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Solar System Family Portrait

Чт, Февраль 14, 2019 - 8:30

On Valentine's Day in 1990, cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back one last time to make this first ever Solar System family portrait. The complete portrait is a 60 frame mosaic made from a vantage..

Областной Веговский семинар состоится 21 февраля 2019 г.

Ср, Февраль 13, 2019 - 21:19

Астрономическая школа «Вега» (АШ «Вега») приглашает Ваших представителей принять участие в очередном заседание постоянно..

The Helix Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen

Ср, Февраль 13, 2019 - 8:30

Is the Helix Nebula looking at you? No, not in any biological sense, but it does look quite like an eye. The Helix Nebula is so named because it also appears that you are looking down the axis of a helix.

Plane Crossing a Crescent Moon

Вт, Февраль 12, 2019 - 7:30

No, this is not a good way to get to the Moon. What is pictured is a chance superposition of an airplane and the Moon. The contrail would normally appear white, but the large volume of air toward the setting Sun preferentially knocks..

New Data: Ultima Thule Surprisingly Flat

Пн, Февраль 11, 2019 - 8:30

Ultima Thule is not the object humanity thought that it was last month. When the robotic New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past the distant asteroid Ultima Thule (officially 2014 MU69) in early January, early images showed two circular..

Venus Unveiled

Вс, Февраль 10, 2019 - 8:30

What does Venus look like beneath its thick clouds? These clouds keep the planet's surface hidden from even the powerful telescopic eyes of Earth-bound astronomers. In the early 1990s, though, using imaging radar...

Комета Ивамото и галактика Сомбреро

Сб, Февраль 09, 2019 - 8:30

Красивая зеленоватая кома кометы Ивамото (C/2018 Y1) видна в верхнем левом углу этого телескопического изображения. Фотография была..

Comet Iwamoto and the Sombrero Galaxy

Сб, Февраль 09, 2019 - 8:30

Comet Iwamoto (C/2018 Y1), shows off a pretty, greenish coma at the upper left in this telescopic field of view. Taken on February 4 from the Mount John Observatory, University of Canterbury...

Moon, Four Planets, and Emu

Пт, Февраль 08, 2019 - 8:30

A luminous Milky Way falls toward the horizon in this deep skyscape, starting at the top of the frame from the stars of the Southern Cross and the dark Coalsack Nebula. Captured...

Астрономическая неделя с 11 по 17 февраля 2019 года

Пт, Февраль 08, 2019 - 7:17

На данной неделе 11 февраля Луна (Ф= 0,37+) будет находиться близ Марса и Урана, 12 февраля комета Iwamoto (C/2018 Y1) пройдет севернее Регула, а 13..

Fox Fur, Unicorn, and Christmas Tree

Чт, Февраль 07, 2019 - 8:30

Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas fill this colorful skyscape in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, the complex jumble of cosmic gas and dust...

Moon and Venus Appulse over a Tree

Ср, Февраль 06, 2019 - 8:30

What's that bright spot near the Moon? Venus. About a week ago, Earth's Moon appeared unusually close to the distant planet Venus, an angular coincidence known as an appulse. Similar to a conjunction, which is a coordinate..