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NGC 1360: The Robin s Egg Nebula

Пт, Май 11, 2018 - 8:30

This pretty cosmic cloud lies some 1,500 light-years away, it shape and color reminiscent of a blue robin's egg. It spans about 3 light-years, nested securely within the boundaries of the southern constellation Fornax.

Galaxies in the River

Чт, Май 10, 2018 - 8:30

Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy practices galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that get too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity. In fact, the practice...

Galaxies in the River

Чт, Май 10, 2018 - 7:30

The Red Rectangle Nebula from Hubble

Ср, Май 09, 2018 - 8:30

How was the unusual Red Rectangle nebula created? At the nebula's center is an aging binary star system that surely powers the nebula but does not, as yet, explain its colors. The unusual...

The Observable Universe

Вт, Май 08, 2018 - 8:30

How far can you see? Everything you can see, and everything you could possibly see, right now, assuming your eyes could detect all types of radiations around you -- is the observable universe. In visible...

The Unusual Boulder at Tychos Peak

Пн, Май 07, 2018 - 8:30

Why is there a large boulder near the center of Tycho's peak? Tycho crater on the Moon is one of the easiest features to see, visible even to the unaided eye (inset, lower right). But at the center of Tycho (inset, upper left) is a..

Метеоры, самолеты и Галактика над Брайс-каньоном

Вс, Май 06, 2018 - 7:30

Иногда виды земли и неба бывают особенно прекрасными. На переднем плане этого пейзажа запечатлен Брайс-каньон в американском..

Meteors, Planes, and a Galaxy over Bryce Canyon

Вс, Май 06, 2018 - 7:30

Sometimes land and sky are both busy and beautiful. The landscape pictured in the foreground encompasses Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA, famous for its many interesting rock structures eroded over millions of years.

Stickney Crater

Сб, Май 05, 2018 - 8:30

Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in 1877.

Астрономическая неделя с 7 по 13 мая 2018 года

Пт, Май 04, 2018 - 17:20

На данной неделе Луна (Ф= 0,56-) достигнет нисходящего узла своей орбиты (7 мая), а 8 мая астероид Евномия окажется в противостоянии с..

The View Toward M101

Пт, Май 04, 2018 - 8:30

Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. About 170,000 light-years across, this galaxy is enormous, almost twice the size of our own Milky Way..

Opposite the Setting Sun

Чт, Май 03, 2018 - 7:30

On April 30, a Full Moon rose opposite the setting Sun. Its yellowish moonglow silhouettes a low tree-lined ridge along Lewis Mountain in this northeastern Alabama skyscape. Sharing the telephoto field-of-view opposite the Sun are..