOD: 2025 February 9 Б Milky Way over the Australian Pinnacles

Вс, Февраль 09, 2025 - 9:30

What strange world is this? Earth. In the foreground of the featured image are the Pinnacles, unusual rock spires in Nambung National Park in Western Australia. Made of ancient sea shells (limestone), how these human-sized

Соединение полумесяцев

Сб, Февраль 08, 2025 - 8:30

Полумесяцы растущей Луны и убывающей Венеры находятся в противоположных углах снимка, сделанного в сумерках с помощью

A Conjunction of Crescents

Сб, Февраль 08, 2025 - 7:30

A waxing crescent Moon and a waning crescent Venus are found at opposite corners of this twilight telephoto field of view. The close conjunction of the two brightest celestial beacons in planet Earth's western evening sky was captured on..