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Parker vs Perseid

Чт, Август 16, 2018 - 8:30

The brief flash of a bright Perseid meteor streaks across the upper right in this composited series of exposures made early Sunday morning near the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.

Launch of the Parker Solar Probe

Ср, Август 15, 2018 - 7:30

When is the best time to launch a probe to the Sun? The now historic answer -- which is not a joke because this really happened this past weekend -- was at night. Night, not only...

M86 in the Central Virgo Cluster

Вт, Август 14, 2018 - 7:30

Is there a bridge of gas connecting these two great galaxies? Quite possibly, but it is hard to be sure. M86 on the upper left is a giant elliptical galaxy near the center of the nearby Virgo Cluster of galaxies.

The Pencil Nebula in Red and Blue

Пн, Август 13, 2018 - 8:30

This shock wave plows through interstellar space at over 500,000 kilometers per hour. Near the top and moving up in this sharply detailed color composite, thin, bright, braided filaments are actually long ripples in a cosmic sheet of..

Meteor before Galaxy

Вс, Август 12, 2018 - 8:30

What's that green streak in front of the Andromeda galaxy? A meteor. While photographing the Andromeda galaxy in 2016, near the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower, a sand-sized rock from deep space crossed right in front of our

Moon, Mars, and Milky Way

Сб, Август 11, 2018 - 8:30

Just two weeks ago, dark skies over the desert in northern Iran held this alluring celestial vista. The dramatic digital mosaic finds the Moon and Mars alongside the Milky Way's dusty rifts, stars, and nebulae.

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,