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A Study of 13 Classical Cepheids

Пн, Декабрь 07, 2020 - 12:14

We present our detection of 6 new Classical Cepheids and a photometric study of 7 known Classical Cepheids. We used all observations available for these stars in the ASAS-SN, 1SWASP, ASAS-3, and NSVS online public archives, our..

Mammatus Clouds over Mount Rushmore

Пн, Декабрь 07, 2020 - 8:30

What's that below those strange clouds? Presidents. If you look closely, you may recognize the heads of four former US Presidents carved into famous Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, USA. More obvious in the featured image..

M16: Pillars of Star Creation

Вс, Декабрь 06, 2020 - 8:30

These dark pillars may look destructive, but they are creating stars. This pillar-capturing image of the inside of the Eagle Nebula, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, shows evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from..

Mons Rumker in the Ocean of Storms

Сб, Декабрь 05, 2020 - 8:30

Mons Rumker, a 70 kilometer wide complex of volcanic domes, rises some 1100 meters above the vast, smooth lunar mare known as Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms. Daylight came to the area late last month.

Curly Spiral Galaxy M63

Пт, Декабрь 04, 2020 - 8:30

A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is nearby, about 30 million light-years distant toward the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly 100,000 light-years..

Астрономическая неделя с 7 по 13 декабря 2020 года

Пт, Декабрь 04, 2020 - 7:09

На данной неделе 7 декабря Луна (Ф= 0,5-) покроет астероид Веста при видимости на большей части страны, а 8 декабря максимума действия..

The Antennae Galaxies in Collision

Чт, Декабрь 03, 2020 - 8:30

Sixty million light-years away toward the southerly constellation Corvus, these two large galaxies are colliding. The cosmic train wreck captured in stunning detail in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot takes hundreds of millions of years..

Eye of Moon

Ср, Декабрь 02, 2020 - 8:30

Who's watching who? The featured image of the Moon through a gap in a wall of rock may appear like a giant eye looking back at you. Although, in late October, it took only a single exposure to capture this visual double, it also..

NGC 346: Star Forming Cluster in the SMC

Вт, Декабрь 01, 2020 - 8:30

Are stars still forming in the Milky Way's satellite galaxies? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud's (SMC's) clusters and nebulas, NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured here in the center of a Hubble..

Cygnus Without Stars

Пн, Ноябрь 30, 2020 - 8:30

The sky is filled with faintly glowing gas, though it can take a sensitive camera and telescope to see it. For example, this twelve-degree-wide view of the northern part of the constellation Cygnus reveals a complex array of cosmic clouds of..

Verona Rupes: Tallest Known Cliff in the Solar System

Вс, Ноябрь 29, 2020 - 8:30

Could you survive a jump off the tallest cliff in the Solar System? Quite possibly. Verona Rupes on Uranus' moon Miranda is estimated to be 20 kilometers deep -- ten times the depth of the Earth's Grand Canyon.

NGC 6822: Barnard s Galaxy

Сб, Ноябрь 28, 2020 - 8:30

Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form stars too, like nearby NGC 6822, also known as Barnard's Galaxy.