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Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter

Вс, Сентябрь 08, 2019 - 8:30

Here comes Jupiter! NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its 53-day, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 11 in early 2018, the eleventh time Juno has..

In Wolf s Cave

Сб, Сентябрь 07, 2019 - 8:31

The mysterious blue reflection nebula found in catalogs as VdB 152 or Ced 201 really is very faint. It lies at the tip of the long dark nebula Barnard 175 in a dusty complex that has also been called Wolf's Cave.

Recycling Cassiopeia A

Пт, Сентябрь 06, 2019 - 8:31

Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back..

Астрономическая неделя с 9 по 15 сентября 2019 года

Пт, Сентябрь 06, 2019 - 6:24

На данной неделе 9 сентября метеорный поток Сентябрьские эпсилон-Персеиды достигает максимума действия (зенитное часовое число..

The Large Cloud of Magellan

Чт, Сентябрь 05, 2019 - 8:30

The 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two fuzzy cloud-like objects easily...

The Spider Nebula in Infrared

Ср, Сентябрь 04, 2019 - 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 on the left is actually an emission nebula labelled...

The Spider Nebula in Infrared

Ср, Сентябрь 04, 2019 - 8:30

Unusual Signal Suggests Neutron Star Destroyed by Black Hole

Вт, Сентябрь 03, 2019 - 8:30

What created this unusual explosion? Three weeks ago, gravitational wave detectors in the USA and Europe -- the LIGO and Virgo detectors -- detected a burst of gravitational radiation that had the oscillating pattern expected when a

The Moon and Jupiter over the Alps

Пн, Сентябрь 02, 2019 - 8:30

What are those bright lights in the sky ahead? When hiking a high mountain pass in northern Italy three weeks ago, a conjunction between our Moon and the distant planet Jupiter was visible as both rose together in the southwest..

M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster

Вс, Сентябрь 01, 2019 - 8:30

Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as dusty as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even..

Spitzer’s Orion

Сб, Август 31, 2019 - 8:30

Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula, an immense stellar nursery some 1,500 light-years away. Spanning about 40 light-years across the region, this infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope...