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Places for OSIRIS REx to Touch Asteroid Bennu

Пн, Декабрь 23, 2019 - 8:30

Where is the best place to collect a surface sample from asteroid Bennu? Launched in 2016, NASA sent the robotic Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) to investigate the..

Solstice Illuminated: A Year of Sky

Вс, Декабрь 22, 2019 - 8:30

Can you find which day is the winter solstice? Each panel shows one day. With 360 movie panels, the sky over (almost) an entire year is shown in time lapse format as recorded by a video camera on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in

Solstice to Solstice Solargraph Timelapse

Сб, Декабрь 21, 2019 - 8:30

The 2019 December Solstice, on the first day of winter in planet Earth's northern hemisphere and summer in the south, is at 4:19 Universal Time December 22. That's December 21 for North America, though. Celebrate with a timelapse..

Late Afternoon on Mars

Пт, Декабрь 20, 2019 - 10:30

Shadows grow long near sunset in this wide panoramic view from the Curiosity rover on Mars. Made with Curiosity's navcam, the scene covers about 200 degrees from north through east to south (left to right), stitched together from frames taken..

Астрономическая неделя с 23 по 29 декабря 2019 года

Пт, Декабрь 20, 2019 - 7:05

На данной неделе 23 декабря Луна (Ф= 0,11-) пройдет близ Марса, а 25 декабря при фазе 0,01- сблизится с Меркурием. 26 декабря наступит новолуние,..

Apollo 17 s Moonship

Чт, Декабрь 19, 2019 - 16:30

Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the near vacuum of space. Digitally enhanced and reprocessed, this picture taken from Apollo 17's command module America shows Challenger's ascent..

Variability types and light elements for several suspected variable stars

Ср, Декабрь 18, 2019 - 14:46

Variability types and light elements for several suspected variable stars

Ср, Декабрь 18, 2019 - 14:46

A Hotspot Map of Neutron Star J0030s Surface

Ср, Декабрь 18, 2019 - 8:30

What do neutron stars look like? Previously these city-sized stars were too small and too far away to resolve. Recently, however, the first maps of the locations and sizes of hotspots on a neutron...

Туманность Конская Голова

Вт, Декабрь 17, 2019 - 8:30

Это необычное облако межзвездной пыли приобрело такую удивительную форму совершенно случайно, благодаря звездным ветрам и..

The Horsehead Nebula

Вт, Декабрь 17, 2019 - 8:30

Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud..

The Magnetic Fields of Spiral Galaxy M77

Пн, Декабрь 16, 2019 - 8:30

Can magnetic fields help tell us how spiral galaxies form and evolve? To find out, the HAWC+ instrument on NASA's airborne (747) SOFIA observatory observed nearby spiral galaxy M77. HAWC+ maps magnetism by observing polarized