Новости из категории: astronet

APOD: 2025 January 12 Б Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater

Вс, Январь 12, 2025 - 8:30

Whatever hit Mimas nearly destroyed it. What remains is one of the largest impact craters on one of Saturn's smallest round moons. Analysis indicates that a slightly larger impact would have destroyed Mimas entirely.

An Evening Sky Full of Planets

Сб, Январь 11, 2025 - 8:30

Only Mercury is missing from a Solar System parade of planets in this early evening skyscape. Rising nearly opposite the Sun, bright Mars is at the far left. The other naked-eye planets Jupiter, Saturn...

Young Stars, Dark Nebulae

Пт, Январь 10, 2025 - 8:30

An unassuming region in the constellation Taurus holds these dark and dusty nebulae. Scattered through the scene, stars in multiple star systems are forming within their natal Taurus molecular cloud complex some 450 light-years away.

Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273

Чт, Январь 09, 2025 - 8:30

The colorful, spiky stars are in the foreground of this image taken with a small telescope on planet Earth. They lie well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. But the two eye-catching galaxies in the frame lie far beyond the Milky Way, at a..

APOD: 2025 January 8 Б Supernova Remnants Big and Small

Ср, Январь 08, 2025 - 8:30

What happens after a star explodes? A huge fireball of hot gas shoots out in all directions. When this gas slams into the existing interstellar medium, it heats up so much it glows. Two different supernova remnants (SNRs) are..

APOD: 2025 January 7 Б A New Years Aurora and SAR Arc

Вт, Январь 07, 2025 - 8:30

It was a new year, and the sky was doubly red. The new year meant that the Earth had returned to its usual place in its orbit on January 1, a place a few days before its closest approach to the Sun.

APOD: 2025 January 7 Б A New Years Aurora and SAR Arc

Вт, Январь 07, 2025 - 8:30

It was a new year, and the sky was doubly red. The new year meant that the Earth had returned to its usual place in its orbit on January 1, a place a few days before its closest approach to the Sun.

APOD: 2025 January 6 Б Colliding Spiral Galaxies from Webb and Hubble

Пн, Январь 06, 2025 - 7:30

Billions of years from now, only one of these two galaxies will remain. Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart, creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, lanes of dark dust, bursts of..

APOD: 2025 January 5 Б Rocket Launch as Seen from the International Space Station

Вс, Январь 05, 2025 - 8:30

Have you ever seen a rocket launch -- from space? A close inspection of the featured time-lapse video will reveal a rocket rising to Earth orbit as seen from the International Space Station (ISS).

APOD: 2025 January 5 Б Rocket Launch as Seen from the International Space Station

Вс, Январь 05, 2025 - 8:30

Have you ever seen a rocket launch -- from space? A close inspection of the featured time-lapse video will reveal a rocket rising to Earth orbit as seen from the International Space Station (ISS).

Добро пожаловать в перигелий

Сб, Январь 04, 2025 - 8:30

Орбита, по которой Земля обращается вокруг Солнца – не окружность, а эллипс. Ближайшая к Солнцу точка на эллиптической орбите нашей..

Welcome to Perihelion

Сб, Январь 04, 2025 - 7:30

Earth's orbit around the Sun is not a circle, it's an ellipse. The point along its elliptical orbit where our fair planet is closest to the Sun is called perihelion. This year perihelion is today, January 4, at 13:28 UTC, with the Earth..