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Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744

Пт, Август 10, 2018 - 8:30

Beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo and appears as only a faint, extended object in small..

Астрономическая неделя с 13 по 19 августа 2018 года

Пт, Август 10, 2018 - 8:16

На данной неделе 14 августа Луна (Ф= 0,15+) пройдет близ Венеры (это отличная возможность найти планету на дневном небе невооруженным..

Red Planet Red Moon and Mars

Чт, Август 09, 2018 - 8:30

Mars is also known as The Red Planet, often seen with a reddish tinge in dark night skies. Mars shines brightly at the upper left of this gorgeous morning twilight view from Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, but the Moon and planet..

Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower

Ср, Август 08, 2018 - 8:30

Where do Perseid meteors come from? Mostly small bits of stony grit, Perseid meteoroids were once expelled from Comet Swift-Tuttle and continue to follow this comet's orbit as they slowly disperse. The featured animation depicts the..

Eclipsed Moon and Mars over Mountains

Вт, Август 07, 2018 - 8:30

There is something unusual about this astronomically-oriented photograph. It's not obvious -- it was discovered only during post-processing. It is not the Moon, although capturing the Moon rising during a total lunar eclipse is quite an..

Live: Cosmic Rays from Minnesota

Пн, Август 06, 2018 - 8:30

Cosmic rays from outer space go through your body every second. Typically, they do you no harm. The featured image shows some of these fast moving particles as streaks going through Fermilab's NOvA Far Detector located in Ash River,

Trapezium: At the Heart of Orion

Вс, Август 05, 2018 - 8:30

Near the center of this sharp cosmic portrait, at the heart of the Orion Nebula, are four hot, massive stars known as the Trapezium. Gathered within a region about 1.5 light-years in radius, they dominate the core of the dense Orion Nebula..

Central Cygnus Skyscape

Сб, Август 04, 2018 - 8:30

Supergiant star Gamma Cygni lies at the center of the Northern Cross, famous asterism in the constellation Cygnus the Swan. Known by its proper name, Sadr, the bright star also lies at the center...

Central Lunar Eclipse

Пт, Август 03, 2018 - 8:30

Reddened by scattered sunlight, the Moon in the center is passing through the center of Earth's dark umbral shadow in this July 27 lunar eclipse sequence. Left to right the three images are from the start, maximum, and end to 103 minutes of..

Астрономическая неделя с 6 по 12 августа 2018 года

Пт, Август 03, 2018 - 8:12

На данной неделе (насыщенной астрономическими явлениями) 6 августа Луна покроет Альдебаран при фазе 0,28- и при видимости в северных..

Eclipse over the Gulf of Poets

Чт, Август 02, 2018 - 8:30

The total phase of the July 27 lunar eclipse lasted for an impressive 103 minutes. That makes it the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century. The Moon passed through the center of Earth's shadow while the Moon was near apogee,..

11 августа 2018: VI городской научно-просветительский фестиваль «Пущинские Персеиды» (День открытых

Ср, Август 01, 2018 - 15:43

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