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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..

Perijove 16: Passing Jupiter

Вт, Февраль 05, 2019 - 8:30

Watch Juno zoom past Jupiter again. NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its 53-day, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 16, the sixteenth time that Juno..

Henize 70: A Superbubble in the LMC

Пн, Февраль 04, 2019 - 8:30

Massive stars profoundly affect their galactic environments. Churning and mixing interstellar clouds of gas and dust, stars -- most notably those upwards of tens of times the mass of our Sun -- leave their mark on the compositions and

An Airglow Fan from Lake to Sky

Вс, Февраль 03, 2019 - 8:30

Why would the sky look like a giant fan? Airglow. The featured intermittent green glow appeared to rise from a lake through the arch of our Milky Way Galaxy, as captured during 2015 next to Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA.

LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion

Сб, Февраль 02, 2019 - 8:30

The silhouette of an intriguing dark nebula inhabits this cosmic scene. Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only easily seen in long telescopic exposures of the region.

Аннотации основных статей журнала «Земля и Вселенная» № 6, 2018.

Пт, Февраль 01, 2019 - 14:18

Twin Galaxies in Virgo

Пт, Февраль 01, 2019 - 8:30

Spiral galaxy pair NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 share this sharp cosmic vista with lonely elliptical galaxy NGC 4564. All are members of the large Virgo Galaxy Cluster. With their classic spiral arms, dust lanes, and star clusters, the..

Астрономическая неделя с 4 по 10 февраля 2019 года

Пт, Февраль 01, 2019 - 7:18

На данной неделе долгопериодическая переменная звезда R Треугольника достигнет 4 февраля максимума блеска (5m). 5 февраля произойдет..

Sharpless 308: Star Bubble

Чт, Январь 31, 2019 - 8:30

Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major) and covers slightly more of the sky than a..

Аннотации основных статей журнала «Земля и Вселенная» № 5, 2018 г.

Ср, Январь 30, 2019 - 13:34

Wide Field View of Great American Eclipse

Ср, Январь 30, 2019 - 7:30

Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible. Normally overwhelmed by the bright solar disk, the expansive corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, is an alluring sight.

Ultima Thule from New Horizons

Вт, Январь 29, 2019 - 7:30

How do distant asteroids differ from those near the Sun? To help find out, NASA sent the robotic New Horizons spacecraft past the classical Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, the farthest asteroid yet visited by a..