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Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars

Вс, Май 24, 2020 - 8:30

The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers..

Ghost Fungus to Magellanic Cloud

Сб, Май 23, 2020 - 7:31

Stars shine and satellites glint in this clear, dark, night sky over Wannon Falls Reserve, South West Victoria, Australia. In fact the fuzzy, faint apparition above the tree tops is the only cloud visible, also known as the Large Magellanic..

South of Carina

Пт, Май 22, 2020 - 8:30

With natal dust clouds in silhouette against glowing atomic gas, this colorful and chaotic vista lies within one of the largest star forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy, the Great Carina Nebula.

Календарь наблюдателя на июнь 2020 года

Пт, Май 22, 2020 - 7:11

Очередной выпуск ежемесячника, освещающего астрономические явления и небесные тела,..

Астрономическая неделя с 25 по 31 мая 2020 года

Пт, Май 22, 2020 - 7:07

На данной неделе 25 мая Луна (Ф= 0,10+) пройдет точку максимального склонения к северу от небесного экватора, а 26 мая долгопериодическая..

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..