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A Mercury Transit Music Video from SDO

Пн, Октябрь 21, 2019 - 7:30

What's that small black dot moving across the Sun? Mercury. Possibly the clearest view of Mercury crossing in front of the Sun in 2016 May was from Earth orbit. The Solar Dynamics Observatory obtained an uninterrupted vista recording it..

Pluto at Night

Вс, Октябрь 20, 2019 - 8:30

The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene, a stunning spacebased view with the Sun 4.9 billion kilometers (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It was captured by far flung New Horizons in July of 2015.

All Female Spacewalk Repairs Space Station

Сб, Октябрь 19, 2019 - 8:30

The failed unit was beyond the reach of the robotic Canadarm2. Therefore, this repair of the International Space Station would require humans. The humans on duty were NASA's Jessica Meir and Christina Koch. This was the fourth..

Interstellar Interloper 2I Borisov

Пт, Октябрь 18, 2019 - 8:30

After the 2017 detecton of 1I/'Oumuamua, comet 2I/Borisov has become the second recognized interstellar interloper. Like 'Oumuamua, Borisov's measured hyperbolic trajectory and speed as it falls toward the Sun confirm that its origin is from..

Астрономическая неделя с 21 по 27 октября 2019 года

Пт, Октябрь 18, 2019 - 6:59

На данной неделе 21 октября наступит максимум действия метеорного потока Ориониды (ZHR= 15), а 24 октября произойдет покрытие астероидом..

Moons of Saturn

Чт, Октябрь 17, 2019 - 8:30

On July 29, 2011 the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera took this snapshot and captured 5 of Saturn's moons, from just above the ringplane. Left to right are small moons Janus and Pandora respectively 179 and 81 kilometers across,

BHB2007: A Baby Binary Star in Formation

Ср, Октябрь 16, 2019 - 8:30

How do binary stars form? To help find out, ESO's Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) recently captured one of the highest resolution images yet taken of a binary star system in formation. Most...

BVI_c Observations of 64 Classical Cepheids

Вт, Октябрь 15, 2019 - 10:44

A total of 9128 B-, V-, and I_c-band photometric measurements were acquired for 64 classical Cepheids in 1982 - 2014. For these stars, 1384 times of maximum light are determined and O-C diagrams constructed based on available

The Galaxy Above

Вт, Октябрь 15, 2019 - 8:30

Have you contemplated your home galaxy lately? If your sky looked like this, perhaps you'd contemplate it more often! The featured picture is actually a composite of two images taken last month from the same location in south Brazil

Andromeda before Photoshop

Пн, Октябрь 14, 2019 - 8:30

What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like? The featured image shows how our Milky Way Galaxy's closest major galactic neighbor really appears in a long exposure through Earth's busy skies and with a digital camera that introduces..

A Stellar Jewel Box: Open Cluster NGC 290

Вс, Октябрь 13, 2019 - 7:30

Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. Like gems in a jewel box, though, the stars of open cluster NGC 290 glitter in a beautiful display of brightness and color. The photogenic cluster, pictured here, was captured in..

Interplanetary Earth

Сб, Октябрь 12, 2019 - 8:30

In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013 Earth was photographed on the same day from two other worlds of the Solar System, innermost planet Mercury and ringed gas giant Saturn. Pictured...